The IGU is delighted to announce that our First V-P, Professor Iain Hay, has been elected as one of the American Association of Geographers Class of 2021 Fellows. The AAG Fellows programme, started in 2018, recognises geographers who have made significant contributions to advancing geography. Dr. Iain Hay is Matthew Flinders Distinguished Emeritus Professor of [...]
14th January is World Logic Day. In association with the International Council for Philosophy and Human Sciences (CIPSH), IGU favours the practice of geographical investigation on the principles of reasoning and strongly supports the celebration of the principles that World Logic Day represents. Despite its undeniable relevance to the development of knowledge, sciences and technologies, [...]
The International Geographical Union recently held a most successful International Workshop on Geography and Sustainability from November 23rd to 24th 2021. The workshop theme was “Geography of the Anthropocene: Transforming our world for sustainable development”, which aimed to present the latest research progress on geography and sustainability, provide a valuable contribution to transforming our world [...]
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The 2021 International Association for Promoting Geoethics has awarded the Geoethics Medal to IGU Vice-President Iain Hay. The citation reads as follows: Iain Hay has pioneered the field of geographies of domination and oppression in a lifetime’s work acknowledged by a rare Doctor of Letters (University of Canterbury 2009). His research unmasks unintended and insidious [...]
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At the recent General Assembly (virtual) of the International Science Council (ISC), geographer Professor Maria Paradiso was nominated by the IGU and subsequently elected as a member of the ISC Governing Board. Professor Paradiso is a long-standing supporter of the IGU and has worked incredibly hard over many years to promote our aims and objectives. [...]
As the world begins to gather in its continuing efforts to tackle the climate and nature crises, the global geography community, co-ordinated by the IGU, the Scottish Royal Geographical Society, the Royal Geographical Society, and the Royal Canadian Geographical Society, is calling on world leaders to redouble their efforts and place the protection of nature [...]
Background The world is changing at an accelerating pace because of the increased human pressure on the earth’s resources and the consequent climate crises. The 2019 IPBES report indicated that 14 of the 18 categories of nature’s contributions to people had declined globally since 1970. The 2021 UN report on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) noted [...]
A BBC news report (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-58409267) includes images that provide a graphic picture of the damage caused by Hurricane Ida that left huge areas of the southeastern and eastern United States devastated. Satellite images taken by Maxar on Tuesday show extensive damage along the Gulf Coast and southern Louisiana following the fifth strongest storm to ever [...]
