Dear Colleagues The IGU Commissions: Local and Regional Development and Land Use and Land Cover Change together with the Bulgarian National Science Program "Environmental Protection and Reduction of Risks of Adverse Events and Natural Disasters" are organising a face-to-face seminar, entitled "Local and Regional Aspects of Natural Hazards" with colleagues prior to the 34th IGU [...]
Dear IGU Colleagues The International Geographical Union has issued a public statement (English and French) in which we highlight our position in relation to academic freedom. Although academic freedom is compromised in a number of countries around the world, we have taken the decision, at the request of the chair of the French National Committee, [...]
Dear Colleagues, As planning for an in person IGC 2021 kicked into high gear last year, we were hopeful that delaying the meeting to August 2021 would allow an opportunity for LOC and IGU and its participants to safely reconnect at Istanbul University in 16-20 August 2021. After having detailed meetings with the IGU Board [...]
Dear Colleagues Greetings from the GeoNight organising committee (CNFG, EUGEO, IGU). This year we are hoping to organise many events across the globe on Friday April 9th, the date of GeoNight. As always, all countries are free to participate. The main goal of GeoNight events is to promote geography and geographers to the general public [...]
Dear IGU Colleagues Series Editors Professor Iain Hay and Michael Meadows announce the forthcoming publication of the first book in ‘The International Geographical Union Series on Contemporary Geographies’. The volume, entitled Geographies of Cosmopolitanism is by Professor Barney Warf of the University of Kansas. Invigorating and timely, this book provides a thorough overview of the geographies of [...]
Dear Colleagues I am pleased sending you the call for application for the CIPSH Chair of 2021. Enclosed please find the announcement of the calls with detailed information regarding the application procedures. The deadline for application is March 1, please send all application materials electronically to the CIPSH email address (emailcipsh@icphs.org) Hsiung Ping-chen 熊秉真 Secretary [...]
Dear IGU Colleagues “Warning: An e-mail message containing an attachment link (.XLSX file) using Email Id similar to Professor R. B Singh (Secretary General and Treasurer, IGU) is being circulated known to be used by "phishers" to attempt to steal your password or other sensitive information. Treat this message with caution and do not click [...]
Invitation for Chapter Book Title: RESEARCH ISSUES AND ACHIEVEMENTS OF MODERN GEOGRAPHY Editors: Jerzy Bański, M. Meadows and RB Singh Chapter structure 1. Introduction 2. Subject matter, objectives and scope of research Topics undertaken as part of the research issue, characteristics of the research subject, identification of basic objectives and examples of research questions and [...]
The 2nd national forum on geographic modeling and simulation（and the launch ceremony of the training course on domestic geographical analysis models) was successfully completed The 2nd national forum on geographic modeling and simulation (and the launch ceremony of the training course on domestic geographical analysis models) was successfully held in Nanjing Normal University during Jan [...]
Dear IGU Community of Geographers The current IGU Executive Committee (EC) took office following the virtual General Assembly in August 2020. Since then, the EC has held several online meetings, one of which we devoted to refining an actionable Strategy to guide the IGU through the next four years, during which time we will celebrate [...]
