Sustainable Cities Website: https://geosus.iseis.cuhk.edu.hk/ Date: November 27-29, 2026 Location: The Chinese University of Hong Kong, HK, China The International Workshop on Geography and Sustainability 2026 aims to address the challenges associated with sustainable cities development by interdisciplinary research methods.
Dear Colleagues We are delighted to update you on the latest information about the journal impact factor (JIF). On June 17, this year's Journal Citation Reports were released, and JIF 2025 of GeoSus reaches 9.8, ranking Q1 in the following categories: 3/71 in Geography, Physical (Percentile 96.5); 19/114 in Green & Sustainable Science & Technology [...]
Italian Geographical Society Villa Celimontana – Mattei Palace Via della Navicella, 12 – Roma [Rome] – Italia 3rd – 5th June 2026 In close cooperation with Italian Geographic Military Institute and Joint ICA-IGU Commission on Toponymy Click to download detail programme
Dear IGU Colleagues First of all, I would like to thank the voters for their very high turnout in this election, which demonstrates the vitality of our community. I would also like to thank the election committee chaired by Prof. Mike Meadows, alongside Joos D., vice-chair, and Antoine Le Blanc, technical officer. The innovative voting [...]
Following the recommendation of the IGU Honors and Awards Committee, chaired by former IGU Vice President Professor Joos Droogleever Fortuijn, we are delighted to announce the winners of our 2026 awards. Congratulations to our worth winners! The IGU Lauréats d’honneur, which recognizes individuals who have achieved particular distinction, or who have rendered outstanding service in the [...]
UN-GGIM 3rd World Geospatial Information Congress in November 2026 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia Visit Website: https://ggim.un.org/3UNWGIC/
International Summer School on Geography and Sustainability 2026 Frontiers in Telecoupling and Metacoupling Research for Addressing Global Sustainability Challenges Date: August 9-16, 2026 Location: Beijing Normal University, China & online Website: http://igu-geosus.org/pages/telecoupling-summer-school.html Language: English Target audience: Master's students, PhD students, Postdocs, and other researchers. 1 Organization Host: Beijing Normal University (BNU) Organizer: Faculty of Geographical [...]
IGU CDES Regional Conference Geographies of America and the transformation of economic spaces in global context September 9 to 11, 2026, Fortaleza, Brazil Key dates • Deadline for Abstracts: May 15, 2026 • Notification about acceptance: May 29, 2026 • Registration closes: July 1, 2026 • Preliminary Program: mid-July 2026 • Final Program: mid-August 2026 [...]
The health and sustainability of left behind places and distressed neighbourhoods: advances through applied geography Applied Geography Commission of the International Geographical Union (IGU) themed conference The deadline for abstracts has been extended to April 16th. Date: September 9-11, 2026 Place: Department of Human Geography, Uppsala University, Sweden This symposium brings together scholars in population geography [...]
10th Anniversary Celebration of the 2016 International Year of Global Understanding Michael Meadows at the 10th Anniversary Celebration the 2016 International Year of Global Understanding The increasing nationalisation of global problem constellations in current world politics shows us how important the programme of the 2016 International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) still is. The need [...]
