Journal Geography and Sustainability & GEOSUS 2025 Journal Geography and Sustainability team is delighted to update the latest journal metrics information available for 2025 as shown below: JIF 2024 of GeoSus is 8.0, ranking 3/67 in Geography, Physical (Q1); CiteScore 2024 of GeoSus is 14.7, ranking 2/183 in Earth-Surface Processes (Q1) Also, Geography and Sustainability [...]
NKG 2025 – „Speculative geographies of the new climate regime“ Session: Platformization and speculation(s): The rise of a new speculative urbanism https://kulturgeographie.org/sessionaufrufe-nkg-2025/#platformization Moderators JProf. Dr.-Ing. Marcus Hübscher // TU Dresden, Institute of Geography Assoc. Prof. Dr. Christian Smigiel // University of Salzburg, Department of Sociology and Human Geography Please send your abstract until June 15, [...]
Dear Colleagues An international scientific conference "Geography: Past, Present, and Future Challenges", will be held on November 1-3, 2023, in Tbilisi (Georgia), and is dedicated to the 90th anniversary of the establishment of the Vakhushti Bagrationi Institute of Geography, founded in 1933 as Department of Geography at Tbilisi State University. Tbilisi, Georgia, 1-3 November, 2023 [...]
Dear Colleagues ISC Distinguished Lecture Series: “Basic Sciences for Sustainable Development” We continue the “Distinguished Lecture Series on Basic Sciences for Sustainable Development” to promote the International Year of Basic Sciences for Sustainable Development and to highlight the importance of basic sciences for the ISC community: 18 April, 14:00 UTC: “Geospatial Information-Enabled SDGs Monitoring” https://council.science/events/geospatial-information-enabled-sdgs-monitoring/ [...]
Dear Colleagues IGU is happy to disseminate announcement about the ISC Distinguished Lecture Series: “Basic Sciences For Sustainable Development”. REGISTRATION for this event is essential at: https://council.science/events/rethinking-environmental-security/ Adopted by the UN General Assembly in 2015, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development represents a new way of thinking about how to better link basic science [...]
Dear colleagues, Dear colleagues, following up on some requests, we are pleased to communicate that the deadline for proposing events for GeoNight 2023, scheduled for today, has been extended to February 20th. If you could share the information with your colleagues we would be very grateful. Responding to some requests, it seems useful to recall [...]
In April 2022, dozens of geographers from across the globe participated in an online meeting of the world's geographical societies ahead of COP15 of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity in Kunming. An initiative of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society, in collaboration with the International Geographical Union, the Royal Canadian Geographical Society, and the Royal [...]
Following on from the highly successful event held in June 2021 ahead of COP26 (Climate Change) in Glasgow, the IGU (in collaboration with the Royal Scottish Geographical Society, the Royal Canadian Geographical Society and the Royal Geographical Society) is co-hosting a second international gathering – this time in connection with COP15 on the UN Convention [...]
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 [...]
On the 22nd June 2021, representatives from almost all of the world’s geographical societies met to discuss their individual and collective responses to environmental crises. Jointly organised by the Royal Scottish Geographical Society, the Royal Geographical Society (https://protect-za.mimecast.com/s/qMkzCwjyBrS53ZmyTVMJSF) and the International Geographical Union, the online meeting was attended by over 65 delegates from 30 countries. [...]
