The IGU Executive Committee (see photograph) is meeting in Tianjin, some 120k south-east of Beijing, in preparation for the upcoming International Geographical Congress which kicks off on 22nd August at the China National Convention Centre in Beijing (see: http://www.igc2016.org). The Congress, which will include a General Assembly during which a new IGU President and four IGU [...]
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In 2017 the International Geographical Union (IGU-UGI) will organize two Thematic Conferences, instead of a large Regional : one about “Energy, Geography & Balanced Development” in Baku (Azerbaijan), and one about “Geographies for Peace” in La Paz (Bolivia). The Thematic Conference in La Paz will be focused on peace and the contribution of geography to [...]
IGU COMB Annual 2016 Conference 'Mediterranean sustainability between climate change and human mobility' Report. Maria Paradiso, Chair of the IGU Commission on the Mediterranean Basin (COMB) reports. 'The annual COMB conference 'Mediterranean sustainability between climate change and human mobility' has just taken place in Antalya Turkey 1-4 June 2016. It was a very successful Conference [...]
Dynamics of Economic Spaces Commission Meeting Palmerston North, New Zealand FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS Theme: New Resource Geographies Timing: 22-24 November 2016 Venue: Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand Key Dates 1 July - Registration Opens 1 August - 2nd call for papers and abstracts 1 September - Early Bird Registrations close 31 October - [...]
Professor Ghazi-Walid Falah, who is Editor-in-Chief of the Arab World Geographer has kindly made available the latest special issue of the journal which contains some 21 essays and a number of commentaries. The essays are contributed by high profile retired Geographers and the special issue provides us with fascinating disciplinary insights into the life and [...]
The Department for Social and Economic Geography and Regional Studies, the Faculty of Geology and Geography, V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University (Ukraine) invites you to take part on 3-4 April 2014 at the scientific and practical conference for students, post-graduate students and young researches - Region-2014: human-geographical aspects and to publish your articles in the scientific journal JOURNAL OF HUMAN GEOGRAPHY. For more information, download here and here. If [...]
