The Awards Committee of the International Geographical Union is delighted to announce the recipients of the IGU Awards for 2021. Mr. Dangermond is awarded the Planet and Humanity Medal (which honours individuals (not necessarily geographers) who have made outstanding contributions to peace, welfare, or sustainability). Professor Eckart Ehlers and Helen Kerfoot are awarded the Laureat [...]
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 [...]
GeoNight 2021 - what a great result! Here are some first data extracted from the Geonight international website: https://www.geonight.net/ In the GeoNight week (April 3-9), the website had 63557 events (in this regard "events" are page views, downloads etc.). This is NOT the same as the number of event participants (it may be very different, because [...]
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, [...]
International Geodiversity Day will enable coordinated activities to take place worldwide, highlighting the importance of geodiversity. Bringing together people, communities, organisations, and countries across the world, it is expected that this will include educational, awareness raising, and public and policy engagement activities. More details can be found here: http://www.geodiversityday.org/
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 [...]
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 [...]
