Humanities and Social Sciences for Sustainability Cultural and regional dimensions of global sustainability Online Conference, October 21 & 22, 2020 In the long run, deep and peaceful societal transformations towards global sustainability without the social sciences’ and the humanities’ insights are hardly feasible. During the conference a group of leading international experts will present and [...]
Geography is exploration. Explore Polar regions through film, The Blinding Sea, which is premiering later this week at Scandinavia House, the headquarters of the American-Scandinavian Foundation in New York City. The International Geographical Union is invited to participate. The Blinding Sea is a high-definition feature-length documentary film, 108 minutes long, which was shot across Alaska, [...]
Dear Colleagues, The U.S. National Committee for the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS) is presenting the America’s Geoheritage II: Identifying, Developing, and Preserving America's Natural Legacy Distinguished Speaker Webinar Series throughout fall 2020, many Tuesdays at 11:00 am EDT (USA). These presentations will introduce the underlying rationale and concepts of the Geoheritage initiative, and [...]
'Local Government Response Towards the COVID-19 Pandemic' (IGU-CGoG) Project https://sites.google.com/view/igucgog-covid19/home of IGU Commission Geography of Governance has come out with a special open access issue on 'Urban e-Planning and the Covid-19 Pandemic' published by the International Journal of E-Planning Research, Vol. 10 (2), 2021 Visit following web-page address of the journal to download all published [...]
Dear IGU EC colleagues, Our collaborative contribution under International Science Council- Urban Health and Wellbeing program to article "COVID-19 reveals the systemic nature of urban health globally", which now has been published In Journal- Cities and Health. Please kindly refer to the link below: https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/ZSE2YVICBSFJXXFZDHPR/full?target=10.1080/23748834.2020.1763761
Prof. Benno Werlen, chair of the IGU commission on global understanding and the German National Committee, was recently appointed as Fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science (WAAS), whose members are mandated by the Academy's founders to explore “the social consequences and policy implications of knowledge.” Under the motto “Leadership in thought that [...]
IGU is delighted to announce that the IGU Lauréats d’honneur for the year 2020 conferred upon Professor Joos Drooglever-Fortuyn and Professor Yoshitaka Ishikawa. Professor Joos Drooglever-Fortuyn has been a leading international scholar in European gender geography for many decades. Her institutional and intellectual contribution has been immense. Joos has served the IGU Gender Commission since [...]
IGU is delighted to announce that Vice-President Academician Bojie Fu has been awarded an Honorary Fellowship by the Royal Geographical Society. For more information please see: http://More infomation can be found：https://www.rgs.org/geography/news/2020-medal-and-award-recipients-announced/?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=SocialSignIn&utm_content=Medals+and+Awards+2020
Dear IGU National Committee, Due to the postponement of the 2020 Istanbul Congress and General Assembly, I am writing to you in connection with two important matters that need to be resolved by e-ballot, viz. i) election of IGU President and four Vice-Presidents for the period 2020-2024, and ii) selection of the location for the [...]
Invitation for publication through Book Series 1. Springer Series-Advances in Geographical and Environmental Sciences-Series Ed: IGU Secretary General-R.B.Singh, ISSN: 2198-3542:Link:https://www.springer.com/series/13113 2. Elgar Series-The International Geographical Union Series on Contemporary Geographies- Series Ed: Iain Hay, Flinders University, Australia and Michael Meadows, University of Cape Town, South Africa, Link: https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/book-series/environment/the-international-geographical-union-series-on-contemporary-geographies.html 3. Springer Series-Sustainable Development Goals- Series Ed: [...]
