At the most recent meeting of the IGU Executive Committee, which was held in Cape Town in December 2015, the draft IGU Strategy document was approved. The strategy deals with the way forward for the International Geographical Union and highlights its tasks and priorities leading up to the IGU centennial General Assembly in 2022. The [...]
Les Trophées Femmes en Or récompensent tous les ans des personnalités féminines qui se sont illustrées dans différentes disciplines telles que l'Art, la musique, le sport, le monde de l'entreprise... Et l'innovation. Elle est la spécialiste de la géographie urbaine. Denise Pumain, 68 ans, s’est vue honorée du Trophée de la femme d’innovation, à l’occasion [...]
The 2015 EUROGEO Annual Meeting and Conference will be organised in conjunction with and hosted by the Turkish Association of Geographers (TAG), in Ankara on 21-22 May 2015. An optional field excursion to Cappadocia will take place all day on 23 May 2015. - See more at: http://www.eurogeography.eu/2015-meeting-and-conference/#sthash.ypEA4G02.dpuf Call for abstracts We invite contributors from all areas of [...]
UNESCO commissioned Past IGU Water Sustainability Commission Chair Emeritus Professor Tony Jones (UK) and Steering Committee member Professor Frank Winde (South Africa) to undertake an evaluation of the seventh phase of the IHP, which ran from 2008 to the end of 2013. The IHP has become a major force in improving water resources management globally, [...]
International Geographical Union Regional Conference ”Changes, Challenges, Responsibility” Kraków, Poland, 18-22.08.2014 The 2014 IGU Regional Conference took place in Krakow, Poland, in the Jagiellonian University. This combination of time and location has a few dimensions which contributed to the conference organization. In 2014, Poland celebrated 25th anniversary of the political independence resumption, the Jagiellonian University [...]
Following the success in 2013 of former IGU Vice-President Qin Dahe, the 2014 Volvo Environment Prize has again been awarded to a Geographer. Professor Eric Lambin, is a remote sensing pioneer using advanced data collection and satellite images to understand land use and the influence of humans on the planet. Eric Lambin is professor at [...]
The 25th annual edition of the International Festival of Geography was held at the beginning of October at its customary home in the French town of St Die des Voges. IGU was represented by Past President Ron Abler and First Vice-President Dieter Soyez. During the event Professor Anne Buttimer - also a Past IGU President [...]
'Urban Transformations: Centres, Peripheries and Systems' - Edited by Daniel P. O'Donoghue, Canterbury Christ Church University, UK Definitions of urban entities and urban typologies are changing constantly to reflect the growing physical extent of cities and their hinterlands. These include suburbs, sprawl, edge cities, gated communities, conurbations and networks of places and such transformations cause [...]
The organizing committee of the 10th International Congress of the Hellenic Geographical Society, Thessaloniki 2014 warmly thanks all participants to the congress and announces the final version of the Congress Programme. The congress programme includes 236 contributions that will be presented in 40 General, Special and Poster sessions. It also includes the Post Congress Field [...]
Under the leadership of Commission chair Professor JC Lin of National Taiwan University, the inaugural Geomorphology and Society meeting kicked off in Taipei Saturday with a three day field excursion to eastern Taiwan. Twenty participants have been exploring a region where the combined forces of plate boundary tectonics, frequent typhoons and human activity have produced [...]
