2024 International Geographical Union Thematic Conference Connecting Geographies from the Global South May 15th-17th, 2024 + Post conference excursions on May 18th-19th, 2024 FLACSO, Quito, Ecuador ANNOUNCEMENT The 2024 IGU Thematic Conference “Connecting Geographies from the Global South” will be held in the Latin American Institute of Social Sciences (FLACSO), in Quito, Ecuador, between May [...]
Michael E Meadows, President of the International Geographical Union 2020-2024, in this article, explains how sustainable development can be achieved through harnessing the benefits of basic sciences Social, economic, environmental and related health issues are receiving increased attention globally and are brought into particularly sharp focus by the global climate emergency and the biodiversity crisis, [...]
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/ [...]
The IGU has a stand in the Exhibition Hall of the 2023 AAG annual conference currently taking place in Denver. Several members of the Executive Committee, along with members of the Local Organizing Committee of the Dubling IGC 2024 are present to promote the IGU and its activities. The stand has been visited by countless [...]
Chair of the IGU Water Sustainability Commission, Professor Frank Winde represented the International Science Council at the United Nations Conference on Water for Sustainability that wound up yesterday at the UN headquarters in New York. Professor Winde was given a 3-minute slot in the Dialogue to present the International Science Council Policy Brief (see the [...]
Dear Colleagues This is a friendly reminder that the International Geomorphology Week 2023 will start soon and will run from 1st to 8th of March. The detailed programmes of the IAG's Regional Webinars as well as a number of other exciting events are available on the IAG website http://www.geomorph.org/international-geomorphology-week-2023/ Please have a look at all [...]
Dear IGU Colleagues The History and Philosophy of Geography Research Group Engagement Award 2023 The History and Philosophy of Geography Research Group (HPGRG) of the Royal Geographical Society with the Institute of British Geographers (RGS-IBG) is launching a new initiative. Every two years, HPGRG will offer a small award of £150 to support projects which [...]
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 [...]
The IGU Commission International Conference Ecological Industrialization and Comprehensive Rural Revitalization May 5-9, 2023, Hanzhong City, Shaanxi Province, China Guided by: International Geographic Union (IGU); The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS); Major Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) Hosted by: International Geographic Union Commission of Agricultural Geography and Land Engineering(IGU-AGLE); Hanzhong City; Shaanxi University [...]
The International Geographical Union is distressed to hear of the abduction of the Ukrainian geographer, Professor Vladimir Vorovka at the hands of the invasive forces and supports the following statement issued by the Ukrainian Geographical Society. Before the start of this full-scale war, which the Russian Federation started on February 24, 2022 on the territory [...]
