IDSSD Distinguished Lecture Series Following the successful distinguished lecture series launched in 2022 in support of the International Year of Basic Sciences for Sustainable Development (IYBSSD), the International Science Council GeoUnions are launching a new lecture series in recognition of the ratification by the United Nations of the International Decade of Sciences for Sustainable Development [...]
Women in Geography – Paths and Perspectives from Around the World This online event is the 11th SCGES webinar and is organized by the International Geographical Union. Often seen as a bridge between natural and social sciences, geography was institutionalized only in the mid to late 1800s, and its history is intertwined with imperialism, dominance [...]
Wenwu Zhao (chair of Future Earth Commission), Fahu Chen (President of Geographical Society of China), Barbaros Gönençgil (IGU Secretary-General), Mike Meadows (IGU President), Yukio Himiyama (IGU Past-President), Yansui Liu (Chair of Agricultural and Land Engineering Commission), Min Chen (Chair of IGU Modeling Commission)
To: All Members of the International Science Council (ISC) Dear ISC Member, Acknowledging the persistent gender gap in STEM worldwide, the ISC and UNESCO supported a statement by Ambassador Kridelka at the 9th Assembly of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science. He represented the co-chairs of the UN Group of Friends on [...]
Obituary Prof. Dr. Salah Abdel-Gaber Ghonim Eisa (1951-2023) was a prominent Egyptian geographer who specialized in Rural Geography early in his career and we remember him fondly for his enthusiastic dedication to Geography. We also celebrate him for his love of poetry and the arts. Indeed, Prof. Eisa often composed poems which he recited publicly [...]
Obituary Carlos Walter Porto-Gonçalves (1949 - Florianópolis, September 6, 2023) was a Brazilian human geographer adept at environmentalism. Author of books on social geography. As a professor, he received various awards in Latin America during his career in the defense of Political and Social Geography, highlighting the one awarded by EGAL in 2019. Biography In [...]
Dear IGU Colleagues At the UN Global Geospatial Information Management (UN-GGIM), the IGU made two major statements! The first was to recommend the use of the Triple-NTuple Helix concept to design the Geospatial Data Ecosystem. The second was to recommend that the Integrated Geospatial Information Framework Group develop a statistical tier classification with levels to [...]
Dear Members of the International Geographical Union, It is with immense joy and pride that we extend our warmest congratulations to all the stakeholders of the International Geographical Union on reaching its 101st year! Founded in 1922, the International Geographical Union (IGU) has been instrumental in bringing together geographers, researchers, educators, and enthusiasts from all [...]
“Role of Geography: Sustainable Development, Adaptation and Resilience to Climate Change in Latin America and the Caribbean”. June 26 to 30, 2023 Autonomous University of Santo Domingo Santo Domingo Dominican Republic SECOND CIRCULAR Call for thematic tables LANGUAGES Spanish, Portuguese, French, English and Dutch PRESENTATION The Organizing Commission of the XIX Meeting of Geographies of [...]
Title: “The Ocean and Seas in Geographical Thought” IGU Thematic conference As a contribution to the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (2021-2030), this thematic conference of the IGU, will focus on the ocean and seas as complex and relational geographical 'objects' through a plurality of foci. For centuries, the ocean and seas [...]
