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 [...]
IGU Commission on Local and Regional Development Annual Meeting, Cuenca, Spain, 13-15th October 2022 Topic: Sociodemographic change and its impact on territorial development policies Organized by the International Geographical Union (IGU) Commission on Local and Regional Development, the Spanish Working Group of Local Development, which is part of the Association of Spanish Geographers (AGE), and [...]
Dear Colleagues The registration tab of The IGU Extraordinary Centennial Congress 2022 scheduled at Paris during 18th July 2022 to 22nd July 2022 is now hidden. From now on, if participants who have submitted an abstract and are confirmed, e.g. colleagues who may be informed of their financial support late, they should contact the organisation [...]
The Parvati Foundation, an international non-profit is leading the creation of the Marine Arctic Peace Sanctuary (MAPS) to protect one of the most important global life support systems, the Arctic Ocean. As the Arctic ice recedes year by year, global consequences multiply. While there is still a window of opportunity to avert total catastrophe, an [...]
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The 2021 International Association for Promoting Geoethics has awarded the Geoethics Medal to IGU Vice-President Iain Hay. The citation reads as follows: Iain Hay has pioneered the field of geographies of domination and oppression in a lifetime’s work acknowledged by a rare Doctor of Letters (University of Canterbury 2009). His research unmasks unintended and insidious [...]
