Dear Colleagues IGU COMMISSION GEOGRAPHY OF GOVERNANCE WEBINAR THE RESPONSE OF LOCAL GOVERNANCE TO THE GLOBAL CLIMATE EMERGENCY 8 November 2022 The IGU Commission on the Geography of Governance organizes a Webinar on 'The Response of Local Governance to the Global Climate Emergency', on 8 November 2022, 13:00 - 16:30 (UTC). The program includes 8 [...]
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 [...]
OBITUARY Professor Akin L. MABOGUNJE (18 October 1931 to 4 August 2022) It is with great sadness that IGU announces the death of one its greatest sons, former IGU President Professor Akin Mabogunje. Professor Akinlawon (Akin) Mabogunje died on Thursday, 4 August 2022 at the age of 90 years. Akin Mabogunje was the first African [...]
2nd International Scientific Conference Landscape Dimensions of Sustainable Development: Science – Mapping – Planning – Governance http://icldscartogis.tsu.ge/en Tbilisi, Georgia Dear Colleagues, The 2nd International Scientific Conference “Landscape Dimensions of Sustainable Development: Science – Mapping – Planning – Governance” will take place in Tbilisi State University, Tbilisi, Georgia on 12-16 September 2022 to commemorate the 75th [...]
Dear Colleagues, We are pleased to announce that the International Geographical Union (IGU)Thematic Conference on “Islands in Relations: Conflicts, Sustainability, and Peace” will be held at Osaka Metropolitan University, Osaka, Japan, from April 4th to 6th, 2023. The Conference will be organized in a hybrid format (a combination of in-person and virtual sessions) with the [...]
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 [...]
In April 2022, dozens of geographers from across the globe participated in an online meeting of the world's geographical societies ahead of COP15 of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity in Kunming. An initiative of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society, in collaboration with the International Geographical Union, the Royal Canadian Geographical Society, and the Royal [...]
