Geography is exploration. Explore Polar regions through film, The Blinding Sea, which is premiering later this week at Scandinavia House, the headquarters of the American-Scandinavian Foundation in New York City. The International Geographical Union is invited to participate. The Blinding Sea is a high-definition feature-length documentary film, 108 minutes long, which was shot across Alaska, [...]
Dear Colleagues, The U.S. National Committee for the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS) is presenting the America’s Geoheritage II: Identifying, Developing, and Preserving America's Natural Legacy Distinguished Speaker Webinar Series throughout fall 2020, many Tuesdays at 11:00 am EDT (USA). These presentations will introduce the underlying rationale and concepts of the Geoheritage initiative, and [...]
A Tribute to Great Geomorphologist and Inspirational Geographer, Ex IGU President Professor Verstappen, Herman Th., 1925-2020 I am deeply pained and saddened to know the demise of Ex IGU President Professor Verstappen, Herman Th. I express my deep condolences to his family, friends and well-wishers. I have been meeting him in IGU Congress and Regional [...]
'Local Government Response Towards the COVID-19 Pandemic' (IGU-CGoG) Project https://sites.google.com/view/igucgog-covid19/home of IGU Commission Geography of Governance has come out with a special open access issue on 'Urban e-Planning and the Covid-19 Pandemic' published by the International Journal of E-Planning Research, Vol. 10 (2), 2021 Visit following web-page address of the journal to download all published [...]
It is with great regret that I must inform you that Prof. Dr. Joan Vilà i Valentí, who was Vice-President of the International Geographic Union during the period 1980-1984, passed away at the age of 95 in Barcelona on August 23rd 2020. I met him in person during Barcelona IGU Regional Conference in 1986. He influenced [...]
IGU Announces broadcast of the Virtual General Assembly 2020 on YouTube Channel. Follow link https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=https%3A%2F%2Fyoutu.be%2Fe9bjknzlyj8
Dear IGU EC colleagues, Our collaborative contribution under International Science Council- Urban Health and Wellbeing program to article "COVID-19 reveals the systemic nature of urban health globally", which now has been published In Journal- Cities and Health. Please kindly refer to the link below: https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/ZSE2YVICBSFJXXFZDHPR/full?target=10.1080/23748834.2020.1763761
Prof. Benno Werlen, chair of the IGU commission on global understanding and the German National Committee, was recently appointed as Fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science (WAAS), whose members are mandated by the Academy's founders to explore “the social consequences and policy implications of knowledge.” Under the motto “Leadership in thought that [...]
IGU is delighted to announce that the IGU Lauréats d’honneur for the year 2020 conferred upon Professor Joos Drooglever-Fortuyn and Professor Yoshitaka Ishikawa. Professor Joos Drooglever-Fortuyn has been a leading international scholar in European gender geography for many decades. Her institutional and intellectual contribution has been immense. Joos has served the IGU Gender Commission since [...]
IGU is delighted to announce that Vice-President Academician Bojie Fu has been awarded an Honorary Fellowship by the Royal Geographical Society. For more information please see: http://More infomation can be found：https://www.rgs.org/geography/news/2020-medal-and-award-recipients-announced/?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=SocialSignIn&utm_content=Medals+and+Awards+2020
