IGU Commissions are established for the study of a specific geographical issue or topic which benefits from international collaboration.  Commissions promote individual and group research work, encourage the exchange of ideas and organize conferences, meetings and, where appropriate, field excursions, both between Congresses and in association with International Geographical Congresses. Task Forces are established from time to time to pursue specific objectives of the IGU.

IGU Commissions chairpersons for the period 2024-2028 are as follows:

C24.01 African Studies
Chair, Dr. Inocent Moyo, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, University of Zululand, Private Bag X1001, KwaDlangezwa 3886 South Africa

Phone: +27 0 35 9026340
Mobile: +27 72 106 2632
Email: minnoxa.m@gmail.com
URL: https://igucas.africa/

C24.02 Agricultural Geography and Land Engineering
Chair, Professor Guy M Robinson, Department of Geography, Environment and Population, School of Social Sciences, University of Adelaide, North Terrace, Adelaide, South Australia 5005, Australia

Phone: +61 434 181 2792
E-Mail: guy.robinson@adelaide.edu.au
URL: http://rard.igsnrr.ac.cn/igu_agle/

C24.03 Applied Geography 
Chair, Associate Professor Nik Lomax, School of Geography, University of Leeds, UK

Phone: +44 1133434421
E-mail: n.m.lomax@leeds.ac.uk
URL: https://agcigu.wordpress.com/

C24.04 Biogeography and Biodiversity 
Chair, Professor Udo Schickhoff, Institute of Geography, University of Hamburg, Germany

Phone: +49-40-42838-4911
E-mail: udo.schickhoff@uni-hamburg.de
URL: http://igubiogeography.in/

C24.05 Climatology
Chair, Professor Agnieszka Dorota Wypych, Jagiellonian University, Institute of Geography and Spatial Management, 7 Gronostajowa St., 30-387 Krakow Poland

Phone: +48 12-664-53-25
Fax: +48 12-664-53-85
E-mail: agnieszka.wypych@uj.edu.pl
URL: https://www.igu-coc.org/

C24.06 Coastal Systems 
Chair, Professor David Green, Department of Geography and Environment, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, United Kingdom

Phone: +44 (0)1224 272324
E-mail: d.r.green@abdn.ac.uk
URL: https://igu-coast.org/

C24.07 Cold and High Altitude Regions
Chair, Professor Shichang Kang, State Key Laboratory of Cryosphere Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, China.

E-mail: shichang.kang@lzb.ac.cn

Vice-Chair, Prof. Prakash C. Tiwari, Department of Geography, Kumaun University, Nainital-263 001, Uttarakhand, India

Phone: 91-5942-237156 (Fixed) and 91-9410941117 (Cell)
E-mail: pctiwari@yahoo.com/pctiwari@gmail.com

C24.08 Cultural Geography, Society and Heritage
Chair, Professor Louis DUPONT, Institute of Geography, Sorbonne University, Laboratoire Médiations, science des lieux, science des liens, France

Mobile:

E-mail: louis.dupont@sorbonne-universite.fr
URL:

C24.09 Dynamics of Economic Spaces 
Chair, Professor Eva Kiss
HUN-REN, Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences, Geographical Institute, H-1112
Budaörsi út 45. Budapest, Hungary

Phone: +36 30 090 5582
E-mail:eva.kiss@igu-cdes.orgkisse@mail.iif.hu
URL: http://igu-cdes.org

C24.10 Environment Evolution 
Chair, Redzhep Kurbanov, Pleistocene paleogeography Lab., Faculty of Geography, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Institute of Geography RAS, Moscow, Russia

E-mail: roger.kurbanov@gmail.com or roger.kurbanov@igras.ru
URL: http://eecomm.org

C24.11 Gender and Geography: Care, Connection and Change
Chair, Dra. Joseli Maria Silva, State University of Ponta Grossa, Department of Geography, Avenida General Carlos Cavalcanti, 4748. Bloco L . Campus Uvaranas, Ponta Grossa, Paraná, Brazil 

Phone: +55 42 3220-3046
E-mail: joseli.genero@gmail.com
URL: https://igugender.wixsite.com/igugender

C24.12 Geographical Education 
Co-chair, Gillian Kidman, Professor in Science Education, Monash University, Clayton Campus, Vic. 3800, Australia

Phone: +61 3 9904 7237
E-mail: gillian.kidman@monash.edu

Co-chair, Martin Hanus, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Department of Social Geography and Regional Development, Centre for Geographical and Environmental Education, Albertov 6, 128 00 Praha 2, Czechia

Phone:+420 754 751 078
E-mail:martin.hanus@natur.cuni.cz
URL: https://www.igu-cge.org/

C24.13 Geographical Information Science 
Co-chair, Fenzhen Su, Director of State Key Laboratory of Environmental and Resource Information Systems, Institute of Geography and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 11A, Datun Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing, 100101, China

Phone: +86-10-6488-9276
E-mail: sufz@lreis.ac.cn

Co-chair, Dr Daniel Sui, Chancellor for Research and Innovation, Distinguished Professor of Geosciences, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville,
AR 72701, USA

Phone: +1 479 575-2470
E-mail: dsui20@vt.edu
URL: http://igugis.lreis.ac.cn/

C24.14 Geography for Future Earth: Coupled Human-Earth Systems for Sustainability
Chair, Professor Wenwu Zhao, Institute of Land Surface System and Sustainable Development, Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, No. 19, XinJieKouWai St., HaiDian District, Beijing 100875, China

Phone: +86-10-58802125
E-mail: zhaoww@bnu.edu.cn
URL: http://igu-gfe.org/

C24.15 Geography of Governance
Chair, Professor Anna Trono, Department of Cultural Heritage, University of Salento, Via D. Birago, 64 – 73100 Lecce, Italy
E-mail: anna.trono@unisalento.it

Co-Chair, Dr Jeffrey McNeill, Honorary Research Associate, School of People, Environment and Planning, Massey University, New Zealand
Phone: M: +64 (0)21 386 701
Email: jeffmcneill93@gmail.com

URL: https://sites.google.com/view/igucogg

C24.16 Geography of Information, Innovation and Technology
Chair, Professor Philippe Vidal, University Jean Monnet of Saint-Etienne, France

Phone:
E-mail:philippe.vidal@univ-st-etienne.fr
URL: http://journals.openedition.org/netcom/2512

Vice Chair Jiyeon Shin, Ochanomizu University, Japan
E-mail:shin.jiyeon@ocha.ac.jp

C24.17 Geography of Tourism, Leisure, and Global Change
Chair, Professor Joseph Cheer, Sustainable Tourism and Heritage, International, School of Social Sciences, Western Sydney University, Australia

E-mail:
URL: http://www.igutourism.org

C24.18 Geoheritage and Parks
Chair, Professor Dongying Wei, College of Geography, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China (update soon)

Phone: +86 10 5880 7455 x 1656
Fax: Fax: +86 10 55506955
E-Mail: weidy@bnu.edu.cn OR donawei@gmail.com
URL: http://www.igu-cog.org

C20.19 Geomorphology and Society
Chair, Prof. Dr. Yasuhiro Suzuki, Disaster Mitigation Research Center, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Aichi, 464-8601 Japan.

Phone:
E-mail:y-sz@forest.biglobe.ne.jp
URL: http://www.geomorphologyandsociety.info/

C24.20 Global Change and Human Mobility
Chair, Professor Josefina Domínguez Mujica, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Department of Geography, C/ Pérez del Toro, 1, 35003 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain

Phone: +34 928 451736 / 452943
Fax: +34 928 452775
E-Mail: josefina.dominquezmujica@ulpgc.es
URL: http://www.globility.org

C24.21 Global Understanding (update soon)
Chair, Professor Benno Werlen, Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, UNESCO-Chair on Global Understanding for Sustainability, Department of Geography, Division of Social Geography, Löbdergraben 32, Jena, 07743, Germany

Phone: +49 3641 – 9 488 41
Email: benno.werlen@gmail.com
URL: https://iguglobalunderstanding.jimdo.com/

C24.22 Hazard and Risk
Chair, Dr. Alessandro Mondini, Institute for Applied Mathematics and Information Technologies, Italian National Research Council, Italy

E-mail:alessandro.mondini@ge.imati.cnr.it
URL: https://www.igu-hr-comm.org/

C24.23 Health and Environment (update soon)

Chair, Professor Hellen Gurgel,University of Brasilia, Brasil

E-mail:helengurgel@unb.br
URL: https://www.iguhep.org, http://www.healthgeography.org

C24.24 History of Geography 
Chair, Professor Marcella Schmidt di Friedberg, Department of Human Sciences, University of Milan-Bicocca,Piazza dell’Ateneo Nuovo, 1, Milan 20126, Italy

Phone: +34 91 624 92 09
E-mail: marcella.schmidt@unimib.it
URL: https://ugihg.hypotheses.org/

C24.25 Informality, Social Change and Development
Chair, Professor Desheng Xue, School of Geography and Planning, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

E-mail: eesxds@mail.sysu.edu.cn
URL: https://www.igu-iscd.com

C24.26 International Geography Olympiad
Co-Chair, Paul VanZant
Chair, Canadian Geographic Education
394177 County Rd 12 Amaranth, Ontario, Canada L9W0N2
Phone: +1 519-217-0722
Email: vangeog@gmail.com

Co-chair, Dr Su-min Shen
Department of Geography, National Taiwan Normal University No. 162, Sec. 1, Heping East Road Taipei, 10610, China-Taipei

Phone: +886-2-33665821
Fax: +886-2-23622911
E-Mail: smshen@ntnu.edu.tw

C24.27 Islands
Chair, Professor Anica Cuka,
Department of Geography, University of Zadar, Croatia

Phone: +385/915383716

URL: http://geogsoc.org.tw/IGU-Islands/

Vice Chair, Dr. Annette Breckwoldt
Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT), Bremen, Germany

Phone: +49 421 23800-820
Email: annette.breckwoldt@leibniz-zmt.de

C24.28 Karst 
Chair, Prof (Associate) Dr. Eko Haryono, Faculty of Geography, University of Gadjah Mada, Indonesia

E-mail: e.haryono@ugm.ac.id
URL: https://igukarstcommission.wixsite.com/kc-igu

C24.29 Land Degradation and Desertification 
Chair, Dr. Matija Zorn, Head of the Department of Physical Geography, Anton Melik Geographical Institute, Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Novi trg 2, SI – 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia

Phone: 00386 1 4706 348
E-Mail: matija.zorn@zrc-sazu.si
URL: www.comland.org

C24.30 Land Use and Land Cover Change
Chair, Professor Monica Ştefania Dumitraşcu, Institute of Geography, Romanian Academy,
12 Dimitrie Racovita Street, Bucharest, Romania

Phone: 021320 86 99, 0721 243 489,
E-mail: stefania_dumitrascu@yahoo.com
URL: http://lucc.zrc-sazu.si/Home.aspx

C24.31 Landscape Analysis and Landscape Planning
Chair, Professor Marine Elbakidze, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Faculty of Forest Sciences, School for Forest Management, PO Box 43, 73921 Skinnskatteberg, Sweden

Phone:
E-Mail: marine.elbakidze@slu.se
URL: https://igu-landscape.org/

C24.32 Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Chair, Prof. Melgris José Becerra Ruiz,

Phone:
E-Mail: jose.becerra.ruiz@gmail.com
URL: http://www.ugi-latinoamerica.org

C24.33 Local and Regional Development
Chair, Ines Grigorescu, Ph.D. Senior Researcher, Environment & GIS Department,
Institute of Geography, Romanian Academy,12 Dimitrie Racovita Street, Bucharest, Romania, Romania

Phone:
E-mail: inesgrigorescu@yahoo.com
URL: http://igu-clrd.igipz.pan.pl

C24.34 Marginalization, Globalization, and Regional and Local Responses
Chair, Prof. Borna Fuerst-Bjeliš, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Science, Department of Geography, Zagreb, Croatia

Phone +385 1 4895 428
E-Mail: bornafb@geog.pmf.unizg.hr
URL: http://www.igu-marginality.info/

C24.35 Mediterranean Basin
Chair, Professor Mohamed Alouat,

E-Mail:
URL: http://igu-mediterraneanbasin.org/category/commission/

C24.36 Modelling Geographical Systems
Chair, Professor Dr. Min Chen, Vice Director, Key Laboratory of Virtual Geographic Environment, Ministry of Education of PRC, Nanjing Normal University,No.1 Wenyuan Road Qixia District, Nanjing, China

Email: chenmin0902@163.com
Website URL: http://www.igu-geomodeling.com/

C24.37 Mountain Studies
Chair, Dr. Fausto O. Sarmiento. Professor of Mountain Science, Department of Geography, University of Georgia. Athens, GA., USA.

Phone: 1-706-308-5524
Email: fsarmien@uga.edu
URL: https://montology.franklinresearch.uga.edu/igu-commission-mountain-studies

C24.38 Political Geography 

Co-chair, Professor Anne-Laure Amilhat Szary,

Phone:
E-Mail:
URL: https://politicalgeographycommission.com/

Co-chair: Professor Corey Johnson, 

E-Mail:

C24.39 Population Geography
Chair, Professor Darren Smith, School Director of Academic Staffing, Geography and Environment, Loughborough University London, U2 19, Brockington UK

Phone: +44 (0) 1509 222745
E-Mail: d.p.smith@lboro.ac.uk
URL: https://igu-popgeo.github.io/popgeo-website/welcome.html

C24.40 Research Methods in Geography
Co-Chair, Professor Meghan Cope

Phone:
Email:

Co-Chair, Professor Karanja Faith Njoki

Phone:
Email:
URL: https://igumethods.org/

C24.41 Silk Road Civilizations and Environments

Chair, Professor Fahu Chen, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Phone:
Email: fhchen@itpcas.ac.cn

C24.42 Sustainability of Rural Systems 

Co-chair, Associate Professor Valerià  PAÜL, Geography and Planning at the University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain

Phone:
E-mail:
URL: https://igu-csrs.github.io/index.html/

Co-chair, Professor Haslam McKenzie, Winthrop Research Professor at the University of Western Australia, The University of Western Australia (M257), 35 Stirling Highway, 6009 Perth, Australia

Phone:
E-mail:

C24.43 Joint ICA/IGU Commission on Toponymy
Chair
, Professor Elena Dai Prà,

Phone:
E-Mail:
URL: www.igu-icatoponymy.org

C24.44 Transport and Geography
Chair, Chia-Lin Chen,

E-Mail:
URL: https://igu-transport.org/

C24.45 Urban Commission: Re-Thinking cities and the urban: from the global to the local

Chair, Assoc. Prof. Dani Broitman, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Israel

E-Mail: danib@technion.ac.il
URL: https://www.igu-urban.org/

C24.46 Water Sustainability
Chair, Professor Frank Winde, Subject Group Geography and Environmental Studies, North-West University, Vaal Triangle Campus, Vanderbijlpark, PO Box 1174, Vanderbijlpark 1900, South Africa

Phone: +49 151 2571 3237
E-Mail: frank.winde@gmail.com
URL: https://igu-water.org/

C24.47 Young and Early Career Geographers
Chair, Dr Gaurav Sikka, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, Patliputra University, Patna, Bihar, India

E-mail: gauravsikkageo@gmail.com

URL: https://iguyecg.org/