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02/2025
IGU Thematic Conference, Lima, Peru. October 13–17, 2025.
The conference aims to address the challenges and opportunities within the realms of local and regional development, land use change, disaster risk management, health, and biodiversity by focusing on the complex relationships and connections between the Global North and South. It seeks to provide a platform to address some of the key global issues and acknowledge the shared challenges faced by diverse regions worldwide. Hence, it provides an opportunity for experts, researchers, policymakers, and practitioners from diverse regions to exchange ideas, share experiences, and collaborate on solutions. Ultimately, focusing on the connections between the Global North and South, the conference is aimed to foster a global dialogue that transcends geographical boundaries, serving as a catalyst to support decision-making and policy formulation towards the development of sustainable strategies that prioritize environmental conservation, land use/cover change, public health improvement, and inclusive local and regional development on a global scale.
Read more … IGU Thematic Conference, Lima, Peru. October 13–17, 2025.
01/2025
IGU Thematic Conference: Diverse Geographies of Peace, Environmental Impacts, Territorial Conflicts, and War in the Contemporary World
October 27–November 1, 2025, Santa Marta, COLOMBIA
The International Geographical Union (IGU), in collaboration with the National Committee of Colombia and the Commission on Latin American and Caribbean Studies (C20.30), invites geographers and the international scientific community to participate in the UGI Thematic Conference 2025.
The deadline for registration and abstract submission is May 1, 2025.
01/2025
Egypt Thematic Conference 2025, April 12–19, 2025, Cairo
Read more … Egypt Thematic Conference 2025, April 12–19, 2025, Cairo
03/2024
2024 AAG Annual Meeting
The IGU Commission on Local and Regional Development will be hosting two sessions:
- Border Regions, Peripheral Areas and Territorial Development. Under the current context of globalization, and taking its main components (i.e. the resources, the people, the institutions) into consideration, the development of a border area appears to be an attractive topic for academics and a useful theme for territorial actors valorizing small-scale studies on the economic, financial, social, territorial, innovation, governance and development aspects of cross-border cooperation – to be discussed by the speakers of the session.
- Experiences in Co-creating Sustainability Strategies across Regions and Cultures using Living Labs and Participatory Methodologies. This session attempts to attract and connect a large number of academics and practitioners from various fields of geography who have used participatory and LLs (Libing Labs) approaches to address different sustainability challenges across various regions and cultures.
03/2024
The Pre-IGC Dublin 2024 Meeting of the IGU Commissions on Local and Regional Development, Land Use & Land Cover Change and Health and Environment, Cork City, Ireland, August 20-23, 2024
The IGU Commissions on Local and Regional Development (IGU-LRD), Land Use and Land CoverChange(IGU-LU/LCC) & Health and Environment Commission (IGU-CHE) are organizing a pre-Congress scientific eventin Cork, Ireland to share knowledge and exchange ideas onthe best of global geographic researchthat meets the key areasof interestsof the three IGU Commissions and beyond.
