The workshop will take place at Universidad de Ciencias y Artes de Chiapas, Tuxtla Gutiérrez Chiapas, Mexico during June 24 – July 5, 2013.

The main objective of the workshop is to share FORIN-Forensic Investigations of Disasters, a methodology proposed by the program on Integrated Research on Disaster Risk (IRDR), in order to understand the complex and underlying causes of disasters. The course is directed to young scientists and students from all disciplines related to the field of disaster risk reduction.

Participants are expected to apply the FORIN methodology through study cases in different Latin-American countries.

The workshop is sponsored by the International Council of Science (ICSU) and the International Geographical Union (IGU). It is supported by the ICSU program on Integrated Research on Disaster Risk (IRDR), the ICSU Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean (ICSU-ROLAC), the Mexican Academy of Sciences, the International Consortium on Landslides, the National Autonomous University of Mexico, the University of Florida, the University of Sciences and Art of Chiapas, and the National Center for Disaster Prevention (CENAPRED).

Organizers: Irasema Alcántara Ayala (UNAM), Anthony Oliver-Smith (University of Florida).

Language: Spanish

The deadline for application to this workshop is 30 May, 2013.

Further information and application forms:
landscapelac@gmail.com

Call for papers: If you’d like to participate in the workshop, please visit the website here.

The Conference will be focused on one of the central problems of contemporary geography: the combination of traditional and modern knowledge in reaching the objectives of sustainable development at the local and global scale. The venue of the conference – Kyoto, one of the most ancient cities and the former capital of Japan, symbolizes a synthesis of traditions and modernity. I am sure that our hosts will implement this principle in the organization of the Conference which will be based on traditional and new approaches. It will be an excellent occasion for us to get better acquainted with the Japanese geography and geographers and learn more about this wonderful country in participating in field excursions and tours.  Abstract submission is now closed and the conference programme will be announced shortly; registration remains open.  Find out more at:  http://www.igu-kyoto2013.org/

2012 Annual Report

The International Geographical Union (IGU)

The IGU was founded under the auspices of the International Research Council in 1922 in Brussels, having been conceived some years earlier in Paris. Its debut as a formal, continuing organization was preceded by ten International Geographical Congresses, the first of which was held in Antwerp in 1871. Early congresses addressed such specific topics as the international standardization of the prime meridian for mapping and agreement on the world’s time zones. In later years up to 1922 the congresses became more general in scope, establishing commissions to address salient facets of geography and cartography. The IGU was established as part of the broader organization of international science that occurred in the early decades of the last century. The IGU was a founding member of the International Council for Science (ICSU) and remains an active member of that organization, in addition to its membership in the International Social Science Council (ISSC).

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To read more, please download the full report here.

The conference will be organized around two workshops:

Firms’ policies, households’ residential practices and energy transition 

Spatial issues, firms, workers and sustainable mobility

Important dates

Call for paper : open till June 15 2013

Acceptance will be notify by July 15^th 2013

Registration will open July 1^st 2013

Submission and information: http://transenergy2013.sciencesconf.org/

Those interested to participate, please express your interest and enclose basic information to Ján Bu?ek until April 10, 2013 by e-mail (bucek@fns.uniba.sk). For our initial organization purposes, we need set of brief information (in MS Word file) – Name, Surname, Affiliation, Contact (mail address); Title of presentation; Short abstract (indicative, 150-200 words only).

For more information, click here.

14th All Pakistan Geographical Conference was held at University of the Punjab Organized by the Department of Geography from 05 – 07 March, 2013. The Conference was inaugurated by Prof. Dr. Maryam K. Elahi, exchairperson of Geography Dept. of Punjab Universityand the most senior geographer of Pakistan who graduated from the Punjab University in 1948 and as PhD graduate from London University in 1952 and retired from the service in 1983.

More than 180 participants attended the conference. One hundred and one (101) authors presented their research work jointly. Fifty five (55) papers were read on the various subfields of geography including Physical, Human Environment& Disasters, Urban, agricultural & Landuse as well as GIS and Remote sensing. At the end of the conference, recommendations were also made for the promotion of field of geography in Pakistan. Prof. Dr. Abdul Ghaffar informed the participants the Pakistan Geographical Review, scholarly journal of Department of Geography Punjab university which is being published since 1942 and was placed online in 2007. All the back issues since 1942 now can be accessed online. A demonstration was also made in this regard. The participants were highly delighted. A number of participants expressed their views in this regard.

In a business meeting of the conference on 6th March, Prof. Dr Abdul Ghaffar was unanimously elected as the President of Pakistan Geographical Association as well as the Chairman of National Committee on Geography in Pakistan.

Download the full report here.

Registration deadline has been extended to April 15, 2013.

The papers will be published in Proceeding Landscapes: Perception, Knowledge, Awareness and Action, Addleton Academics Publishers, New York, U.S.A. (http://addletonacademicpublishers.com/images/stories/2012.pdf).
The Proceedings book is recorded in the Library of Congress Online Catalogue, and it is indexed and/or abstracted in:

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• DeepDyve
• EBSCOhost
• EBSCO Discovery Service
• Gale
• International Bibliography of the Social Sciences
• International Political Science Abstracts
• Index Islamicus
• Political Science Complete
• ProQuest
• Ulrich’s Periodicals Directory
• Universe Digital Library
• Contemporary Science Association Databases