Commissions

C12.01 Applied Geography 
Professor Graham Clarke, School of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, United Kingdom

Phone: +44 113 343 3323
Fax: + 44 113 343 3308
E-mail: g.p.clarke@leeds.ac.uk
URL: http://policy.gmu.edu/agc/members.html

C12.02 Arid Lands, Humankind, and Environment 
Professor Mahmoud M. Ashour, Ain Shams University, Department of Geography, Cairo, Egypt

Phone: +20 2 410 1752
Fax: +20 2 685 4079
E-mail: mmashour43@gmail.com OR ashour43@hotmail.com
URL: http://ahe.uni-koeln.de

C12.03. Biogeography and Biodiversity 
Professor Udo Schickhoff, University of Hamburg, Institute of Geography, Bundesstr. 55, D-20146 Hamburg Germany

Phone: +49 4 042 838 4911
Fax: +49 4 042 838 4981
E-mail: schickhoff@geowiss.uni-hamburg.de
URL: www.geowiss.uni-hamburg.de/i-geogr/

C12.04 Climatology 
Professor Zbigniew Ustrnul, Jagiellonian University, Department of Climatology, Gronostajowa 7, Krakow 30-387 Poland

Phone: +48 12 6645324
Fax: +48 126645385
E-mail: zbigniew.ustrnul@uj.edu.pl
URL: http://www.up.univ-mrs.fr/igu-coc

C12.05 Coastal Systems 
Professor Edward Anthony, Aix-Marseille Universite, Institut Universitaire de France, CEREGE UMR CNRS 7330, Europôle de l’Arbois, B.P. 80, 13545 Aix en Provence Cedex 04, France

Phone: +33 4 42 97 17 74
E-mail: anthony@cerege.fr
URL: http://www.IGU-ces.ucc.ie

C12.06 Cold Region Environments 
Co-chair: Associate Professor Nancy Doubleday, Department of Philosophy, McMaster University, 1280 Main Street West, Hamilton, Ontari, Canada L8S 4K1

Phone: +1 905 525 9140 , ext.23087
E-mail: doublen@mcmaster.ca OR ncdday@gmail.com
URL: http://www.geogr.uni-jena.de/cre/index.html

Co-chair: Dr Dario Trombotto, Ianigla-CCT Mendoza-Conicet, Casilla de Correo 330, 5500 Mendoza Argentina

Phone: + 54 262 524 4208
Fax: + 54 261 524 4200
E-mail: dtrombot@lab.dricyt.edu.ar
URL: www.cricyt.edu.ar

C12.07 Cultural Approach in Geography 
Professor Benno Werlen, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Institut fuer Geographie, Grietgasse 6, Jena D-07743 Germany

Phone: +49 364 194 8840
Fax: +49 364 194 8842
E-mail: benno.werlen@uni-jena.de
URL: http://www.cultural-approach.net

C12.08 Dynamics of Economic Spaces 
Professor Neil Reid, University of Toledo, Department of Geography and Planning, Toledo OH 43606 USA

Phone: +1 419 530 3591
Fax: +1 419 530 3548
E-mail: neil.reid@utoledo.edu
URL: http://uac.utoledo.edu/igu_commission/index.htm

C12.09 Environment Evolution 
Dr Tatjana Boettger, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Department of Catchment Hydrology, Theodor-Lieser-Straße 4, 06120 Halle Germany

Phone: +49 345 558 52227
Fax: +49 345 558 5449
E-Mail: tatjana.boettger@ufz.de
URL: http://ee-commission.narod.ru/

C12.10 Gender and Geography 
Associate Professor Shirlena Huang, Department of Geography, National University of Singapore, 1 Arts Link, Singapore 117570

Phone: +65 65166102
Fax: +65 67773091
E-mail: geoslena@nus.edu.sg
URL: http://igugender.socsci.uva.nl/

C12.11 Geographical Education 
Co-chair: Professor Joop van der Schee, Center for Educational Training, Assessment and Research (CETAR), Faculty of Psychology and Education, Vrije University Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1105, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Phone: + 31 20 5989213
E-mail: j.a.vander.schee@vu.nl
URL: http://www.igu-cge.org/

Co-chair: Co-chair:
Professor John Lidstone, Faculty of Education, Queensland University of Technology, Kelvin Grove Campus, Red Hill, Queensland 4059, Australia

Phone: +61 7 3138 3289
Mobile : +61 413 485 957
E-mail: j.lidstone@qut.edu.au

C12.12 Geographical Information Science 
Associate Professor Francis Harvey, University of Minnesota, 468 Social Sciences, 267 19th Ave S, Minneapolis, MN 55455 USA

Phone: +1 612 625 2586
Fax: +1 612 624 1044
E-mail: fharvey@umn.edu
URL: http://www.igugis.org/

C12.13 Geography of Governance
Associate Professor Jan Bucek, Comenius University, Department of Human Geography & Demogeography, Mlynska dolina, Bratislava 842 15, Slovakia

Phone: +421 2 6029 6310
Fax: +421 2 6542 9064
E-mail: bucek@fns.uniba.sk
URL: http://www.igu-gog.org/

C12.14 Geography of the Global Information Society
Professor Mark Wilson, Michigan State University, School of Planning, Design and Construction, 101 UPLA Building, East Lansing MI 48864 USA

Phone: +1 517 353 9054
Fax: +1 509 472 8102
E-mail: wilsonmm@msu.edu
URL: http://www.igu-informationsociety.org

C12.15 Geography of Tourism, Leisure, and Global Change
Professor Dieter K. Muller, Umeå University, Department of Geography & Economic History, SE-901 87 Umeå Sweden

Phone: +90 786 63 66
E-mail: dieter.muller@geography.umu.se
URL: http://www.geog.nau.edu/igust/

C12.16 Geoparks
Professor Dongying Wei, Beijing Normal University, College of Geography, Beijing 100875 China

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

C12.17 Global Change and Human Mobility
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: jdominguez@dgeo.ulpgc.es
URL: http://w3.uniroma1.it/globility/

C12.18 Hazard and Risk
Professor Shigeko Haruyama, Mie University, Graduate School of Bio Reources, 1577 Kurimachiyasyo, Tsu, Mie Japan

Phone: +81 59 231 9576
Fax: +81 59 231 9591
E-mail: haruyama@bio.mie-u.ac.jp
URL: http://www.bio.mie-u.ac.jp/~haruyama/igu/

C12.19 Health and Environment
Co-Chair: Professor Wuyi Wang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, A 11 Datun Road Beijing 100101 China

Phone: +86 10 64889286
Fax: +86 10 64856504
E-mail: wangwy@igsnrr.ac.cn
URL: http://geog.queensu.ca/igu-com-he/

Co-Chair: Professor Thomas Krafft, Department of International Health, Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht University, Duboisdomein 30, 6229 GT Maastricht, The Netherlands

Phone: +31 43 3882204
Fax: +31 43 64856504
E-Mail: thomas.krafft@maastrichtuniversity.nl
URL: http://geog.queensu.ca/igu-com-he/

C12.20 History of Geography 
Professor Jacobo García-Álvarez, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Departamento de Humanidades: Geografía, Historia Contemporánea y Arte, C/ Madrid 133, Edificio 17, despacho 17.2.14, Getafe 28093, Spain

Phone: +34 91 624 92 09
Fax: +34 91 624 85 62
E-mail: jacobo.garcia@uc3m.es
URL: http://web.univ-pau.fr/RECHERCHE/UGIHG/

C12.21 Indigenous Knowledges and Peoples’ Rights
Professor Brad Coombes, School of the Environment, University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019, Auckland 5-7613, New Zealand

Phone: +64 9 3737599, ext: 88455
Fax: +64 9 373 7434
E-mail: b.coombes@auckland.ac.nz
URL: http://www.indigenousgeography.net/ipkrc.shtm

C12.22 Islands 
Professor Chang-Yi David Chang, National Taiwan University, Department of Geography, 1, Sec. 4, Roosevelt Road, Taipei 106 Taiwan

Phone: +886 2 33 66 58 27
Fax: +886 2 23622911
E-mail: changyi@ntu.edu.tw
URL: http://igu-islands.giee.ntnu.edu.tw/

C12.23 Karst 
Dr. Elena Trofimova, Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Geography, Laboratory of Geomorphology, 29, Staromonetny str., 109017 Moscow, Russia

Phone: +7 495 238 0360
Fax: +7 495 959 0033
E-mail: eltrofimova@rambler.ru

URL: http://sites.google.com/site/igukarstcommission

C12.24 Land Degradation and Desertification 
Associate Professor Paul F. Hudson, Head of Studies: Sustainability and Environmental Science, Leiden University
LUC The Hague, The Netherlands

Phone: +31 70 8009330
E-Mail: p.f.hudson@luc.leidenuniv.nl
URL: https://webspace.utexas.edu/hudsonpf/Comland

C12.25 Landscape Analysis and Landscape Planning
Professor Nodar Elizbarashvili, Tbilisi State University, Department of Regional Geography and Landscape Planning
1 Chavchavadze Av., Tbilisi 380028 Georgia

Phone: +995 99 410804
Fax: +995 32 253313
E-Mail: nelizbarashvili@yahoo.com

C12.26 Land Use and Land Cover Change
Professor Ivan Bicik, Charles University, Department of Social Geography and Regional Development, Albertov 6, Prague 128 43, Czech Republic

Fax: + 42 2 24919778
E-mail: bicik@natur.cuni.cz
URL: http://www.luccprague.cz/

C12.27 Latin American Studies
Professor Geog. Juan Manuel Delgado, Peruvian University of Applied Sciences, Avenue Prolongación Primavera 2390, Monterrico, Surco, Lima Perú

Phone: +51 313 3333, ext. 1226 and 1221
Phone: +51 332 6160 OR +51 1997953080
Fax: + 51 313 3344
E-Mail: juanmanueldelgado@gmail.com OR pchujdel@upc.edu.pe OR juan.delgado@ugiperu.org

C12.28. Local and Regional Development 
Professor Michael Sofer, Bar Ilan University, Department of Geography and Environment, Ramat-Gan 52900 Israel

Phone: + 972 3 531 8773
Fax: +972 3 738 4033
E-mail: msofer@biu.ac.il
URL: http://www.biu.ac.il/soc/ge/igucomld/

C12.29. Marginalization, Globalization, and Regional and Local Responses 
Dr Stanko Pelc, University of Primorska, Faculty of Humanities, Geography Department, Titov trg 5, SI-6000 Koper Slovenia

Phone: +386 41 695 392
E-Mail: stanko.pelc@fhs.upr.si
URL: http://www.igu-marginality.info/

C12.30 Mediterranean Basin
Professor Maria Paradiso, University of Sannio, Departimento SEGIS, Piazza Arechi II, 82100 Benevento Italy

Phone: +39 824 305210
Fax: +39 824 305229
E-Mail: paradiso@unisannio.it

C12.31 Modeling Geographical Systems
Professor Yee Leung, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Dept of Geography and Resource Management, Shatin Hong Kong

Phone: + 852 3943 6473
Fax: + 852 2603 5006
E-mail: yeeleung@cuhk.edu.hk
URL: http://www.science.mcmaster.ca/~igu-cmgs/

C12.32 Mountain Response to Global Change 
Professor Joerg Loeffler, University of Bonn, Department of Geography, Meckenheimer Allee 166, Bonn D-53115 Germany

Phone: +49 228 73 7239
Fax: +49 228 73 7506
E-mail: joerg.loeffler@.uni-bonn.de
URL: http://tolu.giub.uni-bonn.de/igu-mountains.de/

C12.33 Political Geography 
Associate Professor Elena dell’Agnese, University of Milano-Bicocca, Department of Sociology and Social Research
Via Bicocca degli Arcimboldi 8, 20126 Milan Italy

Phone: +39 264 487 556, ext: 7486
Fax: +39 264 487 561, ext: 7561
E-Mail: elena.dellagnese@unimib.it
URL: www.igu-cpg.unimib.it

C12.34 Population Geography 
Professor Etienne Piguet, Institut de Geographie, Universite de Neuchatel, 2000 Neuchatel Switzerland

Phone: +41 32 7181919
Fax: +4132 7181701
E-Mail: etienne.piguet@unine.ch

C12.35 Sustainability of Rural Systems 
Co-chair: Professor Ana Firmino, New University of Lisbon, Faculty of Human and Social Sciences, Department of Geography and Regional Planning, Av. de Berna, 26-C, 1069-061 Lisboa Portugal

Phone: +351 21 790 83 00
Fax: +351 21 790 83 08
E-Mail: am.firmino@fcsh.unl.pt
URL: http://www.igu-csrs.ccsv.okayama-u.ac.jp/

Co-chair: Professor Doo-Chul KIM, Department of Rural Environment Management, Graduate School of Environmental & Life Science, Okayama University, 3-1-1 Tsushima-naka, Okayama 700-8530 Japan

Phone: +81 86 251 8886
Fax: +81 86 251 8886
E-Mail : kim@cc.okayama-u.ac.jp
URL: http://www.igu-csrs.ccsv.okayama-u.ac.jp/

C12.36 Toponymy (Jointly with International Cartographic Association)
Professor Cosimo Palagiano, Dipartimento di Scienze Documentarie Linguistico-Filologiche e Geografiche, Sapienza Università di Roma, Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, 00100 Rome Italy

Phone: +39 06 49913 917
Fax: +39 06 49913874
E-Mail: cosimo.palagiano@uniroma1.it

C12.37 Transformation Processes in Megacities
Professor Frauke Kraas, Universität zu Köln, Geographisches Institut, Albertus-Magnus-Platz, Koeln D-50923 Germany

Phone: +49 221 470 7050
Fax: +49 221 470 4917
E-Mail: f.kraas@uni-koeln.de
URL: http://www.megacities.uni-koeln.de/

C12.38 Transport and Geography
Professor Richard Knowles, University of Salford, School of Environment & Life Sciences, Peel Building Room 309, Salford M5 4WT, United Kingdom

Phone: +44 161 295 4994
Fax: +44 161 295 5015
E-Mail: r.d.knowles@salford.ac.uk

C12.39 Urban Commission: Urban Challenges in a Complex World
Professor Celine Rozenblat, University of Lausanne, Institute of Geography and Sustainability, Geopolis Building – Office 3614, CH – 1015 Lausanne Switzerland

Phone: 41 21 692 36 13
Fax: 41 21 692 30 75
E-Mail: celine.rozenblat@unil.ch
URL: http://www.unil.ch/igu-urban

C12.40 Water Sustainability
Professor Claudio Cassardo, University of Torino, Department of General Physics, Via Pietro Giuria 1, 10125 Torino Italy

Phone: +39 011 670 7407
Fax: +39 011 236 7407
E-Mail: claudio.cassardo@unito.it
URL: http://water-sustainability.ph.unito.it

T12.01 Olympiad
Co-chair: Ms Kathryn Berg, The Royal Geographical Society of Queensland, 237 Milton Road, Milton Qld 4064 Australia

Phone: + 61 7 3368 2066
Fax: + 61 7 3367 1011
E-Mail: admin@rgsq.org.au
URL: http://www.geoolympiad.org

Co-chair: Professor Lex Chalmers, The University of Waikato, Department of Geography, Private Bag 3105, Hamilton New Zealand

Phone: +64 7 838 4436
Fax: +64 7 838 4633
E-Mail: lex@waikato.ac.nz
URL: http://www.geoolympiad.org