News and Events

• Second Call for papers The 14th International Symposium on Spatial Data Handling -- Theory, modeling and concepts in Geospatial Information Science, 26-28th May, 2010, Hong Kong. Brochure for The 14th International Symposium on Spatial Data Handling
• China to host new international disaster research programme. The International Council for Science (ICSU) today announced that China will host the office of the new international programme, Integrated Research on Disaster Risk (IRDR)
• Abstract Submission is now open for the 50th Anniversary European Congress of the Regional Science Association International. Jönköping, Sweden (19-23 August 2010).
• Advanced Geographical Analysis and Modeling 2010 Workshop, Neve Ilan, July 08-10, 2010, IGU-CMGS is co-organizing sessions, Call for Papers
• A workshop of the IGU Commission on Geography of Governance and IPSA Research Committee #5 – Comparative Studies on Local Government and Politics Location: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
  Dates: 8-9 July 2010
• IGU Regional Conference 2010, hosted by the Israeli National Committee for Geography. The conference will take place in Tel Aviv, July 12 – 16, 2010. IGU Announcement
• IGU Applied Geography Commission - Call for papers for possible inclusion in the AGC book on Geography at Work:Public Policy and Business Applications of Geographical Analysis
  
  

Conferences

• 56th Annual North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association International, 2009, San Fransico, California, November 18-21, 2009
• Geocomputation 2009, Sydney, Nov. 30 - Dec 2, 2009, IGU-CMGS is co-organizing sessions
• 10th International Conference on GeoComputation, University of New South Wales, Australia, Nov. 31 to Dec 2, 2009
• A workshop of the IGU Commission on Geography of Governance and IPSA Research Committee #5 – Comparative Studies on Local Government and Politics Location: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel Dates: 8-9 July 2010
• Advanced Geographical Analysis and Modeling 2010 Workshop, Neve Ilan, July 08-10, 2010, IGU-CMGS is co-organizing sessions, Call for Papers
• IGU Regional Conference, The Isreal National Commission for Geography, July 12-16, Tel Aviv, Isreal, 2010, IGU-CMGS is organizing sessions Announcement
• The International Symposium for Spatial Data Handling Hong Kong, 26-28th May, 2010, IGU-CMGS is co-organizing sessions Second Call for papers
• 50th ERSA Congress Sustainable Regional Growth and Development in the Creative Knowledge Economy, 19th – 23rd August 2010, Jönköping, Sweden Call for Abstacts
  

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News from IGU

• World Climate Conference-3 (WCC-3) information on the conference is available on the WCC-3 website
• The 13th General Assembly of SCOPE (June 2009, London, UK) Scentific Committee on Problems of the Environment Resolutions
• Three posts in health/medical geography, Canterbury, NZ

 

 

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Planned Events

Meetings
A special conference is planned for 2009 for members to give papers towards a new 'Models in Geography' project based on the same format as the seminal work of Chorley and Haggett in 1967. In addition to the regional conference to be held in 2010, the Commission plans to organize workshops and special-topic conferences throughout 2008-2012.

Publications
The Commission is strongly committed to the encouragement of scholarly publication derived from the work of its members and their contributions to symposia. Theoretical and empirical research will be published as special issues in journals and edited volumes in books.

Networking
The Commission plans to organize sponsored sessions with academic and research organizations in the years to follow. Collaborations with other Commissions will also be made to capitalize on our capabilities in formulating formal and practical approaches to solve problems relevant to the missions of the Commissions concerned.

Funding
A special conference for 'New Models in Geography' project is planned for North Queensland in 2009 and in principle agreement has been reached for sponsorship by the Australian Research Council Research Network in Spatially Integrated Social Sciences (ARCRNSISS).

Membership
The Commission intends to further expand its membership by actively engaging geographers in our initiatives and activities, and to become members of the Commission.

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