Tasks

IGU commission on Geography and Sustainability will strongly follow the purpose of IGU to promote Geography through initiating and coordinating geographical research and teaching around the world. We will endeavor to collaborate with global scholars in the field of ecological services & human needs, natural and anthropogenic processes, human-earth systems dynamics and modelling, sustainability evaluation and sustainable development solutions. Listed tasks are to be planned and implemented in the future under the guidance of IGU:

(1)  To hold regular conference and thematic workshops on relative topics, such as propose a session at the Quebec Regional Conference, host the annual conference on Geography and Sustainability;

(2)  To carry out experiments of natural and human processes at typical regions in the world. This tends to set experimental sites in different continents and countries;

(3) To jointly educate students and exchange scholars among the member universities and institutes, to focus on developing sustainable development solutions at national and global scale;

(4)  To jointly organize professional scientific investigation and apply for international projects and do research of different case areas in the world;

(5)  To jointly promote scientific program at global scale, write high quality scientific papers and books, and release academic reports on geography and sustainability.