Friday 23 December 2016

II International Conference - AFRICAN URBAN PLANNING

 
II International Conference
 AFRICAN URBAN PLANNING

Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning - University of Lisbon
&
International Planning History Society

Lisbon, 7 - 8 September 2016

Thursday 22 December 2016

Samoa - full member country of the International Geographical Union (IGU)




Following the recent IGU General Assembly e-ballot, Samoa has been confirmed as a full member country (Category A) of the International Geographical Union (IGU).
 
Official Web Portal of the Government of Samoa: http://www.samoagovt.ws/

Independent State of Samoa (Wikipedia):https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samoa

Samoan Islands (Wikipedia): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samoan_Islands  

Sunday 18 December 2016

II International Conference 'Urban e-Planning'

 
IJEPR 2017 Conference
International Journal of E-Planning Research
&
Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning - University of Lisbon
 
 20-21 April 2017

Wednesday 14 December 2016

International Association for Promoting Geoethics (IAPG)




The International Association for Promoting Geoethics (IAPG) is a multidisciplinary, scientific platform for widening the discussion and creating awareness about problems of Ethics applied to the Geosciences.
 
 

Saturday 10 December 2016

Conference - "Landscape dimensions of Sustainable Development: Science – Planning – Governance"



"Landscape dimensions of Sustainable Development: Science – Planning – Governance"
International Conference
Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University
4-6 October 2017, Tbilisi, Georgia
 
 
The conference will take place in Tbilisi, Georgia from 4-6 October 2017 to commemorate the 70th anniversary of professor Nikoloz Beruchashvili (1947-2006), internationally-renowned geographer and cartographer, author of the theory of spatiotemporal analysis and synthesis of landscapes, former head of the International Geographical Union (IGU) Commission on Landscape Analysis.

Conference website: http://iclds.tsu.ge/en/home  

Thursday 8 December 2016

2016 - International Year of Global Understanding


 
 
Executive Director: Benno Werlen

Secretariat
c/o Department of Geography
Löbdergraben 32
Friedrich Schiller
University Jena
07743 Jena
Germany

Phone: +49 36 41 - 94 88 49
Fax: +49 36 41 - 94 88 42
Email: IYGU[at]uni-jena.de

 

6th EUGEO Congress - 2017


 
Geography for Europe
Brussels, September 4-6, 2017
 
EUGEO, the Association of Geographical Societies in Europe, organises every two years a major international scientific congress, bringing together geographers from all over the world.

After Amsterdam, London, Bratislava, Rome and Budapest in 2015, where over 600 participants attended the congress, EUGEO 2017 will take place in Brussels in the prestigious Palace of the Academies, at short distance from the Grand Place.

Thursday 1 December 2016

2017 - 11th Slovak-Czech-Polish Seminarium

 
2017 - 11th Slovak-Czech-Polish Seminarium

"Flows, Spaces and Societies in Central Europe"
 
June 14th-16th, 2017


Special sessions: "Local and Regional Governance in Central Europe"

The IGU Commission on Geography of Governance will organize special sessions on "Local and Regional Governance in Central Europe"

For more information, please contact the local organizer of these special sessions:  Prof. Ján Buček (e-mail: bucek@fns.uniba.sk)
 

Wednesday 16 November 2016

2018 INTERNATIONAL GEOGRAPHICAL UNION REGIONAL CONFERENCE



2018 INTERNATIONAL GEOGRAPHICAL UNION REGIONAL CONFERENCE

6 - 10 August 2018

Départment de Géographie

Pavillon Abitibi-Price
2405, rue de la Terrasse
Université Laval
Québec (Québec)

 
Conference website: http://igu2018.ulaval.ca/  

IGU-UGI Thematic Conference 2017 - GEOGRAPHIES FOR PEACE / GEOGRAFÍAS PARA LA PAZ



GEOGRAPHIES FOR PEACE / GEOGRAFÍAS PARA LA PAZ  

IGU-UGI Thematic Conference

23-25 April 2017

The Thematic Conference in La Paz will be focused on peace and the contribution of geography to it. It will be held on 23, 24 and 25 April 2017, in combination with another major international scientific event, “EGAL, XVI ENCUENTRO DE GEÓGRAFOS DE AMÉRICA LATINA” (EGAL The 16th Meeting of Latin American Geographers), which will take place from 26 to 29 April in the same city.

 
Conference website: http://geographiesforpeace.org/  

Tuesday 15 November 2016

Local Government and Urban Governance in Europe

 





Urban Development Policy Challenges in East-Central Europe: Governance, City Regions and Financialisation

 

 

Governance in Transition

 


 

Fiscal Austerity and Innovation in Local Governance in Europe

 
Ashgate. 235 pages (ISBN 978-1-4724-3243-8)


 

International Geographical Union - full list of Commissions and Task Forces (2016-2020)

 

International Geographical Union - full list of Commissions and Task Forces (2016-2020)

IGU President & Steering Committee (2016-2018)

 

IGU President & Steering Committee (2016-2018)

IGU Strategy for 2015-2022



IGU - Executive Committee (2016-2018)


International Geographical Union - Statutes


International Geographical Union - Statutes

 
 
 

Welcome


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Welcome to the blog of the IGU Commission on Geography of Governance.

The blog publishes:

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 - news and announcement about events promoted by other entities in the broad field of local and
    regional governance;
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