Welcome Message from the
President of the Organizing Committee

Dear Friends On the occasion of the Regional Geographic Conference of the International Geographic Union (UGI) to be held in November 2011 in the city of Santiago, Chile, I give you my first greeting to all the attendees, authors and representatives of organizations participating who will be present at this major event of great scientific significance.

In conjunction with the IGU, as organizers of this event we are developing an attractive scientific program, putting into this task all the efficiency that characterizes us. I invite you to join us for this conference, which has as one of its fundamental visions the integration of professionals active in geography and allied sciences with a dynamically-changing world. Chile is proud to host this Regional Geographic Conference, so it will be a great pleasure for us to receive you here in our country. Welcome!

Col. Juan Vidal Garcia-Huidobro
Director of the Military Geographic Institute
President of the Local Organizing Committee

 

Welcome Message from the
President of the International Geographic Union

Dear Colleagues,

I most cordially invite you to participate in the International Geographical Union Regional Conference to be held from the 14th to the 18th of November 2011 in Santiago, Chile. Having had the privilege of visiting Santiago in connection with the International Cartographic Association’s 24th Congress, I can testify personally to the effectiveness and efficiency of the Local Organizing Committee of international scientific conferences and to the charms of Santiago and Chile in November.

The IGU Conference theme—United and Integrated with the World—offers a timely and comprehensive organizing framework for the first IGU meeting in many years in Latin America. Please reserve the conference dates on your calendar and start to plan now to join geographers and kindred scholars from the entire world in Santiago. I look forward to seeing you there.

Ronald F. Abler
President
International Geographic Union