UGI 2011 - Regional Geographic Conference

Conference Themes

Submissions will be classified into the following themes, which coincide with the names of the Commissions and 2 Task Forces of the IGU:

01 Applied Geography	14 Geography of the Global Information Society	27 Marginalization, Globalization, and Regional and Local Responses
02 Arid Lands, Humankind, and Environment	15 Geography of Tourism, Leisure, and Global Change	28 Modeling Geographical Systems
03 Biogeography and Biodiversity	16 Geomorphic Challenges for the 21st Century	29 Mountain Response to Global Change
04 Climatology	17 Global Change and Human Mobility	30 Political Geography
05 Coastal Systems	18 Hazard and Risk	31 Population Geography
06 Cold Region Environments	19 Health and Environment	32 Sustainability of Rural Systems
07 Cultural Approach in Geography	20 History of Geography	33 Urban Geography and Emerging Urban Transformations
08 Dynamics of Economic Spaces	21 Indigenous Knowledges and Peoples' Rights	34 Water Sustainability
09 Environment Evolution	22 Islands	35 Geoparks
10 Gender and Geography	23 Karst	36 Megacities
11 Geographical Education	24 Land Degradation and Desertification	37 Transport and geography
12 Geographical Information Science	25 Land Use and Land Cover Change	38 Other
13 Geography of Governance	26 Local Development

Each author should relate their abstract to one of the 38 themes. If the submission is deemed to be unrelated to the theme chosen, the SSC may re-assign it to a theme more in keeping with the content of the paper or poster.