会议名称(英文)： IGU Regional Conference
所属学科： 地球化学与矿床,地球物理
开始日期： 2014-08-18
结束日期： 2014-08-22
所在国家： 波兰
所在城市： 波兰
具体地点： 克拉科夫
主办单位： 国际地理联合会
[ 重要日期 ] 摘要截稿日期： 2014-01-15
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E-MAIL： cbin@adm.uj.edu.pl
会议网站： http://www.igu2014.org/
会议背景介绍： We are pleased to invite you to participate in the 2014 IGU Regional Conference which will be held in Kraków, Poland, 18-22 August, 2014. It will also be an excellent opportunity to discover the beauty and variety of the environment and the culture of Central and Eastern Europe.
The main theme of the conference is Changes, Challenges, Responsibility. Modern geography faces significant challenges focusing on the recognition of and response to contemporary changes in the environment, society and economy. All this calls for our responsibility. The conference aims to create a forum at which these issues can be addressed. It is open to all geographers across the spectrum who specialize in all fields of the discipline. The conference is going to be an event contributing to efforts undertaken, for example, by ICSU/ISSC Future Earth, and aimed at defining pathways towards sustainability and responding effectively to the risks and opportunities of global environmental change.
Kraków, the former capital of Poland, is the seat of the second oldest university in Central Europe, established in 1364. The Jagiellonian University is the seat of the first ever Chair of Geography in Poland, established in 1849.
We believe that the 2014 IGU Regional Conference will be an important and meaningful event, bringing together geographers from all over the world and contributing to a better understanding of the changes and challenges faced by the world and our discipline as well as the responsibility we all share.
征文范围及要求： The theme of our conference is
CHANGES, CHALLENGES, RESPONSIBILITY
The world entered the second decade of the 21st century confronted with serious environmental, social and economic problems. We can observe numerous CHANGES in both natural and human systems, significantly influencing the present and future well-being of societies. Apart from well-known links and interactions between the two system types, new ones emerge, e.g. unbalanced economic development not only causes environmental degradation but also contributes to social and political problems that manifest themselves spatially.
Modern geography faces significant research CHALLENGES as its aim is to support citizens in better understanding the world we live in. Interdisciplinary research is gaining increasing importance as the best tool to combine the holistic approach with very advanced knowledge and techniques from particular branches of geography. Additionally, the results of scientific activity are the subject of public debate at the local, regional and global level, and are involved in the process of shaping societies’ awareness concerning environmental issues at the local, regional and global level.
One of the key tasks for modern geography seems to be helping citizens in realizing their RESPONSIBILITY for the future of our world. Achieving that goal is connected, for example, with making research results better accessible for non-specialists. Life-long education is especially needed in the case of environmental sciences. However, it is still not sufficiently organized, even in the most developed countries.
We do hope the presentations of advanced knowledge and techniques by geographers from all over the world and the debates at the 2014 IGU Regional Conference held in Kraków will contribute to the development of better environmental, economic and social solutions for the future of different regions of our planet.
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