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About YECG-GeoSus YECG-GeoSus is an interdisciplinary working group of young and early career scientists interested in geography and sustainability, constituted within IGU in 2021 through the collaboration of IGU-YECG (International Geographical Union – Young and Early Career Geographers Task Force, https://igu.younggeographers.org/) and IGU-GFE (International Geographical Union – Geography for Future Earth: Coupled Human-Earth Systems for…

Prof. Yonglong Lu, Foreign Member of Academia Europaea (AE), Fellow of the World Academy of Sciences (TWAS), and Editorial Board Member of Geography and Sustainability, was invited to publish a paper related to the Nuclear Wastewater in Geography and Sustainability. In this paper of Monitoring Long-term Ecological Impacts from Release of Fukushima Radiation Water into…

“The Environmental Governance and Social Network Workshop” was delivered online via Zoom from March 22nd to 30th 2021. The workshop was sponsored by the journal Geography and Sustainability, IGU-GFE, Institute of Land Surface System and Sustainable Development, Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, and College of Economics and Management, Northwest Agriculture and Forestry University.…

Social-ecosystem in arid land has become a global issue Recently, the application for the establishment of Global Dryland Social-Ecosystem Working Group (hereinafter the working group) was approved by Interim Scientific Committee of Global Land Programme (GLP). The working group was proposed by Prof. Fu Bojie, academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences; Dr. Mark Stafford Smith, honorary fellow of The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO); Prof. Dennis Ojima of Colorado…

The European Geosciences Union(EGU) announced the recepients of the 2020 Union Medals and Awards on October 22, 2019. Dr. Fu Bojie, Chair of the IGU-GFE, Dean of Faculty of Geographical Science of Beijing Normal University, was named the 2020 EGU Humboldt Medal. This medal, named in honour of Alexander von Humboldt, is awarded to scientists…

The 10th IALE congress was held on 1st -5th July, 2019 at Milan, Italy. This congress focused on the different aspects of landscape ecology and the challenges of the Anthropocene. Scientists and students from more than 60 countries attended this congress, listening and discussing presentations on twenty broad thematic areas on landscape ecology. Among the…

Dear respondent, good day! This questionnaire aims to investigate the strength of relationships between the sustainable development goals (SDGs) and the ecosystem services (ESs). Through the brief survey, your answers will be helpful to bridge the gap between the SDGs and the ESs, and to further promote global sustainable development. Your response will only be…

Dr. Bojie Fu, vice President of International Geographical Union(IGU), was recently elected as an International Honorary Member of American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The announcement was conducted by Academy President David W. Oxtoby and Chair of the Board of Directors Nancy C. Andrews on 17th April, 2019. Out of the 214 individuals elected to…

The report includes membership, meetings, publications, and other important information for IGU Commission on Geography for Future Earth: Coupled Human-Earth Systems for Sustainability (IGU-GFE).                        IGU-GFE ciommittee members gathered in IGU regional conference Membership IGU Commission on Geography of Future Earth: Coupled Human Earth Systems…

A participant at the 7th International Conference on Sustainability Science (ICSS) this August jots down notes during a discussion session. Photo: Hideyuki Mohri Future Earth has collected some of their favorite stories to appear on the Future Earth website in 2017 – an eventful year that saw, among other developments, a record-breaking hurricane season in…