COMMISSION AIM AND EMPHASIS
Coupled Human-Earth Systems for Sustainability is to promote Geography for people to thrive in a sustainable and equitable world.
The mission of the proposed commission of Geography for Future Earth: Coupled Human-Earth Systems for Sustainability is to promote Geography for people to thrive in a sustainable and equitable world.
Under the banner of IGU and Future Earth, the commission will serve as the focal point for developing, coordinating, and implementing interdisciplinary research and education related to coupled human-earth system dynamics and sustainable development.
The commission will seeks to build and connect knowledge to increase the impact of research, to explore new development paths, and contribute to achieving goals on global sustainable development by finding new ways to sustainable development.
Highly intertwined with humanity, the land systems is the most complex and important sub-systems of the coupled human-Earth systems. The proposed commission of Geography for Future Earth: Coupled Human-Earth Systems for Sustainability will initially focus on the human-land systems and its interfaces with coastal ocean and atmosphere. We will promote wider analysis and innovative thinking about global land sustainability through the bridging and synthesis of physical geography, human geography, ecology, hydrology, atmospheric, climate and social sciences.
With this mission, the commission aims at promoting and facilitating the following six thematic areas:01
Fundamentals of Geography for Future Earth, and especially new theories and hypothesis on coupled human-earth systems for sustainability;
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Open and inclusive platforms for Geospatial Big Data and observations of coupled human-earth systems;
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Integrated Earth system models to deepen our understanding of complex Earth systems and human dynamics across different scales;
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Linkages and dynamic analysis among ecological process, services, and human wellbeing;
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Human Contributions and Responses to global climate/environmental changes and sustainability;
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Linkages and dynamic analysis among ecological process, services, and human wellbeing;
COMMISSION TASKS
Coupled Human-Earth Systems for Sustainability will strongly follow the purpose of IGU to promote Geography through initiating and coordinating geographical research and teaching around the world.
The candidate commission of Geography for Future Earth: Coupled Human-Earth Systems for Sustainability will strongly follow the purpose of IGU to promote Geography through initiating and coordinating geographical research and teaching around the world. We will endeavor to collaborate with global scholars in the field of ecological services & human needs, natural and anthropogenic processes, human-earth systems dynamics and modelling, sustainability evaluation and sustainable development solutions.
Listed tasks are to be planned and implemented in the future under the guidance of IGU:
To hold regular conference and thematic workshops on relative topics, such as propose a session at the Quebec Regional Conference, host the annual conference on Geography for Future Earth, and organize annual symposium on Coupled Human-Earth Systems for Sustainability;
To carry out experiments of natural and human processes at typical regions in the world. This tends to set experimental sites in different continents and countries;
To jointly educate students and exchange scholars among the member universities and institutes, to focus on developing sustainable development solutions at national and global scale;
To jointly organize professional scientific investigation and apply for international projects and do research of different case areas in the world;
To jointly promote scientific program at global scale, write high quality scientific papers and books, and release academic reports on Geography for Future Earth.
国际地理联合会“面向未来地球的地理学：
人地系统耦合与可持续发展”专业委员会旨在促进地理学领域的国际协作与全球可持续发展