International Workshop on Geography and Sustainability 2021

Overview

From November 23rd to 24th 2021, International Workshop on Geography and Sustainability 2021 was successfully held via Zoom. The workshop theme was "Geography of the Anthropocene: Transforming our world for sustainable development", which aimed to present the latest research progress on geography and sustainability, provide a valuable contribution to transforming our world for sustainable development.

Organization

The workshop was hosted by International Geographical Union, co-organized by Faculty of Geographical Science at Beijing Normal University and the Geographical Society of China, collaborated with the IGU Commissions on Geography for Future Earth, Agricultural Geography and Land Engineering, Geoheritage, Hazard and Risk, Land Degradation and Desertification, Land Use and Land Cover Change, Water Sustainability, Modeling Geographical Systems and the Young and Early Career Geographers Working Group on Geography and Sustainability.

Program

The workshop had 11 keynote speeches, which focused on the key research areas on promoting geography for sustainability. With a scientific session for young and early-career researchers, the topics of the 10 panel sessions included land use change, urbanization, agricultural geography, land degradation, water resources, disaster risk reduction, geographic modeling, heritage park, and geography education. Around 100 oral presentations have been delivered during the two days' workshop.

Participants