General Courses: Geography and Sustainability 2022

From June 27th to 30th 2022, the General Courses: Geography and Sustainability was successfully held via Zoom with more than 300 participants. It was hosted by Beijing Normal University and IGU-GFE. Six invited speakers including Prof. Bojie Fu (Beijing Normal University, China), Prof. Michael Meadows (University of Cape Town, South Africa), Prof. David John Eldridge (University of New South Wale, Australia), Prof. Paulo Alexandre da Silva Pereira (Mykolas Romeris University, Lithuania), Prof. Adam Wei (University of British Columbia, Canada), and Prof. Paolo Tarolli (University of Padova, Italy) shared their knowledge with participants. The speakers discussed many aspects of geography and sustainability, including promoting geography for sustainability in the era of Anthropocene, Anthropogeomorphology: the nature and scale of human impact on landforms and landscapes, coastal and estuarine wetland environments in the Anthropocene, geographies of climate change, disasters and sustainable development in the Anthropocene, ecosystem services degradation in a changing environment, war impacts on ecosystem degradation, ecosystem services in mountain environments, grazing and animal disturbance, modelling the coupled human and natural systems, sustainable agriculture in steep-slope landscapes under climate change scenarios, the nexus of forest-water-service under a changing environment, and land-atmosphere coupling and climate change.