Proposed Topics – IGUEGYPT2025

Proposed Sub-Themes, Sessions and Topics

The conference will include plenary, oral presentations, and poster sessions.

The main theme contains sub-themes of the participating commissions under which sessions will be held from 12 to 15 April, 2025.

The sub-themes and sessions are defined upon the areas of interest of the 11 confirmed participating IGU commissions.

Other sessions for sub-themes will also be nominated upon the received accepted abstracts.

Proposed topics:

The topics are derived from the specialties and sub-themes of the commissions. The topics will be arranged to abide with the participating commissions’ sub-themes to which the abstracts will by directed by participants.

The expected topics could be around the following titles but not limited to them:

Proposed main commissions Sub-Themes:

Note: By clicking on the name of the commission, the names of the sessions appear

1. 01 African Studies Commission: Development endeavors, sustainability, justice needs and geographic issues of African Countries.

African borders and borderlands
Africa and climate change
Africa and natural resource use/management
African development challenges and trajectories
Conflict, war and development
Environmental issues and challenges in sub-Saharan Africa
Geopolitics and the geographies of war and terrorism
Globalisation, Africa and marginality
Migration, development and regional integration
Post development geographies in Africa
Regional Integration in Africa and Changing Global Balances
Urban Transition in Africa
Water resources management and governance

IGU-COMMISSION-ON-AFRICAN-STUDIES-SESSIONS-FOR-EGYPT_2025.pdf

2. 04 Biogeography and Biodiversity Commission : Contemporary trends, expansions, perspectives, and approaches of biogeography.

Effects of climate change and land use change in the world’s mountain regions
Conservation biogeography: current challenges in conserving biodiversity
Recent developments and expansions in biogeography
Environmental change and biodiversity in the context of Africa and Arabia

3. 07 Cold and High Altitude Regions Commission : Mountainous resources, development management and sustainability in cold and high altitude regions environments:-

Rapid Cryospheric Changes and Sustainable Development

Conveners: Shichang Kang, Yulan Zhang, Tatiana Vlasova

High Altitude Transboundary Headwater Governance for Increasing Water Access, Managing Conflict and Improving Climate Resilience in Highlands and Lowlands

Conveners: Prakash C. Tiwari, V. P. Sati, Tatiana Vlasova..

4. 15 Geography of Governance Commission : Local Governance and the Challenges of Sustainability.

Local Government Reforms in a Changing World: trends, challenges and prospects.
Local Governance in the Middle East and North Africa Region.
Local e-Governance: the role of Geo-Spatial Technologies in the governance and planning of cities and other human settlements.
Conveners: Prof. Dr. Jeffrey McNeill, Prof. Dr. Anna Trono, Prof. Dr. Carlos Nunes Silva, and Prof. Dr. Verna Nel.

5. 26 Karst Commission : Geomorphology and hydrology of karst, and natural - human hazards, and anthropogenic impacts on sustaining karst terrains.

6. 27 Land Degradation and Desertification Commission : Effects of natural and human environmental change on land degradation and desertification, and practical and theoretical efforts for its sustainability.

7. 29 Land Use and Land Cover Change Commission : Land-use, land-cover changes and their driving forces in the view of global and local changes.

8. 31 Local and Regional Development Commission : Empirical, policy issues of local and regional development in different national and institutional contexts for sustainability resilience in changing world.

9. 32 Marginalization, Globalization, and Regional and Local Responses Commission: "Perspectives on globalization and marginality in emerging economies"

Inequality as a consequence of globalization
Health issues and vulnerability in marginal regions
Educational challenges of marginal societies
Informal settlements and lack of infrastructure in a globalized society
Perceptions of nature in rural and urban marginal societies
Discrimination of women and its cultural background
Marginalization in border areas

Conveners: Prof. Dr. Walter Leimgruber, Prof. Dr. Borna Fuerst Bjeliš, and Dr. Kim Kessler.

10. 33 Mediterranean Basin Commission : Challenges and prospects in the evolving Mediterranean coastal and marine scenery.

Sessions will be co-organized by: Prof. Dr. Anastasia Stratigeia and Prof. Dr. Mohamed Alouat

Current and emerging challenges in the Mediterranean (e.g. climate change, water poverty, evolving energy scenery, demographic changes, migration patterns) and related impacts.
Developments in the green and blue economy.
Land- and maritime-based spatial developments and planning.
Land – marine interaction (ports, fishing, tourism, energy, etc.).
Smart, sustainable and resilient island communities.
Coastalization/Touristification/Overtourism trends in coastal/insular regions.
Sustainable and resilient exploitation of land and underwater cultural heritage.
Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and their applications in pursuing sustainability and resilience objectives in coastal and marine space.

11. 34 Modelling Geographical Systems Commission : Big data modeling, simulation methods, AI technologies for geographic research, pattern analysis and process exploration.

12. 42 Urban Commission : Challenges of urban regions facing rapid future urbanization and transformational change, and requirements of resilience and well-being in cities:-

Cities as drivers of, and driven by, transformational change

Cities, urban systems and nation states

Urban areas under pressure of transformation

Climate change, resilience, urban health and well-being

Governance, institutions, urban policy

Proposed sub- topics:

Advancing geographic knowledge, research, emerging concepts, approaches and methods.
Anthropogenic climate, human causes of environmental and biospheric global changes.
Awareness on geographical education and promoting citizenry.
Capacities of economic and services geographies in changing world.
Communitywise, social, cultural, demographic changes and shifts.
Compulsory, illegal, irregular and conflicts migration.
Connections between power, politics and spaces from political geography perspectives, and on discursive praxis, globalization, politics of climate change, territorialisation and on recent major military-political disputes.
Consequences of global and climatic changes & sustainability.
Coupling human and natural system and sustainability on international and worldwide level.
Cultural perspective for geographical changes and sustainability.
Disaster risk reduction, risk reduction and risk management in human and physical dimensions.
Driving processes affecting rural and countryside areas systems sustainability and resilience.
Drought, desertification, difficulties in agricultural security and food supply.
Dynamics of green and blue economic spaces and growth on national and alliances contexts.
Eliminating rural, urban environmental problems, poverty, scarcity in fresh water and sanitation .
From sustainable development to sustainable environment.
Geodiversity, geographical heritage sites, geomonuments, geoparks and tourism.
Geographic and literature analyses of place names.
Geography of information, innovation and technology and impacts on knowledge and economy.
Geomatics applications and applied geography.
Global change effect in tourism and Leisure sustainability on local development.
Global shifts in markets &buisiness, decent work and economic growth.
Globalized nature of daily life, global understanding for sustainability and pressing global issues.
Guarantee peace, justice, and strong institutions.
Human-landscape interaction, geoarchaeological, geomorphological records and dynamics.
Influence of irresponsible consumption and production on major changes in global economy.
Interactive human and physical coastal systems and coastal zone use and management.
Interdisciplinary mountain research, on social and natural characteristics and montology systems.
Islands development studies on natural and human diversity issues.
Latin American, Caribbean sustainable development experiences in changing geographic circumstances.
local manifestations of human mobility in relation to global changes and its reflection on development.
Marginalization and globalization-driven inequality societies in differing economic, political, social and environmental changing conditions.
Philosophy, history of geography and cartography and historical geography.
Political changes, power shifts and sustainable supply chain management.
Population vulnerability, difference, changes, behaviors and demographic components, policy relevant to solve societal, economic and physical crisis tied to higher cost of living.
Promoted service of GIS for smart city and human mobility and natural and human emergencies.
Quality education in digital and AI age.
Reflections of informality in urbanism, economy, settlements and employment on social change and instability.
Rural-urban sustainable relations and human-natural transformations.
Socio-political issue of sustainable tourism.
Sustainabil health equity justice and local and global changes.
Sustainability of water resources, water development work, fostering links between human and physical aspects of water management.
The impact of the (COVID-19) pandemic and changing behavior.
Sustainable urban transition , public policy governance, city persistence, humanism , facility developments, smart growth and and urban diversity.
The persecution of women and children & reduce inequality.
Trans-boundary landscape, cultural landscape, and landscape planning and sustainability .
Transforming economic geography and risky local and global changes.
Transport issues and smart, contemporary autonomous technology and clean affordable energy.
War impact on society, economy, infrastructure, innovation and political partnership.
Other sub-topics.

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