Аннотация:International Geographical Union Regional Conference
will be held in Moscow on 17–21 August 2015
The 2015 IGU Regional Conference will focus on five main themes:
1. Urban ecology
2. Polar studies
3. Climate change
4. Global conflict
5. Regional sustainability
The program of the 2015 IGU Regional Conference is focused on diversity and interdisciplinary dialogue.
It will include the following meeting formats:
• sessions organized by IGU commissions,
• sessions on relevant interdisciplinary themes proposed by groups of scholars,
• thematic sessions devoted to IGU projects and to the role of geography in international programs such as Future Earth,
• plenary sessions and lectures by leading geographers as well as specialists from other earth sciences and the humanities, lectures by practitioners from a wide variety of fields.
The main deadlines for the International Geographical Union Regional Conference in Moscow are the following:
15 October 2014 – Deadline for submitting session proposals
01 November 2014 – Early registration begins
31 January 2015 – Deadline for submitting abstracts for papers and posters
01 March 2015 – Notification of the results of the abstract review
20 March 2015 – Publication of the provisional conference program
10 April 2015 – Deadline for early registration fee payment
10 June 2015 – Deadline for regular fee payment
17-21 August 2015 – IGU Regional Conference in Moscow
The IGU/LUCC Commission C12.26 submitted the proposal of a session during the Regional Conference of IGU, Moscow, Russia, 17-21.08.2015 under title “Problems and consequences of land use/land cover changes”.
The Organizers of IGU/LUCC sessions are: professor Ivan Bičík, Charles University in Prague Ivan Bičík, Head of the IGU/LUCC Commission, and Dr.Elena V. Milanova, Moscow State University, Faculty of Geography.
The aims of IGU/LUCC Commission sessions will allow:
• To promote geographical research on land use/cover changes, at scales ranging from the local to the global;
• To stimulate the production and the use of land-use information bases of both the present and the past;
• To coordinate the comparative study and the model study of land use/cover changes and their driving forces in different regions.
The Welcome topics of presentations are:
- Evaluation of the LUCC data, accuracy assessment
- GIS as a tool for the LUCC evaluation
- Participation on the next Atlas of LUCC development from different parts of the world
- Progress in remote sensing technics and methodology
- Driving forces in the LUCC changes in different periods of societal development
- Care for agricultural and arable land for the future
- Agricultural abandonment and increase of unproductive land – problem of developed countries
- Unproductive lands – their structure and development
- New wilderness – why, where, when