International Geographical Union

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The International Geographical Union ( English International Geographical Union ; French Union geographique internationale ), IGU for short , is an international scientific organization for the promotion of geographic research and the global umbrella organization for the national geographic societies involved. She is a member of the International Science Council (ICSU) and the International Council for Social Sciences (ISSC).

history

International geographical congresses have been held regularly since 1871, the IGU itself was founded in Brussels in 1922 and became a member of the predecessor organization of the International Science Council the following year. The IGU's first regional conference took place in 1955. From 1964 there was close cooperation with the International Cartographic Association . Their announcements appeared in the IGU's publication organ, the IGU Bulletin , and the scientific congresses of both associations were held at the same place. At the beginning of the 1980s, the collaboration on these aspects was resolved again. The organization's archive was initially located in London, and from 2002 in the Villa Celimontana in Rome. It can now be found at the Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography in Leipzig .

International geographical congresses

Areas of responsibility

The self-declared objectives of the IGU are:

  1. to encourage the study of geographic problems;
  2. To initiate and coordinate geographic research that requires international cooperation, as well as to promote the scientific discussion of the same and its publication;
  3. ensure the participation of geographers in the work of key international organizations;
  4. facilitate the collection and dissemination of geographical data and records within and between member countries;
  5. to promote international geography congresses as well as regional conferences and specialist symposia that are related to the aims of the IGU;
  6. to participate in any other suitable form of international cooperation which aims to advance the exploration and application of geography;
  7. to promote the international standardization or compatibility of methods, designations and symbols used in geography.

structure

The central body of the IGU is the general assembly, consisting of the delegates of the member countries, which meets every four years on the occasion of the international geographic congresses. Those of the approximately 100 member countries whose committees are formed by scientific societies are full members and have the right to vote for the offices of the IGU countries in which there is no suitable scientific society Affairs.

The Executive Committee consists of the President, the Secretary General and Treasurer and nine Vice-Presidents (eight elected as such, including the direct deputy of the President and the President of the previous legislative term). They are each elected for four years, whereby the president cannot be re-elected, the general secretary and the vice-presidents each once.

Individual subject areas are worked out in smaller working groups, especially in the commissions, which each cover specific subject areas. For the coordination of special international projects such as the International Geography Olympiad , the task force has also been in existence since 1998 .

List of presidents

List of General Secretaries

Lauréat d'Honneur

The IGU awards a prize of honor ( Lauréat d'Honneur ) to people who have either achieved an exceptional position in the professional world or who have performed special services for the IGU or international geographic research.

Prize winners:

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ George Kish, 1992, pp. 225-226.
  2. ↑ Walter Manshard, 1983, pp. 247-249
  3. ↑ Newsletter from February 2002 , accessed on December 3, 2011
  4. ↑ IfL makes files of the World Geography Association available to the public. Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography, September 9, 2015, accessed on January 10, 2020 .
  5. ↑ International Geographical Union in the Yearbook of International Organizations online , accessed December 3, 2011
  6. ↑ Objectives of the International Geographical Union ( English ) Retrieved on December 3, 2011.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.igu-online.org  
  7. ^ A b Statutes of the International Geographical Union . Retrieved on December 3, 2011.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.igu-online.org  
  8. ↑ Adalberto Vallega, 2004, p. 61.

Remarks

  1. ^ The Congress met in succession in Washington, DC , Philadelphia , New York City , Chicago and St. Louis .
  2. ↑ postponed from 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic

literature

  • George Kish: International Geographical Union. A brief history . In: GeoJournal . tape 26 , no. 2 , 1992, ISSN  0343-2521 , pp. 224-228 (English).
  • Walther Manshard: The International Geographical Union (IGU) . In: Geographical Journal . tape 71 , no. 4 , 1983, ISSN  0016-7479 , pp. 247-251 .
  • Adalberto Vallega: Geography and the International Geographical Union. In Search of the Route . In: Petermanns Geographische Mitteilungen . tape 148 , no. 6 , 2004, ISSN  0031-6229 , p. 54-63 (English).

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