Call for Abstracts: IGC 2024 Sub-forum of IGU-AGLE
The 35th International Geographical Congress (IGC) will be held in Ireland in August 2024. The theme of the congress is “Celebrating a World of Difference”. The IGU Commission on Agricultural Geography and Land Engineering (IGU-AGLE) set up a sub-forum on "Sustainable Land Use and Agricultural Development under Global Uncertainties". We sincerely invite geographers around the world to participate in the "Sustainable Land Use and Agricultural Development under Global Uncertainties" sub-forum under the C02 Forum to share and exchange scientific research results.
The IGU-AGLE commission was officially established on December 29, 2016. Professor Yansui Liu, a distinguished researcher at the Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, assumed the inaugural chairman. Eminent scholars from the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Australia, Sweden, Thailand, Pakistan, and other nations served as deputy chairs and commission members.
——✦ Sub-forum Introduction ✦——
Title: Sustainable Land Use and Agricultural Development under Global Uncertainties
Organizer: IGU Commission on Agricultural Geography and Land Engineering
Convener:
Yansui Liu, Professor, Chair of IGU-AGLE, IGSNRR, CAS, China
Guy Robinson, Professor, Co-Chair of IGU-AGLE, University of Adelaide, Australia
Weilun Feng, Associate Professor, IGSNRR, CAS, China
——✦ Abstract Submission ✦——
Presentation type: oral paper or poster presentation
Call for Abstracts Closes: Friday 12th January 2024
Notification of Authors: Monday 19th February 2024
Submission Website: https://igc2024dublin.org/call-for-abstracts
Friendly Reminder: Participants attending this forum, if not registered, are kindly requested to register first before submitting abstracts. Upon login, please select "C.02: Agri Geography / Land Engineering" and "Sustainable land use and agricultural development under global uncertainties" under the Congress Commission and Session categories in the abstract submission system.
For any inquiries, please contact Dr. Weilun Feng at fengwl@igsnrr.ac.cn.
——✦ Forum Topic ✦——
The world is undergoing profound changes unseen in a century. Under the global changes and COVID-19pandemic, global uncertainty is increasing, global issues such as land degradation, energy and food security, and climate change have further intensified. In this context, global land use and agricultural development are facing unprecedented challenges and opportunities, and the world's agriculture is constantly faced with complex "agricultural, land and rural diseases". On the other hand, the scientific application of modern science and technology in agriculture has led to dramatic changes in their development patterns, and land consolidation have been carried out around the world, especially in developing countries.
With human-earth system science as the theoretical foundation and land engineering as a key tool, there is a challenge to deepen scientific research on sustainable land use and agricultural development to meet the 2030 global sustainable development goals. Therefore, there is an urgent need for scientific recognition of the new human-earth and urban-rural relations in the post-epidemic era, as well as a new concept of global and regional system governance and a new model of sustainable development.
The forum aims to explore experiences and exchange research results on land consolidation, poverty reduction, agricultural models, and rehabilitation at the global and local levels, to provide recommendations for decision making on sustainable land use and agricultural development. It will include research papers and reports related to the conference topics, and will illustrate research by members of one of the youngest IGU commissions (founded in 2016).
The forum welcomes submissions on various topics, including but not limited to:
l Modern human-earth relations and human-earth system science
l Land consolidation engineering and sustainable land utilization
l Agricultural geographic engineering and transformative development strategies
l Constructing rural living environment & beautiful-harmonious countryside
l Rural areal system transformation processes and mechanisms
l Rural revitalization scenario simulation and path exploration
l Rural geographic engineering and rural development models