The Inaugural International Geographic Conference Sustainable Development in the Arab World: Trends and Prospects Faculty of Arts, Helwan University Cairo, Egypt Monday-Wednesday 27-29 April 2015

The Inaugural International Geographic Conferenceのお知らせです。

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The Inaugural International Geographic Conference
Sustainable Development in the Arab World: Trends and Prospects
Faculty of Arts, Helwan University
Cairo, Egypt
Monday-Wednesday 27-29 April 2015
Conference Languages: Arabic and English

Conference Themes:

I. Environmental and Natural Development in the Arab World
・ Trends of environmental development thinking in the Arab World
・ Different environment and development regions 
・ Development processes and environment improvement
・ Models and applications of the environment and development processes
・ A geomorphology agent: Man's role and effect on development processes
・ Coastal environment
・ Desert environment
・ Mountain environment
・ Plains environment
・ Climate changes and their effects on development processes
・ Natural reserves
・ Planning and developing water resources

II. Sustainable Social & Economic Development in the Arab World
・ Demographic development
・ Rural development
・ Urban development
・ Different services development
・ Agricultural development
・ Environmental development
・ Water resources development
・ Fisheries development
・ Pasture development
・ Development of inter-Arab trade resources
・ Development of industry and power
・ Tourism development

III. Sustainable Human Development in the Arab World
・ Demographic development
・ Economic development
・ Urban development
・ Development of public utilities and services
・ Application of human development indices

IV.  Sustainable Development in GCC Countries
・ Economic development
・ Inter-GCC integration
・ Power strategy
・ Inter-GCC countries trade

V. Sustainable Development in North, South & West African Countries
・ Water resources development
・ Tourism development
・ Fisheries development
・ Environment resources development

VI. Sustainable Development in Environment Sciences
・ Social sciences
・ Economic sciences
・ Political sciences
・ International relations
・ Humanities
・ Applied languages

VII. Sustainable Development in the Arab World: Problems & Prospects
・ Natural environment and its problems
・ Social development and its problems
・ Economic development and its problems
・ Prospects of sustainable development

How to present your research paper:

Acceptance of researches in the Inaugural International Geographic Conference
"Sustainable Development in the Arab World: Trends and Prospects" is subject to the
following conditions:

1.    The research should be relevant to one of the themes of the conference
2.    The research should adopt academic traditions, approaches and documentation
3.    The research should be new, and has not been presented in any other conference or for publication
4.    The researcher pledges that the research shall not be published or presented for publication in another journal 
5.    The research shall not exceed 40 pages, except for outstanding research works
6.    Researches shall be sent, refereed and accepted for publication according to the applicable rules of Helwan University Faculty of Arts Magazine available on the website:  http://www.helwan.edu.eg/new_arts/?page_id=1277
7.    Researches shall be sent and dealt with throughout the whole process of reviewing via e-mail
8.    The researcher shall send a personal photo and a one-page CV written in Simplified Arabic, font 14, with a 1.5 line space
9.    For non-Egyptians, a clear copy of a valid passport shall be sent for Entry Visa processing, providing that the research is accepted
10. An invitation to attend the conference shall be sent to the researcher whose research is accepted
11. Important dates to observe:

Research Acceptance Stages
Due Date

Receiving Abstracts 

15 November 2014

Acceptance of Abstracts
10 December 2014

Starting date to receive researches
15 January 2015

Deadline to receive researches
26 February 2015

Notification of accepting the research
1 March 2015

Heide Hackmann is the new ICSU Executive Director, Urban Health programme office opens

ICSU（国際科学会議）のニューズレターです。先日もお伝えしましたが、ISSC（国際社会科学協議会）事務局長のHeide HackmannさんがICSUの事務局長に決まったことのニュースなどがあります。

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Dr. Heide Hackmann to be ICSU Executive Director and Dr. Lucilla Spini, Head 
of Science Programmes
Heide Hackmann, a social scientist with extensive experience running 
international research organizations, will be Executive Director of the 
Council’s Secretariat from March 2015. Lucilla Spini, a biological 
anthropologist with experience in international science coordination will 
take on the newly created role of Head of Science Programmes in early 
January.

Hackmann joins the Council from the International Social Science Council 
(ISSC), where she has been Executive Director since 2007. During her tenure, 
she strengthened ISSC’s activity profile, membership base and financial 
position, and forged strong links with the International Council for Science 
through key partnerships. These include the Integrated Research on Disaster 
Risk programme and the Science and Technology Alliance for Global 
Sustainability, the consortium of international organizations that founded 
Future Earth, the new global research initiative on global sustainability, 
and coordinating inputs from the international scientific community on key 
policy processes at the United Nations.

Hackmann also led the launch of the regular World Social Science Forums and 
spearheaded the development of a new series of World Social Science Reports. 
She initiated a new global social science research funding and coordination 
programme on Transformations to Sustainability, which was launched in March 
2014 as a major contribution to Future Earth.

Announcing her appointment, Hackmann said that she felt “excited and 
grateful for the privilege to head the activities of ICSU, an organization 
with a long track record of strengthening international research 
collaboration, and now assuming a leadership role in securing effective 
collaborations between the sciences and with society in order to address 
global priority problems.”

Peter Liss will step down as Interim Executive Director of the International 
Council for Science, when Hackmann takes up her new role on 2 March, 2015.

President of the International Council for Science, Gordon McBean, said: 
“We are extremely pleased to announce Heide Hackmann’s appointment as 
Executive Director. During her tenure at ISSC, she has demonstrated her 
ability to rally scientists from both the natural and social sciences to 
work together to address some of the biggest challenges facing humanity. 
ICSU will benefit greatly from her leadership, vision, and ability to build 
bridges between different disciplines.” He added that the Executive Board 
was “confident that Hackmann will lead the Council to renewed strength and 
influence.”

Hackmann was born in South Africa and completed her PhD in Science and 
Technology studies at the University of Twente, Netherlands in 2003. From 
then until 2007 she was Head of the Department of International Relations 
and National Quality Assurance and Director: CO-REACH (an EU-funded 
multi-lateral initiative for the Coordination of Research between Europe and 
China) at the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW).

The Council also announced that Dr. Lucilla Spini will take on the newly 
created post of Head of Science Programmes, starting from 12 January 2015. 
In this role, she will manage the development and implementation of ICSU’s 
scientific and science for policy initiatives, as defined in its Strategic 
Plan. Spini is an Italian national who holds a B.A. in anthropology from New 
York University, as well as an M.Sc. in human biology and D.Phil. in 
biological anthropology, both from the University of Oxford. Since 2001, she 
has worked on science/policy bridging, global environmental change, 
sustainable development and research coordination for a number of 
international organizations, including UNESCO, UNU, and the FAO. She is 
currently a Giorgio Ruffolo Research Fellow in the Sustainability Science 
Program at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.





Urban Health and Wellbeing office opens in Xiamen, China
Led by the International Council for Science (ICSU), and co-sponsored by the 
United Nations University and the InterAcademy Medical Panel, the new 
programme will inform city planning, policies and design with science-based 
strategies and tactics to improve the health of billions of people living in 
fast-growing urban areas. It will also identify and help manage the 
unintended health consequences of urban policy and the connections between 
cities and planetary change.

The new programme ? which will be hosted by the Institute of Urban 
Environment at Chinese Academy of Sciences - will provide a hub for 
interdisciplinary scientific knowledge development, exchange and 
communication. It will support city leaders and managers to make informed 
policy decisions by providing scientifically based information on the costs 
and benefits of healthy urban system structures and better urban health. It 
will build capacity in scientific and other stakeholder communities to learn 
and apply systems methods and inform urban residents on healthy urban 
structures and ways to achieve and maintain better health.

The novelty of the programme lies in its systems approach, said Professor 
Anthony Capon of the United Nations University, calling it "a particularly 
effective way to understand and manage changing urban environments with 
profound implications for the way people live, work, learn, move and play, 
all of which have health implications."

President Gordon McBean, who was present at the opening ceremony on December 
9 of the international programme office, noted that the Council is leading 
on science for policy initiatives in 2015 through several key United Nations 
processes. “There is an important role for the scientific information on 
the human health-urban environment connections ? to the Sustainable 
Development Goals, to the post-2015 framework on Disaster Risk reduction. 
Future Earth is now underway with new efforts to co-design, co-produce and 
co-deliver knowledge on sustainability and there are scientific connections 
among IRDR, Future Earth and Urban Health and Well-Being.”

"One of the questions we need to address in this programme is "how many 
health risks are people willing to take for the benefits that come with 
urban lives?" Citizens and policymakers need to be able to make that 
decision and become active agents of urban change. This programme will 
support them in making these decisions," said Franz Gatzweiler, Executive 
Director of the programme.

"Human health in urban areas represents a growing concern worldwide but 
nowhere more so than in China, with recent WHO reports of millions of deaths 
worldwide each year from urban air pollution. Urgent action is needed to 
protect and promote health through improved urban planning and design,” 
said Yong-Guan Zhu, Director-General, Institute of Urban Environment, 
Chinese Academy of Sciences.

A two-day expert workshop bringing together around 60 experts was also held 
in Xiamen this week, hosted by the Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese 
Academy of Sciences.

The launch was covered by both the BBC and the Daily Mail (UK).

Note from the editors: Every issue of ICSU Insight highlights a project from 
the ICSU family. If you think a particular project should be considered for 
this, please write to insight@icsu.org.





New video: 2014 Young Scientists' Networking Conference

From 25-31 May, 30 young scientists from across the disciplines met at Villa 
Vigoni, the German Italian Centre for European Excellence in Menaggio, 
Italy, to work on their vision for a sustainable economy. In this video, 
they give an insight into the broad range of their research interests and 
their ideas for the future. Watch the video on our website.

The call for applications for the 2015 conference, on the topic of 'Future 
Sustainability - the role of Science in the Sustainable Development Goals' 
is still open until December 22nd.



Global conference on science advice to governments: final report available

The synthesis report of the first international conference of practitioners 
and scholars on Science Advice to Governments which took place in Auckland 
earlier this year is now available from the ICSU website. The conference, 
which took place in August ahead of ICSU’s General Assembly, was convened 
by the International Council for Science (ICSU) and hosted by New Zealand’s 
Chief Science Advisor Sir Peter Gluckman. It brought together some 200 
participants including science advisors, senior officials, representatives 
of national academies, experts and scholars from more than 40 countries 
across Africa, the Asia-Pacific region, Europe, the United States, Canada 
and Latin America.


CFRS supports scientists whose human rights are under threat as a result of 
scientific activity

The Chair of ICSU's Committee on Freedom and Responsibility in the conduct 
of Science, Leiv K. Sydnes, recently attended a court hearing in Turkey 
against the scientist Büşra Ersanlı. CFRS had monitored her situation since 
she was first imprisoned. Ersanlı, a faculty member in the Department of 
Political Science and International Relations at Marmara University in 
Istanbul, was arrested in October 2011 as part of a crackdown on Kurdish 
political parties. She was charged with suspected links to the Kurdistan 
Workers’ Party (PKK). Ersanlı was in fact a member of the Assembly of the 
Peace and Democracy Party (BDP), and she never advocated violence.



Junior Science Officer at the Integrated Research on Disaster Risk programme

Integrated Research on Disaster Risk (IRDR) is a decade-long research 
programme co-sponsored by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the 
International Social Science Council (ISSC), and the United Nations 
International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR). It is a global, 
multi-disciplinary approach to dealing with the challenges brought by 
natural disasters, mitigating their impacts, and improving related 
policy-making mechanisms.

The International Programme Office of IRDR in Beijing, China, is now 
recruiting a Junior Science Officer.


Call for contributions to the UN Global Sustainable Development Report 2015

The Global Sustainable Development Report (GSDR) is a United Nations 
publication aiming to strengthen the science-policy interface at the High 
Level Political Forum (HLPF) on Sustainable Development, which replaced the 
Commission on Sustainable Development after Rio+20 as the main United 
Nations platform providing political leadership and guidance on sustainable 
development issues at the international level.

The call for contributions invites scientists to bring their science issues 
and solutions to the attention of policymakers and participate in a 
conversation with them.

The contributions should address an issue, finding, or research with a 
bearing on sustainable development in its three dimensions ? economic, 
social, and environmental ? or the inter-linkages between them. Thus the 
focus could be on the review of up-to-date findings relating to a particular 
issue, address the single issue of importance, or present solutions to a 
problem or challenge. It could also present the 'story' of a research 
finding that has great policy relevance but is not typically considered in 
the policy debate. The briefs are to be factual and based on peer-reviewed 
literature. Contributions from both the natural and social science 
communities from all disciplines are highly valued and welcomed.

Find more information about the call on the UN Sustainable Development 
website. The deadline for contributions is January 20th, 2015.



Peter Liss is the new interim Executive Director of ICSU

Prof. Peter Liss has joined ICSU at the start of October as the Interim 
Executive Director of ICSU for the next months, until a permanent Executive 
Director is appointed. Liss is an environmental chemist with research 
interests in the interactions between the oceans and the atmosphere and 
their role in global change. He is a Professor in the School of 
Environmental at the University of East Anglia. Prof. Liss has been Chair of 
the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP) of ICSU, Chair of 
IGBP's SOLAS (Surface Ocean ? Lower Atmosphere) project and a member of the 
Future Earth Transition Team. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society and a 
member of Academia Europaea.



More than 1,000 delegates gather in Geneva for talks on global disaster risk 
reduction agreement

ICSU took part in the second preparatory session for the Third World 
Disaster Risk Reduction Conference at the UN in Geneva from Nov 17-18. As 
the organizing partner of the Science and Technology Major Group, ICSU 
convened a delegation of more than 20 representatives from Europe, Latin 
America, Asia, Africa drawn from research organizations, ICSU's IRDR 
programme and ICSU's Regional Offices and partner organizations such as the 
IAP.

The Science and Technology Major Group made a series of inputs via 
statements in the technical workshops and co-chairs dialogue on issues 
ranging from the contribution that science can make in the implementation of 
the Framework, the links between the post-2015 agenda and DRR and the 
integration of DRR with financing.



Future Earth Engagement Committee announced

Jairam Ramesh will chair the Committee, which will provide leadership and 
strategic guidance on engaging societal partners with Future Earth, ensuring 
that Future Earth provides the knowledge society needs.


ICSU publishes report of External Review Panel

The External Review Panel (ERP) was set up in mid-2013 to review the 
activities of ICSU which had not been reviewed since 1996. Terms of 
Reference and a timetable were agreed upon and a series of meetings set in 
order to deliver this report in good time for the General Assembly in 
Auckland from 31 August to 3 September, 2014. The full report with the 
Panel's findings is now available for download.



Landmark scientifc data conference ends with strong support of data sharing 
for sustainability

SciDataCon2014, the International Conference on Data Sharing and Integration 
for Global Sustainability, took place on 2?5 November in New Delhi, India. 
It was motivated by the conviction that the most significant research 
challenges?and in particular the pressing issues relating to global 
sustainability in the face of ongoing natural and human-induced changes to 
the planetary system?cannot be properly addressed without paying attention 
to issues relating to equitable access to quality-assured and interoperable 
datasets and their long-term management and preservation.



Call for nominations: ICSU Committee on Freedom and Responsibility in the 
conduct of Science

As a key policy committee, the CFRS safeguards and promotes the Principle of 
Universality of Science, one of the strategic priority areas of the 
International Council for Science. Nominations for individuals to serve on 
this Committee are now invited. With the replacement of about a third of the 
current membership, 6-8 new members are being sought.

Nominations should be summited using the form available from our website as 
soon as possible, but no later than Friday, 19 December 2014.



Invitation to ICSU Members to host the CFRS secretariat

The International Council for Science has launched a call to its Members to 
host the secretariat of the ICSU Committee on Freedom and Responsibility in 
the conduct of Science (CFRS).

As a key ICSU policy committee, CFRS safeguards and promotes the Principle 
of Universality of Science, one of the strategic priority areas of the 
International Council for Science. For its core activities, the Committee 
needs to rely on additional support. Since October 2010, the Swiss Academy 
of Sciences (SCNAT) has very generously hosted the CFRS Secretariat.

The International Council for Science has now issued a call to its members 
to consider hosting the CFRS Secretariat from October 2015 to ensure 
continuity of CFRS’s work.

Expressions of interest should be submitted no later than Friday, 23 January 
2015.


Asia Pacific

Urban Health and Wellbeing Systems Thinking Workshop, Xiamen, China

ICSU ROAP and its partners, the Institute of Urban Environment (IUE), 
Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the newly established International 
Programme Office on Urban Health and Wellbeing is conducting a systems 
thinking workshop for a team of Chinese researchers on 11 and 12 December 
2014, in Xiamen, China where the IUE is located. This will be the last 
activity organised by ICSU ROAP for 2014. A group at IUE, led by Professor 
Heqing Shen, is developing an urban air quality and public health pilot 
project that will adopt the systems approach. The workshop will build on an 
earlier systems thinking workshop that ICSU ROAP held in Kuala Lumpur in 
January 2013. The workshop will also introduce the new ICSU-UNU-IAMP 
International Programme on urban health and wellbeing, with its systems 
thinking and system dynamics approach, to a wider group of scientists.


More news from ICSU's Asia-Pacific Regional Office

Latin America & the Caribbean

Society and Nature

The workshop "Society and Nature: Dialogue between natural and social 
scientists on the challenges of sustainability" was organized by ICSU ROLAC 
and ISSC at the Brazilian Academy of Sciences, Rio de Janeiro, September 
30th ? October 1st, 2014.

The main objective of this workshop was to facilitate communication between 
natural and social scientists around energy issues, socio- environmental 
risks, urban mobility, and problems of poverty and growing inequality.

Second Latin-American Forum of Disaster Risk Reduction in Higher Education

On November 24-26, ICSU ROLAC organized the “Second Latin-American Forum of 
Disaster Risk Reduction in Higher Education” in Guanacaste, Costa Rica. 
Rüdiger Klein (Excecutive Director of IRDR) promoted aligning the strategies 
of DRR in the LAC region and IRDR. The previews of the Consultancy hired 
earlier this year were presented and an action plan of the Steering 
Committee was drafted.


Tokyo Conference on International Study for Disaster Risk Reduction and 
Resilience   Tokyo, January 14-16

World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction  Sendai, March 14-18


3rd Young Scientists Networking Conference on Integrated Science Menaggio, May 24-29

1st International Workshop on Supporting Future Earth with Global  Geo-information Beijing, June 9-10

2nd COSPAR Symposium: Water and Life in the Universe  Foz do Iguacu, November 9-13

David Stoddart passed away

カリフォルニア大学バークレー校のDavid Stoddart さんがお亡くなりになりました。

詳細は以下をご覧ください。

http://www.dailycal.org/2014/12/17/geography-professor-emeritus-david-stod

Sustainable Development Goals and the Post-2015 Development Agenda

国連大学からの連絡です。日本文は英文に続きます。
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Event Announcement
Sustainable Development Goals and the Post-2015 Development Agenda

DATE:
Friday, 16 January 2015, 1:00PM-6:00PM

LOCATION:
U Thant International Conference Hall, UNU Headquarters, 53-70 Jingumae 5-chome, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-8925, Japan

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The United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability (UNU-IAS) and Tokyo Institute of Technology cordially invite you to the symposium "Sustainable Development Goals and the Post-2015 Development Agenda" to be held at UNU headquarters in Tokyo on 16 January 2015.

As we near the deadline of the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in 2015, the global post-2015 development agenda ? which will address challenges remaining after the MDGs and the Sustainable Development Goals, which must also respond to various emerging issues ? is currently under discussion. The new goals are expected to be adopted at the UN General Assembly in September 2015.

This event aims to report on ongoing discussions regarding the post-2015 developmet agenda, consider possible goals and targets towards 2030 and look into indicators to assess the progress of their implementation. It will also address implementation challenges faced at the global and national levels, which will lead to discussion of sustainable collaboration between the science community, local governments and the private sector.

This event will be held as part of the Japanese Ministry of the Environment's S-11 Environment Research and Technology Development Fund on POST2015.

Japanese-English simultaneous interpretation will be provided.

For more information and the event program, please see the event announcement on the UNU-IAS.
Register

We look forward to welcoming you to this event.

Contact
United Nations University
Office of Communications
53-70 Jingumae 5-chome
Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-8925

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シンポジウム「持続可能な開発目標（SDGs）とポスト2015年開発アジェンダ～国際論議の現状と
実施へ向けた課題」開催

日時:
2015年1月16日 午後1:00～6:00

場所:
国連大学 ウ・タント国際会議場（〒150-8925東京都渋谷区神宮前5-53-70）
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国連大学サステイナビリティ高等研究所（UNU-IAS）と東京工業大学（環境省環境研究総合推進
費S-11）は、2015年1月16日（金）に「持続可能な開発目標（SDGs）とポスト2015年開発アジェンダ～国際論議の現状と実施へ向けた課題」と題した公開シンポジウムを開催します。

ミレニアム開発目標（MDGs）の達成期限である2015年以降の国際開発目標として、2015年9月の
国連総会で「ポスト2015年開発アジェンダ」が採択される予定です。MDGsで積み残された課題に
加え、2000年以降深刻化した新たな課題に対応すべく「持続可能な開発目標（SDGs）」が統合さ
れ、全ての国を対象とした国際目標が決定されます。本シンポジウムでは、これに関連する国内
外での議論や交渉の最新動向について報告を行い、2030年目標、ターゲット、それらの進捗を測
る指標のあり方を考えます。また、関連する国際・国内政策実施へ向けた課題を検討することで、科学および自治体、企業などとの持続可能な連携のあり方について議論を行います。

本イベントは、日本語から英語への同時通訳があります。

プログラム及び詳細については、UNU-IASのウェブサイトをご覧ください。
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お問合せ
国連大学 広報部
〒150-8925
東京渋谷区神宮前5-53-70

高校地理教育 勉強会の案内

高校地理教育　勉強会の案内

高等地理教育検討ＴＦ第2回勉強会は、来る1月7日（水）16時から国土地理院関東地
方測量部におきまして、国土地理院長の小池剛氏を講師として行います。小池院長
は、土木工学専攻であり、国土交通省において防災関連の業務をした経験が豊富であ
ることもあり、地理教育の必要性を強く認識していらっしゃいます。防災関連のこと
を含め、興味深いお話が聞けるのではないかと思います。また、関東地方測量部測量
成果閲覧室では、旧版地図を含め、各種の測量成果の閲覧・謄本交付をしています。
早めにお越しいただき、勉強会の前に閲覧室をご覧になるのもよいかと思います。ど
うぞお誘合わせの上、ご来場ください。

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日時：平成27 年1 月7 日（水） 16 時～18 時

第1部 16 時～17 時 講演
第2部 17 時10 分～18 時 意見交換

場所： 国土地理院関東地方測量部 地震予知連絡会 大会議室
             東京都千代田区九段南1-1-15 九段第二合同庁舎 8 階

講師：国土交通省国土地理院院長 小池 剛 氏

定員：50 人

お申し込み： 12 月26 日（金）17 時まで
定員になり次第締め切り。

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国際第四紀学連合第１９回大会　

　締切を2015年１月８日 (木)に延期．学生・院生への登録料免除申請も受付けていますので，
投稿をお勧めください．

１．登録，投稿システム
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２．巡検
プレ巡検が３件，中日の１日巡検が14件，ポスト巡検が15件．この中に，韓国済州島のプレ巡検
が１件，台湾のポスト巡検が１件含まれる．申し込みは料金確定に時間がかかり，確定分は12月
20日から巡検申し込みを開始．

３．参加支援
　ECR (Early Career Researcher 学位取得後７年以内か，取得見込みの院生)に対し，INQUA大会への航空賃補助や登録料免除を行っている．Financial Assistanceとして募集中．学生と院生には登録料免除の申請の受付を行っている．詳細は大会の日本語のホームページに記載．　日本語のページ： http://inqua2015.jp/j/
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今後の予定
2015年1月8日：要旨投稿と参加援助の募集締め切り
2014年2月上旬：受理・不受理の連絡
2014年2月末：早期登録料の締め切り．投稿者の登録料支払いの締め切り
2014年3月末：巡検申し込みの締め切り（プレとポスト）
2014年4月末：巡検申し込みの締め切り（中日１日）
2014年4-5月：プログラムの最終確定：登録者に連絡
2014年7月27日～8月2日：国際第四紀学連合第１９回大会
INQUA Nagoya 2015
http://inqua2015.jp
https://www.facebook.com/INQUA2015

EUGEO 2015 の参加登録開始

EUGEO 2015 の参加登録が開始しました。

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Dear Colleague,

On behalf of the organizing committee of the EUGEO 2015 Congress 
we would like to inform you that early registration for the congress is now open.

For further details please visit the website of the congress: 
www.eugeo2015.com

Best regards,

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http://eugeo2015.com
http://eugeo2015.com/registration

The 9th International Congress of Gis and Geospace Applications Geo-Tunis 2015

以下の連絡が届いております。

参加申し込みの締め切りは2015年1月15日です。

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The 9th International Congress of Gis and Geospace Applications Geo-Tunis 2015 Hammamet /Tunis from 01 to 05 April 2015

Call for paper 

We warmly invite you to submit as soon as possible the abstract of your proposal to
The 9th International Congress of Gis and Geospace Applications Geo-Tunis 2015 Tunis
Hammamet from 01 to 05 April 2015.

The deadline for submission of proposals is 15 January 2015. Proposals may be submitted in English, French, and Arabic. 

Detailed instructions for submitting your proposal are available at 
<http://www.geotunis.org> www.geotunis.org by following link 
<http://www.geotunis.org/?page_id=2144> .

Please encourage friends and colleagues to submit their own abstracts and give us a hand in publicizing the news of Gis and Geospace Applications among your contacts and in all possible newspapers and magazines, websites, blogs, Facebook profiles,
etc.

 <http://www.geotunis.org> www.geotunis.org

 

Remind: the deadline for submission of proposals is on January 15, 2015

THE 7th INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM on GEOGRAPHY

THE 7th INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM on GEOGRAPHYの案内が来ました。

リンク情報は未完のものがありますが（12/11在）、フォローいただければと思います。

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FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS

　
We are pleased to invite you at THE 7th INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM on GEOGRAPHY ”Landscapes: Perception, Knowledge, Awareness and Action”, 29-31 May 2015, Bucharest and Constanta, Romania Please find more information on website:
http://www.geosymposiumlandscapes.ro/

The papers will be published in Proceedings Landscapes: Perception, Knowledge,
Awareness and Action, Addleton Academics Publishers, New York, U.S.A.
(http://addletonacademicpublishers.com/images/stories/2012.pdf ). 

The Proceedings book is recorded in Library of Congress Online Catalog (please find
attached), and it is indexed and/or abstracted in:
・        CSA Worldwide gScience Abstracts
・        CEEOL
・        DeepDyve
・        EBSCOhost
・        EBSCO Discovery Service
・        Gale
・        International Bibliography of the Social Sciences
・        International Political Science Abstracts
・        Index Islamicus
・        Political Science Complete
・        ProQuest
・        Ulrich's Periodicals Directory
・        Universe Digital Library
・        Contemporary Science Association Databases
It will be an honour to have you among us.
We would appreciate very much that you could pass this information to other
colleagues with interest on this topic.

Best regards,
The Organizing Committee

Madalina-Teodora ANDREI, PhD.

Call for Applications: DFG/ICSU/ISSC Young Scientists Networking Conference

DFG/ICSU/ISSC Future Earth Young Scientists Networking Conference on Integrated
Science

DFG/ICSU/ISSCの若手会議のお知らせが来ました。

5月24-30日にイタリアで開催されるそうです、ふるって参加ください。

DFG: German Research Foundation

ICSU: International Council for Science

ISSC: International Social Science Council

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Call for Applications

Future Sustainability ? the Role of Science in the Sustainable Development Goals

 

Dear Members,

 

The third DFG/ICSU/ISSC Young Scientists Networking Conference on Integrated Science
will be held at Villa Vigoni, Italy from May 24-30, 2015. 

 

Please click on the links below for full information:  

 

http://www.worldsocialscience.org/activities/networking-conferences-for-young-scientists/call-for-applications/

 

http://www.worldsocialscience.org/activities/networking-conferences-for-young-scientists/future-sustainability/

 

The call can be downloaded here:

http://www.worldsocialscience.org/documents/call-applications-future-earth-networking-conference-young-scientist-2015.pdf


Please distribute this information to young scientists you think may be suitable for
attendance at the conference.

 

The deadline for receipt of applications is December 22nd.

 

Best wishes,

_______________________________________________________________

Maureen
International Council for Science (ICSU) 

12/17－18 2015年アムール・オホーツクコンソーシアム第四回会合に向けた国際ワークショップ

2015年アムール・オホーツクコンソーシアム第四回会合に向けた国際ワークショップ

日時：　2014年12月17日（水）-12月18日（木）

場所：　北海道大学　スラブ・ユーラシア研究センター大会議室403 

札幌市北区北9条西7丁目　

会場へのアクセス

参加申込不要（当日会場へお越しください）

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来週の12月17－18日にアムール・オホーツクコンソーシアムの代表者会議を札幌にて開催いたします。

日本・中国・ロシア・モンゴルから関係者が来日し、外務省、環境省、科学技術振興事業団、国連NOWPAP、北海道開発局、北海道開発局などの国内関係者と共に、オホーツク海の持続的な利用と保全について協議します。

オープンな会議ですので、市民の皆さんにも参加を呼びかけました。詳しくは以下のリンクをご覧ください。

2015年アムール・オホーツクコンソーシアム第四回会合に向けた国際ワークショップ
http://amurokhotsk.com/?page_id=1482&lang=ja

今夏（2014年）取りまとめたオホーツク海保全に向けた最終報告
http://amurokhotsk.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/mitsui-final-report-2014a.pdf

オホーツク海の越境環境保全に向けた認識共同体の構築と実践

アムール・オホーツクコンソーシアムによる、三井物産環境基金 2011-2013最終報告書「オホーツク海の越境環境保全に向けた認識共同体の構築と実践」が公開されています。

http://amurokhotsk.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/mitsui-final-report-2014a.pdf

2015年アムール・オホーツクコンソーシアム第四回会合に向けた国際ワークショップ

日時：　2014年12月17日（水）-12月18日（木）

場所：　北海道大学　スラブ・ユーラシア研究センター大会議室403 

札幌市北区北9条西7丁目　Tel: 011-706-2388（直通）

会場へのアクセスはこちらのHPをご覧ください：

http://src-h.slav.hokudai.ac.jp/center/srcmap-j3.html

＊参加申込不要（当日会場へお越しください）

主催：　

北海道大学 低温科学研究所 環オホーツク観測研究センター

北海道大学 スラブ・ユーラシア研究センター

共催：

総合地球環境学研究所

使用言語：　ロシア語・中国語・モンゴル語から日本語への逐次通訳
 

セッション：

セッション1　 アムール・オホーツク地域の環境・持続可能な発展に関する進展

セッション2　 アムール・オホーツク地域の持続可能な未来へ向けての提案

セッション3　 2015年ハルビンでの国際会合へ向けて
 

実行委員：

江淵　直人 北海道大学低温科学研究所・所長

児矢野　マリ　北海道大学大学院法学研究科・教授

白岩　孝行 北海道大学低温科学研究所環オホーツク観測研究センター・准教授

笪　志剛　黒龍江省社会科学院東北アジア研究所・所長

田畑　伸一郎　北海道大学スラブ・ユーラシア研究センター・教授

オユンバートル　ダンバラジャ　モンゴル気象水文研究所・主任研究員

ピョートル　バクラノフ　ロシア科学アカデミー極東支部太平洋地理学研究所・所長

（50音順）

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お問い合わせ先
北海道大学 低温科学研究所 環オホーツク観測研究
センター内 アムール・オホーツクコンソーシアム事務局
電話： 011-706-7664　Fax： 011-706-7142
Email： ao-consortium[at]pop.lowtem.hokudai.ac.jp

XIX INQUA 2015, NAGOYA, JAPAN. 27 July－2 August, 2015

2015年7月27日-8月2日に，第19回国際第四紀学連合大会（XIX-INQUA）が名古屋で開催されます．
この大会において地形セッションを設けましたのでお知らせします．ご発表およびご参加をお待ちしております．

 詳細は下記ホームページをご覧下さい．

↓INQUA2015大会
http://inqua2015.jp/

↓INQUA2015　Geomorphologyセッション
http://convention.jtbcom.co.jp/inqua2015/session/t18.html

なお，日程等は下記のようになっております．いずれも世界標準時ですのでお間違えのないよう，ご注意下さい．

日程：
アブストラクト〆切り　2014年12月20日
早期登録・発表者登録〆切り　2015年2月28日

参加費：
（一般）
Early　(2015/2/28まで）　60000円
Regular (2015/6/30まで）　75000円
Late/On Site　100000円

（学生）
Early/Regular (2015/6/30まで）　25000円
Late/On Site　40000円

（一日券）
On Site only 40000円

詳細は以下をご覧下さい．
http://convention.jtbcom.co.jp/inqua2015/registration.html

セッションコンビーナ
Takashi Oguchi [University of Tokyo]
Christopher Gomez [University of Canterbury] 
Kyoko S. Kataoka [NiigataUniversity] 
Masayuki Seto [Fukushima University]

Future Earthの「戦略的研究アジェンダ2014」の公表

2014年12月3日、フューチャー・アース（以下FE）の科学委員会、暫定関与（連携・啓蒙）委員会が準備してきたSRA2014（戦略的研究アジェンダ2014）が公表されましたのでお知らせいたします。

http://www.futureearth.org/media/strategic-research-agenda-2014

フューチャーアースとは？

European Association of Geographersからのニュース

EUROGEOは活発に活動されでいます、以下ニュースです。 ----- Spatial Citizenship Course SPACIT Training Course Free Download  The work of the Comenius Multilateral Project called Spatial Citizenship (SPACIT) for teaching in secondary schools has just been finalised.  The main outcome is a multi-lingual training course for teachers, educators and teacher trainers either available for face-to-face study or online in project partner languages - English, German, Italian, Turkish and Romanian.  The online courses are now available for download. Find out more

What Is SPACIT? Active, Constructive, Participative Citizenship With Geo-Media Spatial Citizenship is about ‘learning how to navigate this world in respect to a) the physical world, b) the meanings attached to physical objects and environment c) the power relations involved in the production of meaning’. Find out more

Keeping Up-To-Date On SPACIT Follow the project on social media and via the Web SPACIT continues to develop through social media online and via courses, workshops and training to be held in the coming months. Follow Spatial Citizenship on social media to keep up to date. @SpatialCitizens on Twitter, Spatialcitizenship on Facebook and through the project Web site.

Citizenship With Geo-Media Download the main project outcomes  A series of SPACIT publications, leaflets, books and reports are available for download from the SPACIT Web site. These include a Competence Model which is connected to the curriculum of the course as well as presentations about the activities of the project. Find out more

11/11 福島原発事故に関するセミナー

渋谷の国連大学で福島原発事故に関するセミナーが開催されます。

http://ias.unu.edu/jp/events/upcoming/monitoring-impacts-and-communicating-health-risks-after-fukushima.html

日時：2014/11/11 1000-1300

場所：国連大学本部エリザベス・ローズ国際会議場

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Event Announcement

Monitoring Impacts and Communicating Health Risks after Fukushima

DATE: Tuesday, 11 November 2014, 10:00AM-1:00PM

LOCATION: Elizabeth Rose Hall, UN University Headquarters, Tokyo

The United Nations University Insitute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability (UNU-IAS) cordially invites you to attend the seminar "Monitoring Impacts and Communicating Health Risks after Fukushima", to be co-organized with the UN Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation. This event will start at 10:00 AM on 11 November 2014.

The nuclear accident of March 2011 at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant has had wide-reaching environmental, social and economic impacts. The health risks posed by the accident have been among the key concerns both in Japan and other countries, and are expected to remain the focus of public attention for many years to come. By their very nature, issues related to radiation are both relatively “unusual” and highly technical for the general public. How to monitor effectively the health impacts and communicate associated health risks thus represent key questions that scientists, experts and practitioners are facing in the process of dealing with the legacy of the disaster.

This public seminar will explore challenges and lessons learned in the process of monitoring health impacts and communicating health risks after the nuclear accident at Fukushima Daiichi. It aims to promote open discussion incorporating perspectives from science, practitioners, civil society and the affected population.

The event will take the form of a panel discussion followed by interactive discussion with the audience.

Japanese-English simultaneous interpretation will be provided.

For more information and the event programme, please see the event announcement on the UNU-IAS website.

We look forward to welcoming you to this event. 

EUROGEOのニュース

EUROGEO (European Association of Geographers) の情報です。

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Latest Geo News

 Welcome to the latest newsletter from EUROGEO

The newsletter brings information about an award winning geographer, the latest issue of the European Journal of Geography, news on the 2015 EUROGEO conference and the release of global high resolution data sets. The work of EUROGEO is highlighted in the Council of Europe and as part of the GeoSkills Plus project.  This month you can also find out about a new book on Teaching and Learning with Geo-media, the Barbara Petchenik Map Competition, the T3G institute and International Mountain Day.

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EJG 2014, Issue 3

Issue 3 of the European Journal of Geography is just published and free to download. The Journal now on Scopus, s based on the European Association of Geographers’ goal to make European Geography a worldwide reference and standard. The latest issue contains seven articles on historical analysis, wildfire risk assessment, location analysis, social perception, communicating climate change, catchment approaches and Belgrade tourism.

EUROGEO Conference 2015

 "Communicating Geography: serving our world" 21-22 May 2015

The 2015 EUROGEO Annual Meeting and Conference will be organised in conjunction with and hosted by the Turkish Association of Geographers (TAG), in Ankara on 21-22 May 2015. An optional field excursion to Cappadocia will take place all day on 23 May 2015. Call for sessions and abstracts very soon.

Geographer wins award

The 2014 winner of the Volvo Environment

Prize, Professor Eric Lambin, is a remote sensing pioneer using advanced data collection and satellite images to understand land use and the influence of humans on the planet. His research has focused on trying to bridge two disparate communities? remote sensing scientists and human ecologists.  For more information about the winner and the Volvo Environment

Prize:  http://www.environment-prize.com

High-Res Data Released

The White House announced they are going to release the high-resolution images of SRTM globally. This release of 30m x 30m imagery is available globally and accessible on EarthExplorer

http://earthexplorer.usgs.gov.

Climate Change, Human Rights

EUROGEO as an International NGO (INGO) with participatory status in the Council of Europe is involved with working group on Climate Change and Human Rights.  This group has prepared the INGO's position paper up to the COP15 to be held in Peru before the 2015 Paris conference as announced by UN. Download the position paper

European cooperation for vocational training

The GeoSkills Plus Project looks at the state of geo-employment and the labour market across Europe. Geo Skills Plus is a joint project with national surveying organisations from Belgium, Bulgaria, Lithuania and the Netherlands. The European umbrella organisations of Surveyors (CLGE) and geographers (EUROGEO) are partners in the project.

Learning & Teaching with geo-media

This new publication is a product of the Digital-eath.eu Project. It provides a theoretical and practical introduction to the field. It is explicitly aimed at secondary education. Introducing the dimensions of the emerging geoinformation society and dedicated to teacher trainers and teachers.

Childrens Map Competition

The International Cartographic Association and the Commission on Cartography and Children invite you to participate in the next Barbara Petchenik Map Competition 2015, an event created with the aim of promoting the creative representation of the world in graphic form by children. In 2015, this biannual international award has a special connotation, because it is organized on the frame of activities programmed within the International Map Year. The theme is '“My place in today’s world". Deadline May 1st 2015.

International Mountain Day

In 2013 the United Nations General Assembly designated 11 December “International Mountain Day”. This aims to create awareness about the importance of mountains to life, to highlight the opportunities and constraints in mountain development and to build alliances that will bring positive change to mountain peoples and environments around the world. Mountain Farming is the theme chosen for this year’s celebration.

Why, Where Matters?

EUROGEO Members GeoEconomy have published "Why 'Where' Matters". This book examines why geospatial perspectives and geography matters. The tag line is "Practical Advice for Individuals,

Communities, Companies and Countries.".

Free Geo-ed articles

Taylor & Francis is offering for free until the end of 2014 a collection of articles highlighting some of the newest research in geography education. Articles are: Teaching Geography, Climate Change Education, The Importance of Fieldwork, Using and Teaching GIS.

GIS Day 2014

Have you participated in a GIS Day before? If not why not get involved, or even organise an event this year? The theme for 2014 is Discovering the World Through GIS, it takes place on November 19,

2014. You can register your event at http://www.gisday.com/ or find out what is happening near you. GIS Day is part of Geography Awareness Week.

T3G Institute

Applications for Esri's "Teachers Teaching Teachers GIS" 2015 institute are invited. T3G seeks 100 enthusiastic educators and influencers who want to help other educators grasp why and how to use GIS in instruction. The focus is on USA, with particular attention to K12 (given Esri's commitment to ConnectED, http://connected.esri.com), However, applications are also welcome from international educators. Apply by November 24 2014.