International Science Council

 World’s leading bodies of social and natural sciences to merge in 2018, becoming "International Science Council"

At a historic joint meeting, members of two leading international science councils voted to merge, launching a process that will see the formation of a single global entity called the International Science Council that unites the scientific community, including all social and natural sciences.
 

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ABOUT THE INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL FOR SCIENCE

The International Council for Science (ICSU) is a non-governmental organisation with a global membership of national scientific bodies (122 Members, representing 142 countries) and International Scientific Unions (31 Members).

ABOUT THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIAL SCIENCE COUNCIL

The International Social Science Council (ISSC), a membership-based non-governmental organization, is the primary global body representing the social sciences, including economic and behavioural sciences. Its mission is to strengthen social science to help solve global priority problems. Through its members and programmes, the ISSC reaches hundreds of thousands of individual social scientists working across a wide range of disciplines and representing all parts of the world.

IGU CGoG - 2018 Annual Conference - Fifty Years of Local Governance

2018 ANNUAL CONFERENCE

IGU Commission Geography of Governance

4 - 5 September 2018

 Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning

         University of Lisbon, Portugal

 Conference website ->

For information, contact:

Carlos Nunes Silva, IGU Commission Geography of Governance & Conference
Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning, University of Lisbon, Portugal

E-mail: igu.geogov@gmail.com

IGU THEMATIC CONFERENCE

Practical Geography and XXI Century Challenges

Moscow, Russia, June 4-6 2018 

Conference website: http://www.igras.ru/100igras/en/  

Session organized by the IGU Commission on Geography of Governance 

Local Governance for Local Development in the XXI Century:

Opportunities and Limitations 

Session chairpersons: Olga Glezer & Carlos Nunes Silva 

Call for papers: 1 December 2017 - 1 March 2018 (new date)

For additional information about the Session, contact:

             Carlos Nunes Silva, IGU Commission Geography of Governance
Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning, University of Lisbon, Portugal

             E-mail: igu.geogov@gmail.com  

The session on "Local Governance for Local Development in the  XXI  Century:  Opportunities  and  Limitations"  aims  to explore,  compare  and  draw  practical  lessons  from  the changes experienced by local government in different regions of  the  world,  in  the  Global  North  as  well  as  in  the  Global South,  with  special  attention  to  Russia,  in  the  last  quarter century. The session aims to explore the institutional changes and the challenges,  with  which  Local  Governance  has  been confronted,  in  particular  the  shifts  associated  with decentralization,  with  the  move  from  the  traditional hierarchical  model  of  government  to  networked  forms  of governance,  the  engagement  of  private  entities  in  local governance, the new forms of citizen participation, and the shift to forms of local e-government due to the increasing and widespread  use  of  information  and  communication technologies.  In  this  context,  quite  opposite  trends,  i.e.,  of centralization  implemented  in  Russia  and  other  countries need to be interpreted.

The  session  will  be  an  opportunity  for  discussions  of  the changes in local governance in the last two decades and half and the challenges currently confronting local governments around the world. Papers  should  seek  to  offer  a  comparative  focus  and  to provide practical lessons for countries and regions.

The session aims to address, but is not limited to the following issues:

(a) Central - local relations: trends, challenges and outcomes

(b)  Local  Government:  abolition  of  local  tiers  and  merger reforms

(c) Inter-Municipal cooperation

(d)  Metropolitan  Government  and  the  Governance  of  CityRegions

(e)  Privatization  ,  Public-Private  Partnerships  and  remunicipalisation of local public services

(f) Austerity and innovation in local governance

(g) Local e-Government: citizen (e-)participation

2018 IGU REGIONAL CONFERENCE - QUÉBEC



2018 INTERNATIONAL GEOGRAPHICAL UNION REGIONAL CONFERENCE

6 - 10 August 2018

Départment de Géographie

Pavillon Abitibi-Price, 2405, rue de la Terrasse
Université Laval, Québec (Québec)

E-mail: igu2018@ulaval.ca

Conference website: http://igu2018.ulaval.ca/ 

Doris Wastl-Walter, Past Chair IGU CGoG (2000-2008) and Honorary Member of its Steering Committee will be one of the Keynote Luminary Speaker. 

For information about the IGU Commission Geography of Governance participation in the Conference, contact: 

Carlos Nunes Silva - IGU Commission Geography of Governance
Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning, University of Lisbon, Portugal

E-mail: igu.geogov@gmail.com 

Sessions organized by the IGU Commission Geography of Governance
in the IGU Regional Conference 2018 - Québec 6-10 August 

1. Local government reforms and governance in recent decades: differentiation and harmonization of institutional models and policies

2. Government and citizen interaction: formal and informal modes of citizen participation and community engagement in local government policy

3. Spatial justice and the Right to the City: local government policies and governance practices sensitive to social and cultural diversity

4. The place-based development policy and the role of local government: difference as an advantage in local development

5. Planning and governance cultures at the sub-national level – exploring diverging trajectories within and across countries

6. Multi-level and transnational governance on the move: unpacking various approaches of governing territorial challenges

7. International cooperation networks of local and regional governments: different conditions and common goals

8. Secessionist movements in the context of 21st century politics: a local governance perspective

 

III International Conference 'Urban e-Planning'

 

III International Conference 'Urban e-Planning'

3 - 4 April 2018

 

International Journal of E-Planning Research

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Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning - University of Lisbon

 

Conference endorsed by the IGU Commission Geography of Governance

                                                 Contact: Carlos Nunes Silva

                                                                Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning          

                                                                University of Lisbon

                                                                E-mail:  ijepr.conference@gmail.com

 

 

2020 - 34th INTERNATIONAL GEOGRAPHICAL CONGRESS

 2020 - 34th INTERNATIONAL GEOGRAPHICAL CONGRESS

'Geography: bridging the continents'

 August 2020 - Istanbul, Turkey

 Conference website:  http://www.igc2020.org/en/

2017 Annual Conference IGU-CGoG - 'Local Governance in the New Urban Agenda'

2017 Annual Conference

IGU Commission Geography of Governance

 'LOCAL GOVERNANCE IN THE NEW URBAN AGENDA'

19-21 October 2017

University of Salento, Lecce - Italy

Conference website -> 

Conference flyer >

Call for Papers >

Full Program >

Abstracts >

For more information, contact Carlos Nunes Silva 
                          E-mail: igu.geogov@gmail.com