Committee

Scientific Committee

Chairs:

• Bojie Fu (IGU Vice President; Honorary Dean at Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, China; Research Centre for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)

• Michael Meadows (IGU President; University of Cape Town, South Africa)

Members (in alphabetical order by surname)

• Holly Barcus (IGU Vice President and Treasurer; Geography Department, Macalester College, USA)

• Fahu Chen (Institute of Tibet Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Science, China)

• Min Chen (Chair of IGU Modeling Geographical Systems Commission; School of Geography, Nanjing Normal University, China)

• Wei Deng (Institute of Mountain Hazards and Environment, Chinese Academy of Science, China)

• Monica Dumitraşcu (Chair of IGU Commission on Land Use and Land Cover Change; Institute of Geography, Romanian Academy, Romania)

• David Eldridge (School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Australia)

• Pankaj Kumar (IGU Assistant Secretary-General; Department of Geography, University of Delhi, India)

• Chansheng He (Department of Geography, Environment, and Tourism, Western Michigan University, USA)

• Jianping Huang (College of Atmospheric Sciences, Lanzhou University, China)

• Nathalie Lemarchand (IGU First Vice President; Université Paris 8, UFR eriTES Département de Géographie, France)

• Jianguo Liu (Director of the Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability, Michigan State University, USA)

• Yansui Liu (Chair of IGU Commission on Agricultural Geography and Land Engineering; Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Science, China)

• Yonglong Lu (College of the Environment and Ecology, Xiamen University, China)

• Ming Luo (Key Laboratory of Land Consolidation and Rehabilitation, Ministry of Natural Resources of the People’s Republic of China)

• Takashi Oguchi (Chair of IGU Commission on Hazard and Risk; The University of Tokyo, Japan)

• Valerià Paül (Co-Chair OF IGU Commission on the Sustainability of Rural Systems; Department of Geography, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain)

• Peijun Shi (Beijing Normal University, China)

• Hanqin Tian (Earth and Environmental Sciences Faculty, Boston College, USA)

• Ya Ping Wang (Chair in Global City Futures at the School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Glasgow, UK)

• Bingfang Wu (Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)

• Cunde Xiao (Director of State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology, Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, China)

• Matija Zorn (Chair of IGU Commission on Land Degradation and Desertification; Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Slovenia)

Organizing Committee

Chairs:

• Changqing Song (Dean at Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, China)

• Guoyou Zhang (Vice President of the Geographical Society of China)

Secretary General

• Wenwu Zhao (Chair of IGU Commission on Geography for Future Earth: Coupled Human-Earth Systems for Sustainability; Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, China)

Vice Secretary General

• Chiyuan Miao (Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, China)

• Yan Li (Secretary General of IGU Commission on Geography for Future Earth: Coupled Human-Earth Systems for Sustainability; Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, China)

• Shurong Zhang (Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, China; Geography and Sustainability)

• Xuanzi Zhang (the Geographical Society of China)

• Haiqing Huang (State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology, China)

Members (in alphabetical order by surname):

• Jonathan Adams (School of Geographic and Oceanographic Sciences, Nanjing University, China)

• Örjan Bodin (Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Sweden)

• Emmanuelle COHEN-SHACHAM (Lead of Nature-based Solutions Thematic Group, Commission on Ecosystem Management (CEM), International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN)).

• Xiangzheng Deng (Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)

• Xiaobin Dong (Vice Dean at Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, China)

• Carla Ferreira (Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra, Portugal)

• John Gibson (Department of Economics, University of Waikato, New Zealand)

• Fanhua Kong (School of Geography and Ocean Science, Nanjing University, China)

• Xiangbin Kong (College of Land Science and Technology, China Agricultural university, China)

• Jing Li (School of Northwest Institute of Historical Environment and Socio-Economic Development, Shaanxi Normal University, China)

• Long Li (School of Public Policy & Management, China University of Mining and Technology, China)

• Yanxu Liu (Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, China)

• Jian Peng (College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University, Beijing)

• Hualou Long (Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)

• Nan Lu (Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)

• Yihe Lv (Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)

• Gabriela Morosanu (Chair of IGU Young and Early Career Geographers Working Group on Geography and Sustainability; Institute of Geography, Romanian Academy, Romania)

• Walter Musakwa (Department of Geography, Environmental Management and Energy Studies, University of Johannesburg, South Africa)

• Regis Musavengane (Department of Tourism, University of Johannesburg, South Africa)

• Jian Sun (Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Science, China)

• Fanhua Kong (Nanjing University, China)

• Paolo Tarolli (Department of Land, Environment, Agriculture and Forestry, University of Padova, Italy)

• Jun Wang (Key Laboratory of Land Consolidation and Rehabilitation, Ministry of Natural Resources of the People’s Republic of China)

• Shuai Wang (Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, China)

• Xutong Wu (Co-Chair of IGU Young and Early Career Geographers Working Group on Geography and Sustainability; Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, China)

• Haipeng Yu (Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences,  China)

• Shaoyao Zhang (College of Geography and Resources Science, Sichuan Normal University, China)

• Yangjian Zhang (Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)