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Session: Sessions on Applied Geography topics
Chair(s): Robert Stimson & Kingsley Haynes
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Session: Human-Nature Interaction in Arid Lands and their Margins
Chair(s): Olaf Bubenzer & Mahmoud Ashour
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Session: Climate Change and Land Use Effects on Species, Communities and Ecosystems: Indian Subcontinent and the Himalayas
Chair(s): Udo Schickhoff & R.B. Singh
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Session: Climate change and variability in different spatial and temporal scales
Chair(s): Nigel Tapper
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Session: Weather and Climate Extremes
Chair(s): Zbigniew Ustrnul
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Session: Applied Climatology in 21 Century
Chair(s): Ana Monteiro
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Session: Potential Impacts of Climate Variability and Change on Agriculture
Chair(s) Julie A. Winkler
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Session: Urban climates
Chair(s): Arieh Bitan & Hadas Saaroni
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Session: Joint session CoC-IGU MRP: "Climate change in the areas with Mediterranean climate: characteristics, mitigation and adaptation"
Chair(s): Annick Douguedroit
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Coastal Systems - Coastal erosion and management
Chair(s): Hervé Regnauld
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Coastal Systems - Sea-level rise and impacts
Chair(s): Helmut Brückner
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Coastal Systems - Coastal monitoring
Chair(s): Andreas Vott
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Coastal Systems - Beaches and dunes
Chair(s): Norb Psuty
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Coastal Systems - Rocky coasts
Chair(s): Wayne Stephenson
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Session: Contextualising climate change: methodological, institutional and regional responses
Chair(s): Tatiana Vlasova & Nancy Doubleday
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Session: Connecting Changes in Peri-glacial Regions, Permafrost and People
Chair(s): Nancy Doubleday & Tatiana Vlasova
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Session: Cultures and sustainability
Chair(s): Benno Werlen
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Session: Cultural Approaches in Social and Geographical Theory
Chair(s): Benno Werlen
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Session: Globalization and the Change of Place Identity in East Asia
Chair(s): Je-Hun Ryu & Shangyi Zhou
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Session: Multilocality: symbolic and material constructions of space in societies of mobile individuals
Chair(s): Mathis Stock & Michaela Schier
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Session: The Uses of Art in Public Space
Chair(s): Julia Lossau & Quentin Stevens
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Session: Spatialities of Art: between policy and politics
Chair(s): Anne Volvey & Myriam Houssay-Holzschuch
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Session: Cultural approaches to Sacred Spaces in the global era
Chair(s): Rubén C. Lois-Gonzáles, Valeriá Paül-Carril & Miguel Pazos-Otón
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Session: IGU Commission on the Dynamics of Economic Spaces: Emerging Economic Spaces
Chair(s): Neil Reid, Michael Taylor & Christine Tamasy
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Session: Human-Environment Interactions and Evolution in the Late Pleistocene and Holocene
Chair(s): Fahu Chen, Loukas Barton, Bernhard Weninger,  Andrei Velichko
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Session: Gender and Geography
Chair(s): Robyn Longhurst
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Session: State of the Art in Geography Education
Chair(s): Simon Catling & Alexandra Budke
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Session: Students‘ Interests of Geographical Topics, Regions, and Methods
Chair(s): Gabriele Obermaier & Sirpa Tani
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Session: Preconceptions in Geography and Geography Education
Chair(s): Fernando Alexandro & Sibylle Reinfried
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Session: Examples of Best Practice in Geography Education and Teacher
Chair(s): Michael Solem & Christiane Meyer
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Session: Innovative Learning - New & Traditional Media
Chair(s): Daniela Schmeinck & Joop van der Schee
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Session: Standards, Concepts and Experience
Chair(s): Joseph Stoltman & Armin Rempfler
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Session: Education for Sustainable Development & Global Learning
Chair(s): Yvonne Schleicher & Osvaldo Muñiz
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Session: Spatial Thinking
Chair(s): Sarah W. Bednarz & Detlef Kanwischer
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Session: Risk Education
Chair(s): John Lidstone & Gregor Falk
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Session: Urbanization in Geographical Education
Chair(s): Lex Chalmers & Péter Bagoly-Simó
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The commission will have a pre-conference before the IGC 2012. For further information visit http://www.sdh2012.org.
 

Session: Governance - key theoretical and methodological issues, main research directions
Chair(s): Ján Bucek & Shannon O'Lear
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Session: Innovations in public sector - public administration reforms, public sector reorganizations, local finance and progress in planning
Chair(s): Eran Razin & Xiaohong Zhang
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Session: Governing development in regions, cities and rural communities
Chair(s): Andrew Ryder & Pushkar K. Pradhan
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Session: Mediterranean Information Society
Chair(s): Maria Paradiso & Mark Wilson
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Session: Global Information Society
Chair(s): Mark Wilson & Maria Paradiso
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Session: Information and communication technologies for development and human well-being: perspectives from six continents
Chair(s): Dorothea Kleine & Mark Wilson
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Session: Global Change and Tourism: Socio-Cultural Issues
Chair(s): Jarkko Saarinen & Alan Lew
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Session: Tourism and Global Environmental Change: Climate Change Issues
Chair(s): Michael Hall & Jarkko Saarinen
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Session: Tourism and Regional Development
Chair(s): Dieter Muller & Dallen Timothy
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Session: Sustainability and tourism development
Chair(s): Jie Zhang & Carolin Funck
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Session: Transforming Tourism Geographies in the Global South
Chair(s): Sanette Ferreira & Gustav Visser
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Session: Tourism Mobilities and Urban Space
Chair(s): Anne-Marie d'Hauteserre & Julie Wilson
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Session: 'On the move': Geographies of digital Spaces
Chair(s): Nicolai Scherle & Julia Walla
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Session: Global climate change, economic crisis and human mobility
Chair(s): Armando Montanari & Yoshitaka Ishikawa
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Session: Global climate change, economic crisis and human mobility
Chair(s): Armando Montanari & Yoshitaka Ishikawa
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Session: Hazard and risk for future mitigation - Paper session
Chair(s): Shigeko Haruyama, Dale Dominey-Howes, Victor G. Jetten & Juergen Weichselgartner
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Session: Hazard and risk for future mitigation - Poster session   
Chair(s): Shigeko Haruyama, Dale Dominey-Howes, Victor G. Jetten & Juergen Weichselgartner
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Session: Earthquake and Tsunami special sesssion
Chair(s): Shigeko Haruyama & Dale Dominey-Howes   
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Session: Vulnerability and Resilience
Chair(s): Shigeko Haruyama & Juergen Weichselgartner
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Session: Health Geography and Public Health
Chair(s): Helmut Brandt & Sarah Lovell
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Session: Health Geography, Vulnerability and Global Risk
Chair(s): Wuyi Wang & Andreas Rechkemmer
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Session: Access to Care
Chair(s): Mark Rosenberg & Sarah Atkinson
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Session: Global Health and Disease Surveillance
Chair(s): Thomas Krafft & Svetlana Malkhazova
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Session: Ground truths: Advancing children’s geographies through including children as researchers
Chair(s): Christina Ergler & Robin Kearns
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Session: "Society and Environment: conceptions and representations of nature(s) in the history of geography”
Chair(s): Bruno Schelhaas & Jacobo García-Álvarez
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Session: Human/Nature-interaction on small islands – an integrative geography perspective
Chair(s): Beate M.W. Ratter, Phil Steinberg & Huei-Min Tsai
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Session: Human impacts and environmental changes in karst
Chair(s): Ugo Sauro & Ilona Bárány-Kevei
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Session: Management and conservation of karst landscapes
Chair(s): Elena Trofimova & Michael Day
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Session: Land Degradation and Desertification in the context of Global Environmental Change: Management, Vulnerability, and Policy
Chair(s): Guðrún Gísladóttir & Paul F. Hudson
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Session: Land Degradation and Geomorphology: Monitoring, Assessment, and Theory Development
Chair(s): Paul F. Hudson & Guðrún Gísladóttir
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Session: Forest fire effects on soil-vegetation dynamics, erosion and land degradation
Chair(s): Lea Wittenberg & Paul F. Hudson
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Session: Session on Land Use and Land Cover Change
Chair(s): Ivan Bicik
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Session: Session on Land Use and Land Cover Change 2
Chair(s): Ivan Bicik
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Session: Session on Land Use and Land Cover Change 3
Chair(s): Ivan Bicik
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Session: Session on Local Development
Chair(s): Michael Sofer
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Session: Marginality in a Globalizing World
Chair(s): Nel Etienne & Walter Leimgruber
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Session: Interpretations of Marginality
Chair(s): Nel Etienne & Walter Leimgruber
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Session: Regional and Local Responses to Marginality
Chair(s): Nel Etienne & Walter & Leimgruber
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Session: Spatial statistics and Applications
Chair(s): Manfred Fischer                                                   
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Session: Geocomputations and Applications
Chair(s): Thérèse Steenberghen & Stewart Fotheringham
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Session: Modeling Human and Physical Processes
Chair(s): Pavlos Kanaroglou & Jinfeng Wang   
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Session: Spatial Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
Chair(s): Yee Leung & Ali Bennasr
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Session: Microsimulation of Geographical Systems
Chair(s): Graham Clarke
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Session: Mountain Ecosystem Response to Global Change
Chair(s): Joerg Loeffler & Anders Lundberg
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Session: From Himalayan Dilemma to Climate Change Dilemma? Challenges for high mountain development
Chair(s): Hermann Kreutzmann & Teiji Watanabe
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Session: Mountain Environment and Rural Livelihoods in the Tropical Andes: Local Responses to Global Change
Chair(s): Perdita Pohle & María Fernanda López
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Session: Vegetation response to climate change in tropical mountain ecosystems and consequences for biodiversity and land-use options
Chair(s): Achim Bräuning & Aster Gebrekirstos
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Session: Environmental history and climate change in the high mountain ecosystems of Monsoon Asia during the Late Holocene
Chair(s): Jussi Grießinger & Eryuan Liang
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Session: Political Geography 1
Chair(s): Anton Gosar & Paul Reuber
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Session: Political Geography 2
Chair(s): Anton Gosar & Paul Reuber
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Session: Political Geography 3
Chair(s): Anton Gosar & Paul Reuber
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Session: Population geography in a post-census world
Chair(s): Etienne Piguet & Findlay Allan
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Session: Demographic divide
Chair(s): Paul Gans & Findlay Allan
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Session: Producing migration and ‘representing’ the migrant
Chair(s): Findlay Allan
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Session: Sustainability of Rural Systems in Localities and Regions
Chair(s): Ana Maria Firmino & Ana Maria Bicalho
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Sustainability of Rural Systems in Global Economic and Environmental Issues
Chair(s): Doo-Chul Kim & Scott Hoefle
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Session: Urban social tranformations: contested social spaces
Chair(s): Ludger Basten & Lienhard Lötscher
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Session: Conceptualising regional governance in Chinese mega-urban regions
Chair(s): Werner Breitung & Gu Chaolin
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Session: More complex urban systems
Chair(s): Christian Matthiessen & Céline Rozenblat
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Session: Large scale transport infrastructure and regional and urban impacts
Chair(s): Richard Knowles & Christian Matthiessen
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Session: Water resources and climate change
Chair(s): Claudio Cassardo & J.A.A. Jones
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Session: Water and mining (Water pollution)
Chair(s): Frank Winde & NN
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Session: Water in urban environments
Chair(s): Kazuki Mori & Frank Winde
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Session: Water resources and management, hydrological budget and hydraulic emergencies
Chair(s): Changseng He & Olga Eugenia Scarpati
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Session: Hydrological Process and Watershed Management in Arid Regions
Chair(s): Chansheng He & N.N.
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Session: Large scale transport infrastructure and regional and urban impacts
Chair(s): Richard Knowles & Christian Matthiessen
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Session: Port hinterlands and urban logistics
Chair(s): Yves Boquet & Theo Notteboom
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Session: Global Change
Chairs: Nodar Elizbarashvili & Kirill Chistjakov
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Session: Session on Geoparks
Chair(s): Wie Dongying
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C10.38 IGU/ICA Commission/Working Group on Toponymy

Session: Place names as markers and ingredients of space-related identity
Chair(s): Peter Jordan & Cosimo Palagiano
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Session: Reading the landscape on the ancient maps
Chair(s): Cosimo Palagiano & Paulo Marcio Leal de Menezes
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Session: Governance and informality
Chair(s): Frauke Kraas & Desheng Xue
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Session: Securing resources
Chair(s): Frauke Kraas & Günter Mertins
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Session: Multiple risks and vulnerability
Chair(s): Frauke Kraas & Martin Coy
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Session: Towards a democratic Maghreb-Mashrek? / Vers un Maghreb-Mashreq démocratique?
Chair(s): Maria Paradiso & Ali Toumi
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Session: Recent developments of geography of energy
Chair(s): Maria Paradiso & Stan Brunn
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