SUSTAINABLE LAND USE AND LAND MANAGEMENT: EMERGING TRENDS, CURRENT CHALLENGES, AND EUROPEAN SOLUTIONS
Online Symposium
16th May 2025
The Symposium is structured as follows:
Key Lectures: Focused on topics of mutual interest to all participants.
Thematic Sessions: Papers presented by contributing speakers.
We invite submissions that address, but are not limited to, the following topics:
- Emerging trends in sustainable land use management in the EU
- Policies and regulations impacting European land use management
- Impacts of climate change on land use, land management, and biodiversity conservation in the EU
- Sharing best practices in land management for agriculture and forestry
- Innovative methods and tools for understanding key drivers of land use changes and land use behaviours in Europe
- Climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies with relevance to agriculture and biodiversity conservation in the EU
- Modelling future land use and land cover changes in the EU under various scenarios
- Methods and tools to enhance stakeholder engagement and community involvement in sustainable land management, including Living Labs initiatives
Abstracts should be submitted by 30th March 2025 to Dr. Mihaela Sima at simamik@yahoo.com
You can register to the event here (with or without abstract submission):
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1NYsCkPiAifyWvLnE436uDmC6n8P1Iuqi4DoVFN_Nbkg
EGYPT THEMATIC CONFERENCE 2025 
Egypt, April 12–19, 2025
We are proud to announce the official announcement of the IGU Annual Excellence Awards at the IGU General Assembly at the IGC Dublin.The 2023 Award has been jointly received by two IGU Commissions: Land Use and Land Cover Change and Local and Regional Development.Chairs: Monica Dumitrascu and Ines Grigorescu from the Institute of Geography, Romanian Academy.
ABOUT COMMISSON
The International Geographical Union (IGU) established a new Study Group on Land Use and Land Cover Change (IGU-LUCC) in November 1996. The major aim of the Study Group was the enhancement of research on land use/cover change in general, and in particular to contribute to the Land Use/Cover Change Programme (LUCC) jointly initiated by the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP) of the International Council of Scientific Unions (ICSU) and the International Human Dimensions Programme (IHDP) of the International Social Science Council (ISSC). The birth of the new Study Group was the result of the growing awareness among the world geographical community of the urgent need to include land use/cover change in global environmental research.
The IGU General Assembly held during the IGU 2002 Regional Congress in Durban abolished the distinction in status between a commission and a study group. This means that IGU-LUCC became the 'IGU Commission on Land Use and Land Cover Change' (C00.29).
Objectives:
- to promote the study of land-use change throughout the world as a geographical research focus;
- to stimulate the production and the use of land-use databases and maps of both the present and the past;
- to co-ordinate the comparative study of land-use changes and their driving forces in different regions;
- to contribute to the LUCC Program.
Chair of Land Use and Cover Change Commission
Monica Ştefania Dumitraşcu
Institutul de Geografie al Academiei Române, Bucureşti
E-mail: stefania_dumitrascu@yahoo.com
Members of the Steering Committee 2024-2028
1. Barasa Bernard, Uganda (barasagis@gmail.com)
2. Ajay Gurjar, India (saymeaj@gmail.com)
3. Monika Kopecká, Slovakia (monika.kopecka@savba.sk)
4. Lucie Kupková, Czechia (lucie.kupkova@gmail.com)
5. Kohei Matsunaga, Japan (komats-a@fc.ritsumei.ac.jp)
6. Marco Neubert, Germany (m.neubert@ioer.de)
7. Raffaela Gabriella Rizzo, Italy (RaffaelaGabriella.Rizzo@unicatt.it)
8. Daniela Alexandra Teixeira da Costa Ribeiro, Slovenia (daniela.ribeiro@zrc-sazu.si)
9. Lianqi Zhu, China (lqzhu@henu.edu.cn)
Honorary members
Prof. Yukio Himiyama
Hokkaido University of Education, Past President, International Geographical Union
Sapporo, Japan
Prof. Ivan Bičík
Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Science
Prague, Czech Republic
E-mail: ivan.bicik@natur.cuni.cz
dr. Matej Gabrovec
Anton Melik Geographical Institute, Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts
Ljubljana, Slovenia
E-mail: matej@zrc-sazu.si
dr. Dan Bălteanu
Institute of Geography, Romanian Academy
Bucharest, Romania
E-mail: dancbalteanu@gmail.com
Secretary
Gheorghe Kucsicsa
e-mail: mondy_ghe@yahoo.com
Web page administrator
Matjaž Geršič
e-mail: lucc@zrc-sazu.si
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