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Australia From Space

 

Cooperating Australian Groups

Assisting in the project are two groups in Australia: the Geographical Society of New South Wales and Australian International Geographical Union Local Planning Committee.

The Geographical Society of New South Wales is a professional society whose members are geography academics, high school teachers and other practicing geographers, from both public and private spheres.  The Society's mission is to advance geographical scholarship in New South Wales and throughout Australia. It is a professional organization dedicated to the promotion, support and, when necessary, the defense of geography, geographical research and education. It is an advocate for geographical contributions to the policy formulation for, and the management of, environmental and social issues in Australia.  Dr. Bruce Ryan from the Geographical Society of New South Wales is the contact person for the Australia from Space project.

The Brisbane IGU 2006 Regional Conference is being organized by the Australian International Geographical Union Local Planning Committee and the meeting focuses geographical attention on critical physical and human processes driving global change. Complex, global-scale processes exert pressures on environmental, social, cultural and economic resources at regional and local scales both between and within nation states. Such pressures encourage societal division and undermine practical efforts to enhance the sustainability of human society. The Conference will take up this challenge by focussing on regional responses in a changing world, with emphasis on equatorial and tropical zones, particularly in south-east Asia and the south-west Pacific.

Steering Committee: Professor John Holmes, University of Queensland (Chair); Professor Richard Bedford, University of Waikato; Professor Ruth Fincher, University of Melbourne; Professor David Gillieson, James Cook University; Professor Peter Holland, University of Otago; Professor Jamie Kirkpatrick, University of Tasmania; Professor Richard Le Heron, University of Auckland; Professor Warren Moran, University of Auckland; Professor Phillip O'Neill, Newcastle University; Professor Nigel Tapper, Monash University

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