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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.