The AMU Faculty of Human Geography and Planning cordially invites you to the IGU CDES Conference. The event will take place on 16-18 September under the theme Geopolitical Turbulences, Environmental Challenges and the Reconfiguration of Economic Spaces.
Over long periods, natural, social and economic environments have changed quite slowly, with only occasional, relatively short but severe crises. Under such circumstances, economic systems and actors were able to adapt their structures and operations effectively. Recent years, however, have been marked by sudden and recurring shocks that significantly shattered the global economy, demanded more complex and faster responses from different economic actors, and rearranged economic spaces. The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted the world economy and triggered a significant global economic crisis. The far-reaching consequences of the pandemic included, among others, a slump in financial markets and shortages of numerous consumer goods and commodities. Shortly afterwards, the Russian aggression against Ukraine led to further economic turmoil across geographies, resulting from increased food insecurities and poverty, especially in the most vulnerable places of the world. In addition, geopolitical turbulences related to the USA-China tensions and the migration crisis arising in various regions of the world further extended the long list of significant contemporary challenges. Needless to say, increasingly intense environmental problems such as climate change, soil degradation, resource depletion, and biodiversity loss, have raised even more doubts about the sustainability of the predominant economic growth model.
All these geopolitical, environmental and economic developments have miscellaneous geographical manifestations that increasingly attract scholars' attention. Owing to these developments, relevant changes take place and can be observed on different spatial levels and in different economic sectors and organizations that are trying to adapt to new circumstances.
Despite academic efforts to take an economic geography perspective on the reconfiguration of economic spaces resulting from contemporary geopolitical turbulences and environmental challenges, many issues seek further attention and scrutiny.
More information about the event, including key dates, can be found on the AMU Faculty of Human Geography and Planning website.
Source: AMU Faculty of Human Geography and Planning website.
photo by Stanisław Szewczyk
