The Jena Meeting
The Jena Meeting: Understanding the Global Age
May 12-14, 2011
Sponsored by the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture the IYGU Steering Committee, the Scientific Committee and the Outreach Committee gathered in Jena to establish the final program and the key steps of its implementation, just in the aftermath of the Fukushima disaster. According to the IYGU program, natural and social scientists, as well as scholars from the humanities have to make people understand that most such events are social rather than natural disasters formed one of the departure points.
First and foremost, they are the outcome of inadequate knowledge and actions, and the consequences of actions. Such events demonstrate that we need to better integrate natural and social-scientific research, as well as insights from cultural sciences and the humanities. This has been fixed as one of the main goals of the IGU Initiative for an International Year of Global Understanding in the age of global change.
To this the following key action fields of the IYGU with responsible authors were drafted:
List of Participants
Prof. Ron Abler (U.S.A, President, International Geographical Union)
Karl Donert (UK, EUROGEO– European Geographers’ Association)
Prof. Georg Gartner, (Austria) President, International Cartographic Association
Prof. Dr. Yukio Himiyama (Japan, International Geographical Union)
Prof. Dr. Alik Ismail-Zadeh (Russia, International Geophysical Union)
Prof. Vladimir Kolossov (Russia, President-Elect International Geographical Union)
Prof. Sebastian Lentz (Germany, President, IGU National Committee for Germany)
Prof. Reinhard Mechler (Austria, IIASA, Laxenburg, IPCC Special Report)
Prof. Bruno Messerli (Switzerland, Executive Director, UNIY of Mountains)
Prof. John Pickles (USA, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Carolina Asia Center and Center for Muslim and Middle Eastern Civilization.
Prof. Dr. Armin Reller (Germany, Fraunhofer Institut Augsburg)
Prof. Margaret Robertson (Australia, IGU commission on Geographical Education)
Adama Samassekou (Mali, President, International Council for Philosophy and Human Sciences – CIPSH)
Prof. Allen Scott (USA, University of California at Los Angeles – UCLA)
Prof. Lukas Sosoe (Ghana, Philosophy),
Walter Spiess (Germany, Former President, International Union of Food Science and Technology – IUFoST)
Dr. Mathis Stock (Switzerland, Director, Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Tourism, Kurt Bösch Institute, Sion)
Eric Tsang (Hongkong, P.R. China, Director of the UNESCO-UNEVOC Centre)
Prof. John Urry (UK; Sociologist, University of Lancaster)
Prof. Benno Werlen (Germany, Initiator & Executive Director)
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