The 4th International Symposium on the Tibetan Plateau in Lhasa, China

Organized and hosted by Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and the Government of the Tibet Autonomous Region of China, the 4th International Symposium on the Tibetan Plateau was held in Lhasa, China on August 4-7, 2004.The Symposium was undertaken by the Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, CAS, the Bureau of Science and Technology under the Tibet Autonomous Region, China Society on the Tibetan Plateau, and the Institute of Plateau Meteorology. Academician Sun Honglie to…     

The 30th International Geographical Congress 16-20 August, Glasgow, UK

The 30th International Geographical Congress (IGC) was held on August 16-20 in Glasgow, the United Kingdom. Approximately 2000 geographers from more than 80 countries and regions participated in the IGC. The Geographical Society of China (GSC) attended the conference with a 60-odd-number delegation from Chinese mainland. Nearly 20 geographers from Taiwan and Kong Kong, as well as overseas Chinese attendees took part in the IGC.Professor Ken Gregory, chair of the IGC 2004 from the …     

The 10th International Symposium on Permafrost Engineering——Challenge and adaption of permafrost engineering to a changing climate

Permafrost engineering has been developing rapidly in recent years. Many projects have been undertaken with the latest technologies and show their importance in supporting regional social and economical development. For example, the Qinghai-Tibet Railway has been a milestone project in permafrost engineering. However, when designing and building infrastructures in cold regions,     

The 1st International Symposium on Transportation Soil Engineering in Cold Regions——A Joint Conference with the 10th SHAHUNIANTS Lecture

正(TRANSOILCOLD2013)Organized by: Qinghai Research Institute of Transportation (QRIT), Department of Transportation (DOT) of the Qinghai Province, China Beijing Jiaotong University, China University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA     

10th International Riversymposium ＆ International Conference on Environmental Flows 3-6 September, 2007

Please mark your calendars and plan to attend this event! This event will bring together world experts - practitioners, lawyers and policy experts, scientists, sociologists, economists, and others representing project-based efforts, national perspectives, and global insight - to provide a holistic view of river management and environmental flows. It will showcase practices from throughout the world, provide opportunities for networking, and advance common knowledge related to the themes and sub-themes of this conference.     

Diverse Perspectives on Society and Environment——Plenary Lecture at the 32th International Geographical Congress

This paper is based on the plenary lecture presented by Professor Anne Buttimer at the 32th International Geographical Congress (Cologne, August 27, 2012), with several revisions and amendments. Professor Anne Buttimer is a world famous geographer, gaining exceptionally high regard through her work in social and humanist geography. She was President of the International Geographical Union (IGU) during 2000-2004, and remains a Fellow of Royal Irish Academy, Royal Geographical Society (UK) and was recently elected as Vice President of Academia Europaea. In this paper, the author makes a systematic review of the traditions of geographic enquiry, especially those conterpoint voices on the relationship between society and environment down the centuries, tracing their philosophical sources both in the East and West. Referencing the four world views and their root metaphors, she then points out the problems in present-day geographic study, and calls for innovations in the future studies on this theme. The paper has a very high perspective and thus will be extremely influential.     

The 1st International conference On Computer Graphics and Spatial Information Systems Beijing, China. August 6～9, 2002 (CircularAnnouncement)

Topics: (1)Graphic and Image Processing (2) Spatial Information System: Geo-spatial information system, GIS methodology and application, Web GIS, Component GIS, Spatial topology of spatial realities, Semantic-based database management, Multi-source spatial data processing and data fusion, Data model for Geo-visualization, Spatial data error in GIS, Data communication in Web-based GIS, Application of Remote sensing to Earth Science, Agriculture and other areas, Remote sensing im…     

MEETING REPORT 4th International Conference on Chemometrics in Analytical Chemistry (CAC),Amsterdam,The Netherlands.18-20 May 1988

The Conference,organized by Dutch and Bel-gian chemometricians,was held in the FlemishCultural Centre in Amsterdam.This smalltheatre,with its dark red interior and stage-properties placed arbitrarily over the smallpresentation platform,appeared to be an inspir-ing place for the participants.A large number of     

First Announcement and Call for Papers ——First Announcement and Call for Papers 7th International Workshop of Geographical Information System （IWGIS＇07） August, 2007, Beijing, China

IWGIS has been held in Beijing every three years since 1987 with the purpose of demonstrating and discussing the integrated techniques and applications of GIS. The 7th IWGIS will be held in early August, 2007. The theme of this workshop is GIS and regional sustainable development, including various topics related to new philosophies, new techniques, and new solutions of GIS.     

δ~(18)O, δD and d-excess signatures of ground ice in permafrost in the Beiluhe Basin on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau,China

In this paper, stable isotope(δ~(18)O, δD) investigations were completed in ground ice from a deep borehole in the Beiluhe Basin on northern Qinghai-Tibet Plateau to unravel the isotopic variations of ground ice and their possible source water. The δ~(18)O and δD of ground ice show distinctive characteristics compared with precipitation and surface water. The near-surface ground ice is highly enriched in heavier isotopes(δ~(18)O and δD), which were gradually depleted from top to bottom along the profile. It is suggestive of different origin and ice formation process. According to isotopic variations, the ice profile was divided into three sections: the near-surface ground ice at 2.5 m is frozen by the active-layer water which suffered evaporation. It is possible that ground ice between 3 and 4.2 m is recharged by the infiltration of snowmelt. From 5 to 6 m, the ground ice show complex origin and formation processes. Isotopic variations from 6 to 11.1 m and 20.55 m indicate different replenishment water. The calculated slope of freezing line(S=6.4) is larger than the experimental value(5.76), and is suggestive of complex origin and formation process of ground ice.     

International Workshop on “Expanding Trans-boundary Cooperation for Water and Environment Security in Asia’s International Rivers” December 10-14,2005,Dali,China

The International Workshop on "Expanding Transboundary Cooperation for Water and Environment Security in Asia's International Rivers" was held on December 10-14, 2005, Dali, Yunnan, China. It was organized by Tsinghua University, the World Bank Institute …     

International Workshop on ＂Expanding Trans-boundary Cooperation for Water and Environment Security in Asia＇s International Rivers＂ December 10-14, 2005, Dali, China

The International Workshop on ＂Expanding Transboundary Cooperation for Water and Environment Security in Asia＇s International Rivers＂ was held on December 10-14, 2005, Dali, Yunnan, China. It was organized by Tsinghua University, the World Bank Institute （WBI）, the United Nations University （UNU） and Asian International Rivers Center （AIRC）. A total of over 60 scholars from the USA, Canada, Australia, Finland, Japan, Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, India, Sri Lanka, Iran and China participated in this workshop. The topics include seeking reasonable utilization and sustainable conflict resolutions related to transboundary water resources, and transboundary ecosecurity maintenance; expanding cooperation between Asia and the rest of the world on international river issues, identifying potential opportunities; and possibility of a common research agenda for addressing environment changes in Mekong River Basin.     

Comment on “Comparison of the Ability of ARIMA,WNN and SVM Models for Drought Forecasting in the Sanjiang Plain,China” by Yuhu Zhang,Huirong Yang,Hengjian Cui,and Qiuhua Chen,in Natural Resources Research DOI: 10.1007/s11053-019-09512-6

Natural Resources Research - We thank Zhang et al. (Nat Resour Res, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11053-019-09512-6) for investigating the accuracy of artificial intelligence techniques in the...     

Megalopolitan glocalization: the evolving relational economic geography of intercity knowledge linkages within and beyond China’s Yangtze River Delta region, 2004-2014

We develop the relational economic geographical potential of the incubator and hinge functions of megalopolis incorporating ideas from the literature on regional innovation systems and New Argonaut connections respectively. Empirically, we investigate how China’s Yangtze River Delta (YRD) has incubated but also articulated knowledge interactions at different geographical scales. Drawing upon co-patent data from the World Intellectual Property Organization database, we show that the YRD’s knowledge hinge role has strengthened over time, notably as a result of the role played by economic entities in Shanghai – the YRD’s gateway city. To unpack the YRD’s knowledge hinge role, we use information attached to co-patents to distinguish different channels – multinational enterprises, Chinese domestic enterprises, universities and research institutes, and “New Argonaut” linkages – by which YRD cities have accessed exogenous knowledge at different geographical scales. In conclusion we highlight the value of megalopolis as a meso-scale unit of analysis for relational economic geography.