Commission and Task Force Chairs: 2004-2008
UNIT	NAME			INSTITUTION	COUNTRY	EMAIL ADDRESS	WEBSITE
Applied Geography	Professor	Antoine S.	Bailly	Université de Geneve	Switzerland	antoine.bailly@geo.unige.ch
Arid Lands, Humankind, and Environment	Professor	Mahmoud M.	Ashour	Ain Shams University	Egypt	mmashour_99@yahoo.com
Biogeography and Biodiversity	Professor	Udo	Schickhoff	Universität Bonn	Germany	schickhoff@giub.uni-bonn.de
Climatology	Professor	Annick	Douguédroit	Université de Provence (Aix-Marseille1)	France	annickd@up.univ-aix.fr
Coastal Systems	Professor	Douglas	Sherman	Texas A&M University	U.S.A	sherman@geog.tamu.edu	http://igu-ccs.ucc.ie/
Cold Region Environments	Professor	Martin	Gude	Friedrich-Schiller-University	Germany	martin.gude@uni-jena.de
Cultural Approach in Geography	Professor	Benno	Werlen	Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena	Germany	benno.werlen@uni-jena.de
Diversity in Mountain Systems	Professor	Joerg	Stadelbauer	Universitaet Freiburg,	Germany	joerg.stadelbauer@geographie.uni-freiburg.de
Dynamics of Economic Spaces	Professor	Richard	LeHeron	University of Auckland	New Zealand	r.leheron@auckland.ac.nz	http://www.sges.auckland.ac.nz
Environment Evolution	Professor	Andrei A.	Velichko	Academy of Sciences	Russia	paleo@glasnet.ru
Gender and Geography	Professor	Tovi	Fenster	Tel Aviv University	Israel	tobiws@post.tau.ac.il	www2.fmg.uva.nl/igugender
Geographical Education	Professor	Lex	Chalmers	The University of Waikato	New Zealand	lex@waikato.ac.nz
Geographical Information Science	Professor	Gregory	Elmes	West Virginia University	USA	gelmes@wvu.edu
Geography and Public Policy	Professor	Doris	Wastl-Walter	University of Berne	Switzerland	dwastl@giub.unibe.ch	http://www.igu-gapp.org/
Geography of the Information Society	Professor	Aharon	Kellerman	University of Haifa	Israel	akeller@univ.haifa.ac.il	http://www.ssc.msu.edu/~igu/
Geography of Tourism, Leisure, and Global Change	Professor	Jarkko	Saarinen	University of Oulu	Finland	jarkko.saarinen@oulu.fi
Geomorphic Challenges for the 21st Century	Professor	Anthony	Parsons	University of Leicester	United Kingdom	ajp16@leicester.ac.uk	http://www.geog.le.ac.uk/research/GC21
Global Change and Human Mobility	Professor	Armando	Montanari	DEST - Università G d'Annunzio	Italy	MD3046@mclink.it	http://www.bun.kyoto-u.ac.jp/geo/globility
Hazards and Risks	Professor	David	Alexander	Coventry University	United Kingdom	d.alexander@coventry.ac.uk
Health and Environment	Professor	Mark	Rosenberg	Queen's University	Canada	rosenber@post.queensu.ca	http://geog.queensu.ca/igu-com-he/
History of Geographical Thought	Professor	Hector	Mendoza-Vargas	Autonomous University of Mexico	Mexico	hvargas@servidor.unam.mx
Karst	Professor	David	Gillieson	James Cook University	Australia	david.gillieson@jcu.edu.au
Land Degradation and Desertification	Professor	Gudrun	Gisladottir	University of Iceland	Iceland	ggisla@hi.is
Land Use and Land Cover Change	Professor	Alexander	Mather	University of Aberdeen	United Kingdom	a.mather@abdn.ac.uk
Landscape Analysis	Professor	Nikoloz	Beruchashvili	Tbilisi State University	Georgia	nlberou@hotmail.com
Local Development	Professsor	Michael	Sofer	University of Tel Aviv	Israel	msofer@post.tau.ac.il
Marginalization, Globalization, and Regional and Local Responses	Professor	Etienne	Nel	Rhodes University	South Africa	e.nel@ru.ac.za
Marine Geography	Professor	Brian	Slack	Concordia University	Canada	slack@vax2.concordia.ca
Modelling Geographical Systems	Professor	Richard W.	Thomas	University of Manchester	United Kingdom	mfvstrwt@fs1.go.man.ac.uk	http://grm.cuhk.edu.hk/igu-cmgs/
Monitoring Cities of Tomorrow	Professor	Gerhard	Braun	Freie Universität Berlin	Germany	gbraun@geog.fu-berlin.de	http://www.cities-of-tomorrow.com
Political Geography	Professor	André-Louis	Sanguin	Universite de Paris IV--Sorbonne	France	alsanguin@wanadoo.fr	http://www.cla.sc.edu/geog/wpm
Population and Vulnerability	Professor	Allan M.	Findley	University of Dundee	United Kingdom	a.m.findlay@dundee.ac.uk
Sustainability of Rural Systems	Professor	Christopher	Bryant	Université de Montréal	Canada	bryan94@attglobal.net	http://www.geog.umontreal.ca/donnees/igu-rural-systems/
Water Sustainability	Professor	J.A.A.	Jones	University of Wales	United Kingdom	jaj@aber.ac.uk	http://water-sustainability.ph.unito.it
Geoparks	Professor	Narciso	Barrera-Bassols	Autonomous University of Mexico	Mexico	barrera@igiris.igeograf.unam.mx
Megacities	Professor	Frauke	Kraas	Universität zu Köln	Germany	f.kraas@uni-koeln.de	http://www.megacities.uni-koeln.de/
Olympiad	Professor	Joop	van der Schee	Free University Amsterdam	Netherlands	j.vanderschee@ond.vu.nl
Olympiad	Professor	Henk	Ankoné	SLO / National Institute for Curriculum Development	Netherlands	h.ankone@slo.nl
Vulnerability	Professor	Colin	Polsky	Clark University	USA	cpolsky@clarku.edu	http://www.clarku.edu/departments/geography/research/vulnerability/