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The Eighth NAGI International Conference

Focal Theme

"Geography for a Sustainable Future: Land, Water, Climate and Society Interface"

Geography conventionally focuses on man-environment relationship and keeps on searching the pathways to build a livable world for the entire humanity. In this journey, new issues and challenges have been emerging with the advent of knowledge. Geographical research has also been responding to these issues and challenges from diverse perspectives to attain the desired development. Today, given this globalized world, the central enquiry in practicing geography revolves around achieving development that is environmentally and socio-economically sustainable. The Sustainable Development Goals of UNDP reaffirms this geographical query and Geographers today are engaged in finding ways to take humanity towards a sustainable future. Changing global climate, intensification of natural and man-made disasters, depletion of forest and groundwater resource, degradation of land and soil, decline in biodiversity, increasing air and water pollution etc. are some of the noticeable challenges that hamper the progress towards achieving the sustainable development. On the other hand, increasing inequality and poverty, widening gender disparity, deteriorating global food security, poor health and nutrition, global burden of diseases, rise in intranational and international conflict are the burning issues faced by the humanity. In twenty first century, therefore, even after unprecedented achievements in the field of technology, sustainability of man, environment and society is under threat. Man is in the center of development and quality population is an outcome of a livable and viable society. Society is not something which emerge all of a certain but is an amalgamation of the process where man found to have an interaction with the environment and land till it remains sustainable. Looking at the pace of change and the incumbent issues that emerge over time are indicating towards a major shift in the existing societal paradigm. Cities, as predicted by UN to be the home for around 70 percent world population by 2050 are becoming overburdened with the population pressure leading to an unprecedented rise in the pollution and waste products of human consumption. Haphazard urbanization, expansion of slums, decline in open urban spaces, poor hygiene and sanitation, deteriorating human health and wellbeing, futile urban planning and ineffective urban governance are the challenges faced by the twenty first century cities. All these issues require attention from Geography and also from related disciplines. With this context at the backdrop, the International Conference has been designed to contribute on the role of geography for a sustainable future. The conference will focus on the land, water, climate and society interface for achieving a sustainable future. In this conference, beside geography, discussion and debates from multi-disciplinary perspective are invited with focus on the following sub-themes.

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