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Welcome to the IGU Commission for
"Arid Lands, Humankind, and Environment".

We want to:

• Promote the study of geographical problems in Arid Lands.
• Monitor Human and Environmental changes in Arid Lands.
• Build a database for these works related to the arid lands to facilitate and promote future research.
• Support comprehensive fieldwork in arid regions.
• Develop academic and research networks and cooperate with other project (e.g. DesertNet, UNCCD, ACACIA, IGCP 500, INQUA).
• Promote standardization and compatibility of methods, nomenclature and symbols employed by geographers and other interrelated disciplines.
• Organize meetings to bring together geographers;especially to re-establish better interactions with colleagues in the Arab world those have not much participated in the IGU