1. Land degradation and sustainable development
Chair: Matija Zorn
(Chair of IGU Commission on Land Degradation and Desertification; Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Slovenia)
2. Disaster risk reduction for sustainable development
Chair: Takashi Oguchi
(Chair of IGU Commission on Hazard and Risk; The University of Tokyo, Japan)
3. Scientific session on geography and sustainability for young and early-career researchers
Chairs:
Gabriela Morosanu
(Chair of IGU Young and Early Career Geographers Working Group on Geography and Sustainability; Institute of Geography, Romanian Academy, Romania)
Xutong Wu
(Co-Chair of IGU Young and Early Career Geographers Working Group on Geography and Sustainability; Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, China)
4. Water resources for sustainable development
Chair: Frank Winde
(Chair of IGU Commission on Water Sustainability; North-West University, South Africa)
5. Agricultural geography and sustainable development
Chair: Yuheng Li
(Secretary General of IGU Commission on Agricultural Geography and Land Engineering; Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Science, China)
6. Geographic modeling and big data for sustainable development
Chair: Min Chen
(Chair of IGU Modeling Geographical Systems Commission; Nanjing Normal University, China)
7. Land use change and sustainable development
Chair: Monica Dumitraşcu
(Chair of IGU Commission on Land Use and Land Cover Change; Institute of Geography, Romanian Academy, Romania)
8. Urban and sustainable development
Chair: Monica Dumitraşcu
(Chair of IGU Commission on Land Use and Land Cover Change; Institute of Geography, Romanian Academy, Romania)
9. Heritage park and sustainable development
Chair: Dongying Wei
(Chair of IGU Commission on Geoheritage; Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, China)
10. Geography education and sustainable development
Chair: Paulo Pereira (Mykolas Romeris University)