The outputs from IGCP 470 have also contributed to current international geological mapping projects.
It is the aim of this IGCP to unify both disciplines to enhance our process-driven knowledge.
Over the past 38 years, tens of thousands of scientists have actively taken part in IGCP projects.
Understanding natural disasters is another critical area for sustainable development in which the IGCP can make a difference.
The longstanding International Geoscience Programme (IGCP) supports interdisciplinary research to foster the growth of geoscientific knowledge and expertise worldwide.
The IGCP Scientific Board consists of approximately 50 specialists responsible for evaluating project proposals and assessing ongoing project works.
As time went by and supporting evidence for Gondwana became overwhelming, IGCP research teams turned to questions of special societal relevance.
IGCP-597: Amalgamation and Breakup Pangaea: the Type Example of the Supercontinent Cycle.
We hope that this may be the beginning of a larger initiative on this important topic which maximises IGCP and MAB Programme cooperation.
During the period of IGCP 567, the archaeoseismological principles and practices have further matured in pursuing an intimate relationship with other disciplines of earthquake science.
UNESCO: Tales set in Stone: learning from ancient earthquakes
This work was part of an International Geoscience Programme (IGCP) project on the Role of Holocene Environmental Catastrophes in Human History ( IGCP project 490).
One of the project members, Iain Stewart, will make a presentation during the IGCP 40th Anniversary Celebration on 22 February 2012 at UNESCO headquarters in Paris.
UNESCO: Tales set in Stone: learning from ancient earthquakes
Through these palaeostudies, the IGCP is helping us to understand how human societies and ecosystems coped with a changing environment in the past and why some civilizations failed.
Based upon the success of the first Deep-Water Circulation congress in Baiona (16-18 June 2010), an initiative has been developed to start an International Geoscience Programme (IGCP) on Contourites.
Together with our colleagues of the INQUA (International Union for Quaternary Research) focus area group on palaeoseismology and active tectonics, IGCP 567 started a new tradition of joint field workshops.
UNESCO: Tales set in Stone: learning from ancient earthquakes
The IGCP was founded in 1972 to confirm the existence of Gondwana, one of two megacontinents with Laurasia which formed about 145 Ma, by correlating the geology of modern continents.
The Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA) is presently funding a four-year programme to boost the development of the IGCP in Africa through training workshops and direct support for individual projects.
The African geoscience community through the Geological Society of Africa is engaged in promoting awareness of the IGCP and its benefits and directing these to African Earth science leaders and institutions.
One IGCP project in 2000 was even at the origin of a new field: medical geology, the science dealing with the impact of our natural environment on human and animal health.
One such tale is that of IGCP project 567 on ancient earthquakes, what they can tell us about our past, and how we can learn from them to prepare for the future.
UNESCO: Tales set in Stone: learning from ancient earthquakes
The international geosciences programme (IGCP) project 567 on earthquake archaeology is intended to demonstrate that archaeological evidence can make a valuable contribution to long-term seismic-hazard assessments in earthquake-prone regions where there is a long and lasting cultural heritage.
UNESCO: Tales set in Stone: learning from ancient earthquakes
Anyhow, execution of successive IGCP projects (321, 411, 516) targeted at geological evolution of (mainly East and South) Asia and other related researches have contributed much in working out more constraints on the evolution of the Tethys and to provide more data for interpretation.
At the business meeting of IGCP-516 (Geological Anatomy of East and South Asia) held on 26 September 2009 during the 5th International Symposium of IGCP-516 in Kunming, China, the participants decided unanimously that a new IGCP project be applied, which might be a successor of IGCP-516.
In this respect, the legacy of IGCP 567 will be a strong community of practitioners who are well disposed towards archaeoseismology, advocating a holistic approach that will eventually contribute to the establishment of an essential earthquake culture in the Alpine-Himalayan region, occasionally confronted with the inevitable earthquake catastrophe.
UNESCO: Tales set in Stone: learning from ancient earthquakes
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