The Inaugural International Conference on Sustainability, Human Geography and Environmental Studies (ICSHGES 2009) aims to bring together researchers, scientists, engineers, and scholarly students to exchange and share their experiences, novel ideas, and research results regarding all aspects of sustainability, human geography and environmental studies and discuss the practical challenges encountered and solutions adopted during such experimentation.The conference is divided into three themes:Theme 1: Sustainability related research and statisticsTheme 2: Human geography and cultural studiesTheme 3: Environmental studies and ecologically based research (source: www.polosustainability.com)