Description

Interactions between society and environment are fundamental to geographical investigation and at the core of many of the world’s most social, economic, and political issues at the start of the 21st Century. Faculty and graduate research and teaching combine quantitative and qualitative approaches, whilst focusing in particular on conservation and development, cultural and political ecologies, environmental history, environmental justice, environmental policy, and land-use change.

The geographical scope of our current research activities includes Central America and the Caribbean Basin, South America (Amazon Basin and Andes), the US-Mexico Borderlands, South Asia, and China.

Affiliated Faculty

• Christian Brannstrom
• Will Heyman
• Wendy Jepson
• Andrew Millington
• Kathleen O'Reilly
• Daniel Sui

Faculty Research Projects

• Land-use and Land-cover Change in Bolivia (Millington)
• Environment Inequity in the Lower Rio Grande Valley (Jepson)
• Agricultural Development and Land Change in the Brazilian Cerrado (Jepson; Brannstrom)
• Environmental impacts of the digital economy (Sui)
• The emerging megalopolis and its environmental consequences in the greater Pearl River Delta Area (Sui)
• Community participation in water resource management in north India (O'Reilly)

Related Websites

• Marine and Coastal Geography

Field and Research Photos