Major contemporary issues in global environmental change and sustainability are increasingly relevant for environmental management and development practice in both the developed and developing worlds. Global socio-ecological problems call for multidisciplinary solutions that transcend the usual boundaries of science and decision-making.
Sub-areas
- Land Use and Land Cover Change
- Adaptation and Mitigation
- Climate Change
- Anthropocene
- Environmental Hazards
- Resilience
- Natural Resources
- Biodiversity
- Sea Level Rise
- Social-Ecological Systems
- Human Impacts
Courses
- GEO3334: Managing Climate Change
- GEO2351: Geographical Sciences and Sustainability
- GEO6375: Land Change Science Seminar
- GEO6931: Seminar in Cultural and Political Ecology
- GEO3352: Human Footprint on the Landscape
- GEO4938/6938: Parks and People
- GEO4300: Environmental Biogeography
- GEO3372: Conservation Resources
- GEO3341/6348: Extreme Floods
- GEO3930: Extreme Droughts
- GIS2002: The Digital Earth
- GEO3930: Sea Level Variability and Change
- GEO4938/6938: Communicating Science
- GEO4938/6938: Weather, Climate and Society
- GEO4285: Water, Risk, and Extreme Events
- GEO4938/6938: Catastrophes, Tipping Points and Resilience