RESEARCH GROUPS
The UP Department of Geography has five dynamic research groups that showcase the wide scope and diversity of our faculty’s expertise and research interests. Each group actively initiates research activities, along with engaging webinar and lecture series to disseminate knowledge and foster intellectual exchange. If you want to know more about their works or connect with a specific research group coordinator, please contact the UP Department of Geography via email (geography.upd@up.edu.ph / geog@kssp.upd.edu.ph).
Geographies of Disasters and Hazards (GEDI)
1.1. Climate Change and Disasters
1.2. Disaster Risk Reduction and Management
1.3. Risk, Vulnerability and Resilience
1.4. Environmental and Climate-Related Hazards
Environment and Development Geographies (EDGE)
2.1. Environmental Geography
2.2. Political Ecology
2.3. Resource Management and Conservation
2.4. Urban Geography
2.5. Rural Geography
2.6. Geographies of Food and Agriculture
2.7. Land Use and Land Use Planning
2.8. Biogeography
2.9. Development Geographies
Geographic Information Systems and Techniques (GIST)
3.1. Geographic Information Science
3.2. Remote Sensing
3.3. Spatial Statistics
3.4. Cartography
3.5. Participatory and citizen science methods
Human Geography (HUG)
4.1. Cultural Geography
4.2. Political Geography
4.3. Transportation Geography
4.4. Population Geography
4.5. Economic Geography
4.6. Historical Geography
4.7. Feminist and Queer Geographies
4.8. Health and Medical Geographies
4.9. Geographic Education
4.10. Countermapping
4.11. Children’s Geographies
4.12. Mobilities
Media, Literary Geographies and Geohumanities (MELANGE)
5.1 Geographies of the moving image
5.2 Spatial humanities
5.3 Digital geographies
5.4 Soundscapes and sonic geographies
5.5 Creative and experimental cartographies
5.6 Geonarratives and geostorytelling
5.7 Photography and representation
5.8 Performance and creative practices