Department of Geography Research and Extension Agenda

Research Agenda

1. Geographies of Disasters and Hazards
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

2. Environment and Development Geographies
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

3. Geographic Information Systems and Techniques
3.1. Geographic Information Science
3.2. Remote Sensing
3.3. Spatial Statistics
3.4. Cartography
3.5. Participatory and citizen science methods

4. Human Geography
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

5. Media Geographies
5.1. Cinematic Geographies
5.2. Geohumanities
5.3. Virtual Geographies
5.4. Sonic and Televisual Geographies

Extension Agenda

1. Course-Based/Service Learning
2. Engagements with Local Government Units and Communities
3. Knowledge Dissemination