Where Will You Make Your Impact?

Understand The World. Shape Your Future.

From climate resilience to global justice, NUS Geographers learn from today’s problems to design tomorrow’s solutions. Through an interdisciplinary curriculum that integrates physical and human geography, students examine real-world challenges across local, regional, and global contexts. Grounded in research and practice, NUS Geography equips learners with the critical and applied skills needed to shape more equitable and resilient futures.

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Climate Change

How do we respond to a warming world?
Analyse climate impacts and adaptation strategies to drive solutions in policy, planning, and environmental consultancy.

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Sustainable Development

How can we live well on a damaged planet?
Evaluate and design pathways for balancing growth, equity, and environment to shape sustainable futures across public and private sectors.

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Globalisation & Inequality

Is there hope for the future?
Examine how global flows of power, trade, and culture create uneven geographies, opening pathways into public policy, urban and corporate consultancy.

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Our Everyday Worlds

How do we create meaningful worlds for ourselves and others?
Explore how identities, practices, and cultures shape everyday spaces and places, building skills for careers in planning, community engagement, marketing and project management.

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Geospatial Intelligence

Want to see the world in 4D?
Apply spatial analysis, mapping, and data visualisation to solve real-world challenges in industry, government, and academia.

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The Geographical Sciences

Want to shape the world, literally?
Study Earth’s dynamic systems to build skills in analysis and field research, leading to careers in environmental consultancy, resource management and conservation, and sustainability planning.

Green, W. N., & Kenney-Lazar, M. (2025)

Sustainability capitalism: Investing in climate transitions

Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space

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Brady, D. (2025)

Toward a geographical stack: Reworking state-less and scale-less conceptions of the digital in China and California

Progress in Human Geography

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Li, M., et al. (2026)

Why methane surged in the atmosphere during the early 2020s

Science/AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science)

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Feng, C.-C., et al. (2025)

Nonlinear dynamics of natural and cultural ecosystem service supply and demand

NPJ Heritage Science

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News & Happenings

NUS Geography Now

Asia’s First Bachelor’s Programme in Geospatial Intelligence: The Department of Geography, together with the School of Computing, will launch Asia’s first Bachelor’s-level programme in Geospatial Intelligence. The programme combines spatial thinking, data science, and advanced geospatial technologies to equip students to address complex real-world challenges, from urban planning to climate resilience.

The Straits Times features Dr Nawaz’s expert insights on ground tremors felt in Singapore following the Sabah earthquake on February 24, 2026.


Why is Rwanda often described as the “Singapore of Africa”? In a commentary published in Lianhe Zaobao, Assistant Professor Allen Xiao examines the landlocked East African nation’s development vision, governance strategies, and urban transformation, while outlining the key differences between Rwanda and Singapore. The piece offers insights into how geographical imagination shapes urban planning and reflects on what Rwanda’s trajectory and vision reveal about pathways to national development in a changing global landscape.

Upcoming Events

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Field Studies 2026 - Official Registrations Open!

GE3230A is a 5-week, 8-unit overseas field course conducted in Southeast Asia during Special Term 1 (12 May - 18 June 2026). Students interested in enrolling can officially register for the course via the link below.

Register Here
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Seminar

Radical Care-work, Critical Pedagogy and the Livable City: Revisiting the History of Urban Squatting in West Berlin, 1968-1977, by Professor Alex Vasudevan, School of Geography and the Environment University of Oxford on Monday 16 March 2026, 9.30am, Geography Seminar Room, AS2 #03-02.

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Mark Graham
Seminar

Accountability in the AI Production Network: Introducing the Fairwork Action Research Project by Professor Mark Graham, University of Oxford, Thursday 26 March 2026, 3pm, Geography Earth Lab, AS2 #02-04.

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December 26, 2024

Follow the money: Financial geography course uncovers how finance shapes our world

In GE3257 Financial Geographies, the first course on this topic to be offered at NUS, students are introduced to financial geography “as a lens through which they can better understand the world, the evolution of human civilisation and its relationships with nature,” says course instructor Professor Dariusz Wójcik.

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December 16, 2024

Adela Isvoranu and W. Nathan Green win FASS 2024/25 Promising Researcher Awards!

Congratulations to Assistant Professors Adela Isvoranu and W. Nathan Green, who have won the FASS Award for Promising Researcher for the 2024/25 Academic Year! Asst Prof Isvoranu is a recent appointee at the NUS Department of Psychology and primarily studies the developmental pathways from mental health to mental illness and the fuzzy boundaries between psychopathological […]

Dr Patrick Hoffman and Prof Dariusz Wojcik answering attendees' questions
October 29, 2024

Atlas of Finance Launched in Singapore

On Thursday, 24 October, NUS Geography Professor Dariusz “Darek” Wojcik‘s Atlas of Finance was officially launched at The Pod, NLB. Published by Yale University Press, the 240 page tome features 98 colour illustrations and explores the development of finance that combines data from every part of the world and covers 5000 years of history. During […]

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