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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Explore Our Programmes
Politics, Economies And Space
Situating African FinTech in Global Financial Networks
Migozzi, J., and Wojcik, D. (2026)
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers
Social Cultural Geographies
Future and Imaginary Geographies of 'Africa's Singapore': Planning the Emergent National–Urban Nexus of Rwanda–Kigali
Xiao, A.H., Sebarenzi, G.A., Brady, D. (2026)
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research
Tropical Environmental Change
Flood Risk Analysis Using Spatial Synthetic Population in the Upper Bengawan Solo Watershed, Indonesia
Musiyam, M., Jumadi, J., Fikriyah, V. N., Masruroh, H., Septiyani, E. D., Amin, C., Hadibasyir, H. Z., Sattar, F., Nawaz, M. (2025)
Forum Geografi
Tropical Environmental Change
Bridging Urban Climate Science and Decision-Making: The Role of Earth Observation
Chrysoulakis, N., Seto, K.C., Birkmann, J., Christen, A., Georgescu, M., Grimmond, S., Roth, M., Zhao, L. (2026)
Environmental Research Letters
News & Happenings
NUS Geography Now
8world News featured an interview with Dr Muhammad Nawaz on the recent earthquakes in Japan, published on 29 July 2026.
“Geography taught me to see bigger systems in everyday processes": NUS Geography alumna Yuki Ong (Class of 2023) brings this systems-thinking approach to GreenLoop Farms, where she is working to reshape the future of food through sustainable farming, innovation, and a commitment to creating positive environmental impact.
Congratulations to Professor Brenda S.A. Yeoh FBA, who was awarded Honorary doctor, in Latin doctor honoris causa, by Lund University, Sweden, in a ceremony on 29 May 2026.
This is a distinction awarded by the university's Faculty of Social Sciences to "individuals who have made a significant contribution to the University or society, and whom the faculty wishes to honour and welcome into its research community".
Upcoming Events
Seminar
“Contracting the Climate Economy: Between Coordination and De-risking in Australia’s Energy Transition” by Associate Professor Gareth Bryant, University of Sydney on Wednesday, 12 August 2026, 3:30PM, Geography Earth Lab, AS2 02-03.
NUS University Awards 2024: Eight Exemplary Individuals Honoured For Their Relentless Drive Toward Excellence
The prestigious Outstanding Service Award was conferred on Chairman of the Middle East Institute at NUS and former Singapore diplomat, Mr Bilahari Kausikan (FASS alumnus, NUS Political Science ’76), and Professor Brenda Yeoh Saw Ai of NUS Geography was honoured with a University Research Recognition Award for groundbreaking research that has placed NUS at the forefront of her field.
Unearthing the Mysteries of the Ocean’s Depths: NUS Students’ Aboard the OceanXplorer
Ng Kao Jing, a second-year student from the NUS Environmental Studies Programme, and Rachel Ong, a third-year student majoring in Psychology, were among the 14 young explorers picked from thousands of applications around the world to participate in the OceanX Education Young Explorers Program (YEP), which was held from 10 to 15 July 2024.
Integrating local and neighbouring area influences into vulnerability modelling of infectious diseases in Singapore
Singapore’s most recent Circuit Breaker ended on 9 Aug 2021. The Circuit Breaker, a government-issued stay-at-home order, was one of many measures taken to contain the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. Since the pandemic, understanding how infectious diseases propagate has become an increasingly important field of study, especially as new diseases continue to crop up […]