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
Social Cultural Geographies
New AI cities: power, new cities and urban artificial intelligence in Neom and The Line
Cugurullo, F. (2026)
Urban Geography
Social Cultural Geographies
Beyond directional care: Theorising mutuality in the geographies of care through the lens of friendship
Chan, G. and Ho, E.L.E. (2026)
Dialogues in Human Geography
Social Cultural Geographies
Licensed Commoning and the Authoritarian Commons: Governing Participation in China’s Community Gardens
Xie, L., Shao, M., Deng, G. (2026)
Environmental Policy and Governance
Geographic Information Systems
GIEHP: A global, AI-powered platform for near real-time ecological intelligence
Xu, D., and Wang, Y.C. (2025)
Environmental Science and Ecotechnology/Elsevier
News & Happenings
NUS Geography Now
“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".
Congratulations to Assistant Professor Nathan Green, who was recognised at this year’s American Association of Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting with Outstanding Paper Awards from both the Cultural and Political Ecology and Development Geography Specialty Groups.
His award-winning paper, “Maximizing Finance for Sustainable Development: Microfinance, Debt-Driven Deforestation, and the Self-Regulation of Environmental Harm,” published in the Annals of the American Association of Geographers, was honoured for its impactful contribution to critical debates on sustainability, finance, and environmental harm.
Upcoming Events
Seminar
“Reckoning the urban: Cold War legacies and contemporary urban politics in Southeast Asia” by Professor Gavin Shatkin, LKCF Visiting Fellow on Tuesday, 14 April 2026, 2-3:30PM, Research Division Seminar Room, AS7 06-42.
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.
Data-Driven Visual Analytics Platform: Exploring RCEP’s Impacts on ASEAN’s Trade in the Wake of the COVID-19 Pandemic
The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), the world’s largest free trade agreement, was conceived amid global uncertainty shaped by the COVID-19 pandemic, rising protectionism, geopolitical tensions, and an intensifying U.S.-China rivalry. In such a rapidly shifting landscape, existing theories on free trade agreements (FTAs) may fall short in explaining or predicting RCEP’s evolving impact. ‘Data-Driven […]
Mindset shifts for a kinder, happier Singapore
Discussions at the Singapore Perspectives conference organised by the Institute of Policy Studies at NUS in January 2026 centred on the theme of Fraternity and explored ways to help Singaporeans connect with one another, even as technological disruption, cultural differences and competition pose a constant threat to unity.
Application of a Semi-Empirical Approach to Map Maximum Urban Heat Island Intensity in Singapore
According to the Centre for Climate Research Singapore, Singapore could face increasingly extreme weather conditions, with more frequent scorching days, prolonged dry spells, and temperatures potentially rising by up to 5 degrees Celsius by 2100. These changes, driven by global climate change, will heighten the risks of heat stress, a condition where excessive heat overwhelms […]