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.
Environmental 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
Beyond directional care: Theorising mutuality in the geographies of care through the lens of friendship
Chan, G. E. Y., & Ho, E. L.-E. (2026)
Dialogues in Human Geography
Social Cultural Geographies
Reconstructing building genealogy with visual intelligence
Xue, X., Yang, Y., Tian, Z., Chang, T.C., & Heng, C.K. (2026)
Nature Communications
Tropical Environmental Change
Nested Carbon Governance in Southeast Asia: Towards Just Nature-Based Solutions?
Varkkey, H., Miller, M.A., Taylor, D. (2026)
Environmental Policy and Governance
Tropical Environmental Change
Higher odds of produced-water-like chemistry in groundwater vulnerable to shale gas spills
Soriano, M.A., Warren, J.L., Wang, Y.C. et al. (2026)
Nature Sustainability
News & Happenings
NUS Geography Now
Dr Nawaz was interviewed and quoted in an article examining the effectiveness of monsoon transitions in mitigating regional haze by 8world Chinese News, Mediacorp Singapore, on 13 October 2026.
Congratulations to Assistant Professor Luo Xiangzhong (Remi) and the SIGMA team, whose collaborative research project was selected for the Google DeepMind AI for the Planet Accelerator.
CNA938 interviewed Dr Nawaz on 28 August 2026 about the role of climate change and human activity in the Nepal–Tibet disaster.
Upcoming Events
Seminar
“High-resolution property: Digital enclosures on the urban frontier” by Associate Professor Tom Cowan, University of Nottingham on Thursday, 1 October 2026, 12PM, Geography Earth Lab, AS2 02-03.
Seminar
“Spectrum Geographies: Signal, Territory, and Electromagnetic Space” by Associate Professor Mia Bennett, University of Washington, 16 September 2026, at 3.30pm, Geography Earth Lab, AS2 02-03.
Singapore ESRI Young Scholar Award
Mr Noah Zhang, MSc in Applied GIS candidate from the Department of Geography, has won the Singapore ESRI Young Scholar Award for his project titled: A guidance for using GIS to teach Geography: What does spatial thinking look like in a classroom? This nation-wide competition, run annually by ESRI , celebrates excellence in geospatial study, […]
Climate Change Increases Fluvial Sediment in the High Mountains of Asia
Professor Lu Xixi and Dr Dongfeng Li from the Department of Geography at the National University of Singapore (NUS) Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences led an international team of researchers to conduct a new analysis of observations of headwater rivers in the area. The study revealed that fluvial sediment loads have been increasing substantially, even much faster than river water discharge. This is due to the recent warmer and wetter climate, and has important implications for water quality, hydropower development and maintenance, and for the riverine carbon cycle.
NUS Geographer Brenda Yeoh Awarded ‘Nobel Prize for Geography’ (Vautrin-Lud Prize)
The award sees Prof Yeoh joining the who’s who in the geography pantheon which includes David Harvey, Marxist economic geographer and Distinguished Professor of anthropology and geography from The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and Prof Doreen Massey – a British social scientist and geographer renowned for her work on space, place and power.
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