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.
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 […]
Arts for All enriches arts community within and beyond NUS
Two years after it was piloted in late 2023, the Arts for All (AFA) initiative is making waves in NUS, enabling students to embed the arts into their student life and learning journey – and beyond, through outreach efforts to younger musicians across Singapore.