Economic and Development Geography focuses on economic and business geography, and it prepares students to critically assess the process of globalization operating in the world today, including the ...

This academic program emphasizes intellectual growth, critical analysis and communication, and professional development. Ability to contextualize social and environmental problems in real-world ...

Modern sensing technologies have spawned big data, which is now driving AI to describe, analyze, and simulate geographic systems—forming a new research paradigm that is non-hypothesis-testing and less ...

According to the economist Daron Acemoglu and the political scientist James Robinson, economic development hinges on a single factor: a country's political institutions. More specifically, as they ...

Getting the spatial organization of cities right can mean better jobs, less pollution, and more efficient public services. On September 7, 2018, the 5th Urbanization and Poverty Reduction Research ...

Geography is the study of people and place. It is a wide-ranging discipline. Geographers are interested in how natural processes, people and systems are affected by the specifics of a place—location ...

IT is to Ritter and Humboldt that we owe the real beginnings of human geography as an integral and, indeed, from Hitter's point of view, the crowning part of the subject matter. To appreciate the ...