This group researchs sustainable development, global environmental change, and resource appraisal. Several group members are involved in the new inter-disciplinary Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation. The group also has numerous research students and research fellows .
Projects See the projects webpage , or below for a general introduction.
The Centre for Sustainable Development has been created to provide a focus for research on geographical aspects of sustainable development and to encourage human, physical, and resource geographers within the School of Geography to undertake collaborative research to further our understanding of this important concept. Sustainable development unites physical and human geographers to explore interaction between human and environmental systems. Research on global environmental change. Work has also continued on environmental management in Canada, as well as in arctic and alpine ecosystems, and derelict and contaminated land. There are several postgraduate students working within this group whose research interests include policies for sustaining environments and livelihoods in the central Andes, short term demand forecasting, GIS for mapping wildland areas in Scotland, and the impact of global climate change on tropical forest biodiversity in Amazonia.