Environmental Concerns . Another person in my graduate office has spent her career working in a state department of natural resources. Obviously resources have a geographic distribution. The solutions to environmental problems involve geographic answers. Other geographers work with remotely sensed images to analyze the sources of pollution and work to achieve a better environment.
Tourism is a growing specialty within geography.
Geography has that connection to exploration, and later travel. To produce literature for the promotion of tourism, or to study the ways in which people benefit from travel increases the pleasure of travel and the amount of income generated by travel. Other work within organizations related to travel, such as airlines, to analyze routes and traffic. They create better opportunities for people to travel for pleasure and business. As these examples suggest, geographers do a number of different things.