Handbook

Geography is the multidisciplinary study of both the physical and human worlds in which we live, and a discipline that variously rethinks the relationship between people and the environment. One of the things that makes Geography such an exciting and contemporary subject for study is its incorporation of heterodox ideas, methods, skills and techniques for engaging in the task of ‘Earth writing’. Straddling both the sciences and the arts, Geography is a subject that directly intervenes in many of our most pressing 21st Century problems: from anthropogenic climate catastrophe and mass biological species extinction, to the political production of the ecology, to environmental erosion and modifications to physical systems, to rapid urbanisation and growing levels of global developmental inequality. Geography 1B is a course that helps make sense of these problems and provides tools for rethinking the future of human-environment relations in innovative and exciting ways.