Research interests
The Department of Geography is among the leaders in Canada in terms of teaching and research. It offers a unique perspective on relationships between human beings and their surroundings. It also integrates new technologies in original ways, using an innovative and stimulating teaching approach.
Departmental research interests
- Environmental change
- Development, territory and governance
- Sustainable development
- Watershed dynamics
- Southeast Asian and Latin American studies
- Cultural geography
- Nordic geomorphology
- Natural resources management
- Ecosystem modelling
- Paleoenvironments and wetlands
- Metropolitan and peri-urban areas
- Geographic information science
- Applied remote sensing
For the complete list of our experts, see the Department of Geography directory.
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- Actors 1
- Adaptation to climate change and climate variability 8
- Aerobiology 1
- Africa 1
- Agent Based Models (ABM) 1
- Agrarian geography 2
- Agriculture and economics 1
- Americas 1
- Arctic 2
- Arctic region 4
- Asia 2
- Atmospheric Biogeosciences 2
- Atmospheric boundary layer 4
- Atmospheric dispersion of particles 1
- Automated extraction of cartographic objects from images 2
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- Canada 14
- Carbon cycle 4
- Central America 1
- Chile 2
- China 1
- Cities and towns 1
- City planning 2
- Climatic changes 12
- Colombia 2
- Comparative urbanism 1
- Complex systems theory 1
- Costa Rica 1
- Cuba 1
- Cultural geography 4
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- Gender, identity and difference 2
- Gentrification 2
- Geographic information science (GIScience) 1
- Geographic information systems and their applications 3
- Geography of risk and security 2
- Geological Time 5
- Geomorphology 4
- Geosimulation 1
- Geotechnology of cold regions 2
- Globalization 1
- Governance 3
- Great Canadian North 2
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- Haiti 2
- Heat waves 2
- Human geography 2
- Hydrology 6
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- Paleoecology 4
- Palynology 1
- Peat bogs 3
- Pedoarchaeology 1
- Pedogenesis 1
- Peri-urban agriculture 2
- Periurban agricultural areas 1
- Permafrost 3
- Phytogeography 1
- Plant ecology 3
- Polar regions 2
- Political ecology 5
- Political economics 4
- Political geography 3
- Port systems 1
- Power relations 1
- Prehistory and Protohistory 1
- Public utilities 1
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- Science and technology studies 5
- Sedimentary markers 1
- Settler colonialism 1
- Singapore 1
- Social environment theory 2
- Social geography 5
- Soil bioremediation 1
- Soil science 2
- South America 1
- South-Eastern Asia 2
- Southern Africa 1
- Spatial analysis 2
- Speciation 1
- Statistics applied to environmental data 1
- Sweden 1
- Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) 1
