Geography and The Environment at the University of Texas

Space, Place and Social Worlds

Seeks to understand how socio-cultural and political-economic processes like urbanization, industrialization, poverty, health care, migration, and mediated communication interact to produce diverse socio-spatial realities across urban, regional, national and global scales. 

Environmental Changes and Surface Processes

Studies environmental changes as conditioned by biotic, climatic, geomorphic, and anthropogenic factors.

Digital Landscapes

Explores the theoretical and applied issues associated with the acquisition, measurement, representation, analysis, simulation, and visualization of digital geographic information.

Established 1949

Celebrating 60 years of Academics and Research

For 60 years the Department of Geography and the Environment has provided multiple perspectives and tools to understand the relationships between people and their environments, analyze diverse cultural landscapes, and solve problems related to local and global change.  This year the Department will sponsor a series of events to celebrate the past 60 years academics and research.