The Department of Geography and Environmental Studies is actively engaged in research in Nova Scotia and abroad on a number of topics.  Students and faculty in the department are actively engaged in research in the following areas: climate change vulnerability and adaptation
; community-based conservation and citizen science; cultural interpretations of places, landscapes and tourist sites; geomorphometric analysis
; natural hazards, environmental change and their human impacts; rural and regional development; and urban development and planning. 

To read more about research conducted in the department please select: 

• Faculty Research
• Graduate Theses
• Undergraduate Honours Theses