Geography is concerned with the interactions between the physical and human
world. It has an active research agenda which provides research training and
the foundations for contact with government and private sector research and
policy employment. This agenda is based on three broad academic strengths. The
first explores the key factors associated with evolving patterns of urban and
regional development at a range of scales (metropolitan to local community),
activities (housing, farming, services), environments (urban and rural) and
contexts (Australia and the Asia Pacific), utilising a variety of innovative
methodologies. The second addresses short and long-term changes in climate,
vegetation and the physical and the human landscape. The approaches adopted aim
to explain the present-day environment and provide essential baseline data for
realistic modelling and prediction of future change and its impacts. The third
area is concerned with the socio-political structures shaping human
interactions with the biosphere and explores the community governance of
environmental and ecological change at the local national and international
scale. See also entry for 'Environmental science' and
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Mid-year entry is available for the program listed below.
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