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School of Geography and the Environment

University of Oxford
School of Geography and the Environment

 School of Geography and the Environment

Welcome

The School of Geography and the Environment is an intellectually vibrant, research-intensive academic department at the centre of British geography.

School of Geography and the Environment ranked joint first in RAE 2008

The School has:

research excellence in its core disciplines

one of the UK's leading
Undergraduate Honour Schools in Geography

a world-class
International Graduate School

 

Forthcoming Seminars - Weeks 4 and 5 Hilary Term 2010

Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests Seminar Series
Week 4: 4.15pm, Tuesday 9 February 2010, H O Beckit Room (MSc Room 1), SoGE

Forest governance: the key challenge for REDD? Some lessons from Africa.

Simon Counsell, Executive Director, The Rainforest Foundation UK.

Research Seminar Series
Week 4: 4.30pm, Tuesday 9 February 2010, A J Herbertson Room (Board Room), SoGE

Low impact development in the city.

Dr Jenny Pickerill, Senior Lecturer in Human Geography, University of Leicester, and Dr Larch Maxey, Lecturer, Swansea University.

Environmental Change Institute Seminar
Week 4: 11am, Wednesday 10 February 2010, Halford Mackinder Lecture Theatre, SoGE

Business and sustainability: Insights from the inside.

Geoff Lye, Executive Chairman of SustainAbility, and Neil Golightly, Vice President Downstream Communications, Shell International.

Transport Studies Unit Seminar
Week 4: 5pm, Wednesday 10 February 2010, A J Herbertson Room (Board Room), SoGE

The carrot or the stick? The balance of rewards, punishment and cooperation to reduce transport energy demand.

Dr Jillian Anable, University of Aberdeen.

Research Seminar Series
Week 5: 4.30pm, Tuesday 16 February 2010, A J Herbertson Room (Board Room), SoGE

Neoliberalism and the urban poor: A view from Latin America.

Prof. Alan Gilbert, Department of Geography, University College London.

Transport Studies Unit Seminar
Week 5: 5pm, Wednesday 17 February 2010, A J Herbertson Room (Board Room), SoGE

No Seminar.

Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests Seminar Series
Week 5: 4.15pm, Friday 19 February 2010, H O Beckit Room (MSc Room 1), SoGE

Efforts to minimise trade in illegal timber: what the numbers say.

James Hewitt, Freelance Consultant.

Forthcoming Events

15 - 16 April 2010, SoGE, Oxford

1st Oxford Interdisciplinary Desert Conference: Integrating Research, Expanding Knowledge

This interdisciplinary conference aims to bring together researchers with interest in desert and dryland people and environments. The conference goal is to stimulate debate and collaboration across the multiple academic departments that investigate, monitor, conserve and work in arid and semi-arid regions.

4 - 9 July 2010, University of Oxford

UNIQ Geography Summer School

A brand new summer school open to UK state school students currently in the lower sixth form (Year 12).

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