Economic Geography and Natural Resources
Worldwide distribution of resources, energy, and economic activity, and the environmental forces reshaping the planet.
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A survey of how agriculture, energy, industry, and trade are distributed unevenly across the globe, and how that uneven distribution shapes development, geopolitics, and inequality.
A survey of how climate change and mounting environmental pressures are reshaping the planet's physical systems and the human geography built upon them.
An overview of how the world generates, transmits, and stores energy, from fossil-fuel infrastructure and nuclear power to the renewable and grid technologies reshaping global electricity supply.
A survey of how farming methods, staple crops, livestock, fisheries, and food distribution systems vary unevenly across the globe's agricultural regions, and of the corporate and climatic forces now reshaping them.
An exploration of the shipping lanes, ports, railways, and air routes that connect the world's economies, and of the trade agreements, special zones, and logistics systems that move goods from factory floor to front door.
A survey of freshwater availability, access, and conflict across the world, from major aquifers and the rivers that cross borders to the engineered dams, desalination plants, and irrigation systems that keep cities and farms supplied.
Tourism as a global economic force: the flows of travelers that concentrate on a handful of destinations, the coastal, urban, and adventure economies those flows sustain, and the environmental and cultural costs that mass travel imposes on the places it visits.