Department of Geography

Research Groups

Physical Geography

Topics related to glacier fluctuations/ice-age history, river floods, periglacial processes, slope processes, palaeoclimatic reconstructions.

Environmental and Landscape Geography

The group is doing research on environmental management and conservation, and the dynamics of natural and cultural landscapes.

Economic Geography, Regional Development and Planning.

Our research focus and field of competence includes several topics within economic geography, regional development and restructuring, planning and regulation, place development and spatial identity.

Development Geography

This team is engaged in the relationship between nature and society in the South, through the study of utilization of natural resources.

System dynamics

The basic research includes theories, methods, techniques and tools (software) used in studies of complex dynamic systems through modelling and simulations

Geography

Geography is a discipline that is engaged with topics concerning conditions and processes in nature and society related to a local regional, national and international context.

The department includes geography and system dynamics.

GEOGRAPHY

Wuthering heights

The City Mountains of Bergen are typically Norwegian and covered with needle-bearing trees and birch. At least that’s what the locals would like to believe.
News

Web Based Master Course on Environment and Development

Department of Geography is offering the web based course "Critical Perspectives on Environment and Development" in the spring semester 2013.
Book Series

A HISTORY OF WATER

The pioneering History of Water series brings a much needed historical perspective to the relationship between water and society. The volumes in the series aim to show how history and development – from the birth of civilization to the present day – may be enriched, and new understandings and reinterpretations realised, by a proper awareness of the significance of water. Water issues can only be fully understood when all aspects – social, cultural, political religious and technological – are properly integrated.
Article

The political ecology of Chilean salmon aquaculture

Professor Jonathan R. Barton from Instituto de Estudios Urbanos y Territoriales, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and professor Arnt Fløysand from Department of Geography University of Bergen do as last years winner of Nobel's economy price Elinor Ostrom and publish in Global Environmental Change, 20th Anniversary Special Issue.