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