BIDS – Selectable Courses Human Geography

BIDS – Selectable Courses Human GeographyAutumn 2014; Spring 2015

Lund University / Social Science / Human Geography / 2012-03-27

HUMAN GEOGRAPHY Kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi

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WHAT IS GEOGRAPHY? WHAT DOES A GEOGRAPHER DO?


Human Geography – Areas of research

• Economic Geography• Development Geography• Historical and Landscape Geography• Resources- and Environmental Geography• Urban- and Social Geography• Geography of Risk- and Vulnerability


Courses in English – Autumn 2014

• SASA18 – Population, Settlement and Economic Geography [7,5 credits, Study periods I]

• SGED05 - The Contemporary Geography of African Development I [15 credits, Study periods I+II]

• SGED06 - The Contemporary Geography of African Development II [15 credits, Study periods III+IV]

• UTVC20 – Human Geography: New Directions in Development [7,5 credits, Study period II]


Courses in English – Spring 2015

• SGEG16 – GIS in Social Sciences – Basic Level [7,5 credits, Study periods III]

• SGEG17 – GIS in Development Studies – Applications [7,5 credits, Study periods IV]


Courses in Swedish – Autumn 2014• SGEA22 – Samhällsgeografi: Fortsättningskurs

(Level 2) [30 credits, Study periods I-IV]

• SGEK02 – Samhällsgeografi: Kandidatkurs (Bachelor course) [30 credits, Study periods I-IV – if you are eligible]

• SGEG10– GIS: Geografiska Informationssystem för Samhällsvetenskap, introduktion med tillämpningar[30 credits, Study periods I-IV]


Courses in Swedish – Spring 2015

• SGEA22 – Samhällsgeografi: Fortsättningskurs (Level 2) [30 credits, Study periods I-IV]

• SGEG10 – GIS: Geografiska Informationssystem för Samhällsvetenskap, introduktion med tillämpningar[30 credits, Study periods I-IV]


Research Areas in Development Geography• AFRINT [African Intensification] – Agricultural Development in Asia/Africa – studies the

distribution of (or the lack of distribution of) ”Green Revolution Technology” in Africa

• RuDe – Rural Development – a larger cross-disciplinary research project in the process of being initiated and which is a cooperation between Human Geography, Sociology and Economic History

• Chinese aid to Africa and agricultural development in West Africa

• Diversification in South East Asian agriculture with a focus on Vietnam


Research Areas in Development Geography

• Rural and urban transformation in Uganda and Kenya

• Consequences of the AIDS-epidemic in Africa, with a special focus on Tanzania

• Economic uses of the rainforest in Nigeria and Cameroon

• Territorial rural development in Argentina

• Geographies of e-waste and environmental justice in Cameroon



• Economic uses of the rainforest in Nigeria and Cameroon



• Territorial rural development in Argentina


Research Areas in Development Geography• Geographies of e-waste and environmental justice in Cameroon


The case of Cameroon


Research Areas in Development Geography• Assessing the potential socio-economic opportunities and challenges of

Bio-char adoption on small-holder farming systems in Kenya.


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