Geography and ENVS Department at SUNY Oneonta

he environment. Geography is unique in linking the social sciences and natural sciences together. Geography is the study of patterns on the Earth caused by humans and nature. Since many types of such patterns have formed and are constantly forming, geography encompasses very diverse fields:

-nature-society interactions,
-spatial distributions and patterns of human activities or human geography, and
-methods and models for measuring and interpreting patterns on the Earth. You want to understand the world. Why not start with a river, a city, a mountain, a road, and follow it to the ends of the earth? Geography asks the big questions — How? What if? — and lets you answer them with advanced technology and a solid knowledge of the world in which you live.

1. Manage natural and urban environments
2. Analyze the evolving relationship between people and places
3. Plan transportation routes
4. Investigate sustainable land use worldwide
5. Create Geographic Management Systems for industries and government agencies
6. Help understand and restore natural ecosystems

Geographers make a difference! You can too! Beginning in fall 2016, SUNY Oneonta will offer an interdisciplinary major in environmental sustainability. The program will prepare students to collaboratively and creatively develop solutions to the pressing challenges the world faces in dealing with global climate change, loss of biodiversity, resource consumption and depletion, toxic pollutants and water shortages. Students will also learn about issues related to environmental justice and creating sustainable cities and sustainable food and transportation systems. Many of today's environmental problems are extraordinarily complex. With a curriculum that includes courses in the natural sciences, social sciences and humanities, the environmental sustainability major will prepare students to use interdisciplinary approaches to seek solutions to complicated problems.