Geography, Spatial Planning and Environment Department

Our living environment is constantly changing, and this creates societal challenges. The Department of Geography, Spatial Planning and Environment (GPM) focuses on the question of how individuals and society, whether nearby or far away, interact with their living environments. Geographers analyse the relationship between the activities of individuals, businesses and institutions and their spatial environments; spatial planners decide how to intervene in spatial developments; and environmental scientists mainly study the consequences for nature and the environment and how we can attain sustainable societies. Considering they all explore the same themes from different perspectives and often work together professionally, at Radboud they are united in one department. Read more about the story of Nijmegen School of Management.

Research

The research of the section Geography, Planning and Environment seeks to provide deep understandings of how places, from the local to global level, are politically and materially shaped, experienced and governed, and to contribute to the development of more sustainable and equitable places. Our research programme is embedded in the Institute for Management Research. View all publications here.

Research in the picture

Some of the news, research projects and events of the Department of Geography, Spatial Planning and Environment are featured below. View the full news overview, all ongoing projects and staff from the department here.

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System change not climate change! New paper out: How to make climate policy more effective

Vincent de Gooyert, Heleen de Coninck and Bernard ter Haar publiced a new paper about how to make climate policy more effective.

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Bring me beyond the border - An innovative soundscape on migration

Former master's students Geography and associate professor Joris Schapendonk developed an unique soundscape that explores borders and migration.

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New publication: 'Waiting for Today's Barbarians'

New publication in the Journal of Borderlands Studies, written by PhD candidates Luuk Winkelmolen and Paschalina Garidou along with Henk van Houtum, as part of the interdisciplinary NWO research project ‘Constructing the Limes’.

Contact information

Location

Elinor Ostrom building

Heyendaalseweg 141
6525AJ Nijmegen
024-3612099
Postal address
Postbus 9108
6500HK NIJMEGEN