The discipline studies the political, economic and cultural entanglement of different parts of the world and the local impact of globalisation. The discipline also has a substantive focus on the distribution of natural resources (land, water, energy sources, food, raw materials for industrial production), environmental issues, climate change, conflicts that are related to this and how political and economic actors deal with this.

Research

Research is organized in four research groups (which are part of the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research):

1. Urban Geographies: to gain better understanding of the diverse and complex mutual relationships between the development of urban spaces and places, time-space behaviour, individual life courses and life chances. 
2. Urban Planning: focuses on the relationships between the social, spatial, and environmental dimensions of urban processes, and on ways of purposefully and positively impacting on them.
3. Governance and Inclusive Development: understanding how changing geo-processes influence the capabilities of actors at various administrative levels and how these actors in turn influence geo-processes. It focuses at local (urban/rural) through to global levels.
4. Political and Economic Geographies: research into patterns and processes of globalization, with attention for the relationship between socio-economic, cultural and political processes on the one hand and spatial and environmental contexts on the other.

Education

The University of Amsterdam offers various bachelors and masters in Geography, Planning and International Development Studies. The UvA also organizes a number of open and summer programmes in this discipline.

Bachelor's

• Interdisciplinaire sociale wetenschap (Dutch)
• Sociale geografie en Planologie (Dutch)

Master's

• Economic Geography (Human Geography)
• Spatial Sustainability Studies
• Political Geography (Human Geography)
• Urban Geography (Human Geography)
• International Development Studies
• Urban and Regional Planning

Research Master

• International Development Studies
• Social Sciences
• Urban Studies

Summer programmes

Short and intensive English summer and winter programmes on specific themes are offered to which the discipline also contributes. For example around themes such as Sexuality, Addiction and The Everyday City.

• UvA summer School

Contact

Roeterseilandcampus 
Nieuwe Achtergracht 166
1018 WV Amsterdam
Phone: +31 20 525 4062 / 4063
E-mail: gpio-fmg@uva.nl

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