Research and Community Services
The Department of Geography and Environmental Studies is conducting research basically on three thematic areas which include:
- Urban & Regional Development and management thematic areas.
○Urban growth, development planning, and management
- Urban poverty
- Urban environment
- Urban governance and administration
- Urban growth
- Urban systems and rural-urban linkages
- Planning and managing urban services and housing
○ Regional growth, development planning and management
- Regional governance, and decentralization
- Dynamics of regional growth and development
- Regional development policy and planning
- Regional specialization, competitiveness and inter and intra-regional linkages
- Resources analysis and management and the application of GIS and Remote Sensing.
○ The process and extent of land degradation
○ The causes, consequences and implication of land degradation
○ Management of land resources
○ Livelihood and food security
- Sustainable rural livelihoods and food security
○ Challenges of population dynamics and poverty on food security and the environment
○ Role of women in sustainable rural livelihoods and resource management
○ Integration of indigenous knowledge in assuring food security and sustainable
resource management
○ The need for enabling institutions for sustainable rural food security and
development
○ Understanding and analyzing rural household economy for diversification.
