Research Focus Areas

The department’s research focus areas, which overlap with and complement one another in terms of their content, are reflected primarily in its research projects but also in its teaching. They pool the department’s expertise and that of the individual working groups. The topics addressed by the key fields cover a wide range of cross-disciplinary research questions that can only be tackled adequately through inter- and transdisciplinary dialogue. For this reason, they focus on building up an academic network within the department and collaborations within the University of Bonn’s Transdisciplinary Research Areas as well as with other institutes and researchers at the University of Bonn, the Geoverbund ABC/J and with research partners in Germany and further afield.

The scientists at the GIUB conduct joint research across working groups in projects relating to the department's research focus areas. These address key global challenges facing human societies and the Earth system. They lie at the intersection of physical geography and human geography and are addressed through intradisciplinary collaboration. 

If you would like to find out more about the individual research focus areas, please click on the following websites: 

• Water Futures
  
• Risk and Security
  
• Governing Transformations
  
• Inequality and Justice
  
• Land Surface Dynamics