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Society, Economy and Environment (SEE)

The Society, Economy and Environment (SEE) Research Group explores a series of related themes across three broad headings:

  • Society: including lifestyle, adaptation, identity and politics, everyday geographies;

  •  Economy: including enterprise and (in)formal economies,

  •  Environment: including environmental risk and governance.

The major challenges that are associated with these themes are explored in different national settings, with a particular focus on the European Union, post-Soviet Russia and the Asia-Pacific region.  The group’s research interests include:
  • Geographies of lived experiences: lifestyle, employment, coping with unemployment, retirement, adaptation to climate change.

  • Re-visioning empire in post-Soviet Russia: discourses of space, identity and politics in contemporary neo-conservatism.

  • Enterprise and economic geographies: adaptation, competitiveness, innovation and resilience during a period of significant economic turbulence. 

  • Environmental risk and governance: research questions spanning the boundary between the physical and the social sciences.

  • Energy: politics, sustainability and lifestyles

  • Methodology: developing new research techniques responding to 21st century issues