Geography

This course examines the importance of GIS to building smart cities and the ways in which the technology can be integrated with other ICT in order to support different aspects in urban development. It covers an introduction to smart city and its components; geospatial open data and common spatial data infrastructure; enabling technologies for smart city; delivering smart cities through a geospatial strategy; GIS basics; working with ArcGIS online; using web GIS and geospatial cloud in smart city applications delivery; using 3D GIS in smart city planning and development; using mobile GIS in smart city data collection and public engagement; handling real-time geospatial data for smart city parameters monitoring; applying spatial analytics to solve spatial problems and predictive analysis in smart city planning.

Since the mid-18th century, medicine has become a major economic and political concern for those who have governed London, and a profession with extraordinarily far-reaching authority in the management and even definition of human life. The very landscape of London has been framed as a source of sickness, temptation, and pollution.  This course explores the health landscapes of London in both Victorian and contemporary times. This course compares the landscapes of disease and (im)morality of Victorian London with contemporary London, accompanied by an examination of how the intervening world wars and establishment of the welfare state shaped the social and physical landscape of the city in relation to health. This course also includes out of the classroom activites allowing students to explore the history of health, disease, and medicine in four very different London landscapes.

This course focuses on rivers, lakes, estuaries, wetlands and adjoining land (coastal and riparian zones). Taking a global perspective, with a focus on the tropics and Singapore, it explores the reservoirs, pathways and functioning of the hydrologic cycle, and the interactions between water and land, both on and below Earth’s surface. Dynamic hydrological processes and their effects, aquatic ecosystems, human interactions and impacts and ecohydrology are also covered.

The course gives a broad theoretical ground to wider work with digital geographic data. Understanding of representation and analysis of spatial elements are emphasized. The course also highlights general geographic problems within the environment and society through practical GIS applications. These treat both Swedish and international issues and vary in scale from the local to the regional. The parts within GIS that are treated include basic cartography, including projections, reference system, geographic data in digital form (maps, images, and tables) and positioning with GPS, basic analysis of geographic data in raster and vector format, and cartographic and graphical presentation of digital map material. In the course, training in oral and written communication is also included. Special emphasis is placed on the cartographic presentation of digital geographic data.

This course focuses on the concepts and practical use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for problem solving in both the social and physical sciences. Topics include vector and raster data formats and their analytical functions. Practical laboratory exercises utilizing GIS software such as ArcGIS are a core component of the course.