Geography & Environment

Welcome to the Department of Geography & Environment's website. These Web pages will allow you to access information about the Department, its courses, staff, research interests and how to apply for its undergraduate and postgraduate programmes.

Latest News 

• Prof. Diane Perrons: Recent research project on handymen and fathering - www2.lse.ac.uk/newsAndMedia/news/archives/2010/03/handyman.aspx www.economist.com/world/britain/displaystory.cfm?story_id=15663754
• Dr Gareth Jones: New book 'Youth Violence in Latin America' -   www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=288418
• PhD ESRC scholarship funding deadlines announced
• New Course on Climate Change available at the Executive Summer School
• Dr Salvatore Di Falco has been nominated Associate Editor of the Journal Environment and Development Economics published by Cambridge University Press
• New Geography and Environment 3 year PhD Scholarship available
• Generous new Scholarship available for Geography & Environment MSc Programme in 2010/11through the Robert and Dilys Rawson Scholarship.
• Current PhD Geography student Felix Weinhardt wins the 2009 NARSC Student Paper Competition
• Advisory Board Created for MSc Real Estate Economics and Finance: Click Here for more information.
• Professor Paul Cheshire delivers lecture at Avenir Suisse symposium.
• The Urban and Regional Economics Seminar Series Begins: http://www.spatialeconomics.ac.uk/SERC/events/seminar.asp 
• LSE Geography and Environment 2nd and with best graduate prospects in The Complete University Guide
• LSE Geography and Environment among the leading departments in the 2010 Times Good University Guide
• Professor Paul Cheshire winner of the 2009 EIB-ERSA prize, the most prestigious prize in Regional Science
• LSE Geography and Environment ranks among the top departments in the Research Assessment Exercise