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sample job descriptions for geographers

The following sample job descriptions are listed in overlapping categories, according to the way geography is divided in this department at this point in time - just as boundaries can change in maps as time passes.

The categories are not meant to be limitations, but rather, starting points for thinking about jobs - to give you ideas for the kinds of work you may want to prepare for within the various focused options we offer here and now. (Other departments at other universities have other divisions, which also change from time to time.)

Jobs in Economic Geography can include:

• business and marketing geography
• regional development and location studies
• global trade and transportation
• economics of resource use and land use
• real estate valuation and location analysis
• political economy of the developing world
• urban economic studies

Jobs in Geographical Information Systems can include:

• GIS analysis
• map sources and map errors
• urban and transportation GIS analysis

• natural resource and environmental analysis

Jobs in Regional Geography and International Development can include:

• population growth and migration
• development history, theory and practice
• urbanization processes
• economic development and global interdependencie

• resources, hunger, health and poverty

Jobs in Society and Environment can include:

• resource geography
• cultural and political ecology
• health and environment
• GIS and resource analysis

• urban geography and urban processes
• political geography
• social and population geography
• medical geography

Job websites for geographers to explore (related to focus options of UW Geography)

Geographers:

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