Environment-society scholarship at Syracuse University encompasses the fields of political ecology, political economy of nature, environmental history, energy and natural resources, environmental governance, environmental justice, water resources, animal geographies, hazards and social vulnerability, development and livelihoods, and the human dimensions of environmental change.<br><br>Syracuse geographers view environment-society relations dialectically and focus on the social relations of power through which particular forms of nature are produced and governed. We share a commitment to critical scholarship and social justice and value empirical (often field-based) investigation, as well as critical social theory.<br><br>The Maxwell Department of Geography has a large cohort of faculty and graduate students engaged in environment-society scholarship. We have a strong record of publishing and external funding and regularly organize conferences, workshops, and other events.<br><br>We have an active research profile, which in recent years has included investigations into the gendered dimensions of water governance in South Asia, climate change politics in the United States, the historical development of the US petro-chemical industry, the relationship between extractive industries and rural livelihoods in Bolivia, the relationship between wildfires and human activity in California, and environmental mapping, land use, and vegetation change in the Amazon Basin.