These pages offer a glimpse of work by UK geographers with a positive impact - all have had a concrete benefit to the wider world.

Browse research into:

  Arsenic groundwater pollution
  Climate change
  Ensuring healthy cities
  Flood prevention
  Internal migration and displacement
  International boundaries
  LGBT community
  Local census statistics
  Managing coastal retreat
  Mapping UK poverty levels
  Real-world meteorology
  Restoring urban rivers
  Using virtual reality to plan cities

  Why geography is useful to policymakers
Subject matter - geographers address the big issues we face in the UK: from understanding migration and the changing ethnic mix to social cohesion and regeneration in urban areas and from finding new ways of using the countryside to cleaning up polluted rivers and beaches.Geographers work on all scales, from the local to the global and are inter-disciplinarians.

Hard copies of the NOW document are available on request.