What is Area to physical and environmental geography?

Geographers are uniquely positioned to help understand and address many of the global challenges that exist today. Geographers were key contributors to the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report (IPCC, 2021), which reiterates that humans have changed our climate, stating that while a crisis can’t be averted, some of the worst effects might be mitigated. Geographers will play a role in the UN Climate Change Conference, which meets in Glasgow in November 2021 with the urgent business of trying to deliver mitigations and adaptations to limit global warming to within 1.5 degrees as per the Paris Agreement. Geographers continue to play an important role in monitoring, modelling, and mitigating of deadly floods, such as those seen across Europe in July 2021.While at face value you might assume that in the few examples above we are referring to physical and environmental geographers, in fact we are very much thinking more broadly across the roles of physical, human, and environmental geography in coming together to address these environmental and societal challenges. To address these global issues, to make genuine and applied advances that support communities, geographers need to work together across our discipline and beyond to ask and answer pressing questions and to build and sustain safe and inclusive research and teaching cultures