World cultures represent a diverse fabric of socioeconomic endeavors. To sustain human populations in their physical and cultural milieus, environmental managers and geographic information scientists work with resource managers, economists, land planners, and land developers to make more informed decisions about places. Geography has sharpened its traditional stature among core disciplines by leading the development of spatial analytical theory, methods and techniques. Geography is both a physical and a social science because geographers cannot study societies and their technologies without also studying the environments in which they exist. The department's programs focus on environmental management that is, human / environment interactions; and GI-Science, that is, Geographic Information Systems, remote sensing, Global Positioning System (GPS), and spatial statistics.