regional economics: the discipline mainly relies on the yunnan research institute of geography. with the process of researching practice of last 30 years in yunnan province, the accumulation of results, and long-term cooperation with international organizations, some characteristic areas were gradually formed, namely sub-regional economic cooperation with south-east asia, the regional development under multi-culture, mountain economy and rural development, and sustainable utilization and management of regional resources. advanced teaching facilities, field survey equipment, and 3s (gis, rs, gps) laboratory are in use. the graduates of this discipline can work in researching institutions of geography or economics, start up business, publicize or report relevant information of certain fields in news media, and do management work in provincial governmental and non-governmental departments, and public institutions. physical geography: the discipline owns the laboratory of gis and digital earth, and a excellent team with high academic level. the main researching interest is earth 's surface natural environment system and evolution laws of integrated physical geographical process. the key researching directions are mountain environment analysis, the mechanism, forecast and mitigation countermeasures of mountain hazards, rational utilization and coordinated management of international rivers' water resources, and the relationships between resource utilization and environment, etc. human geography: this discipline emphasizes the basic applications and fundamental researches and has theoretical and practical research strengths in the fields of regional economics, regional management, and regional development, etc. the researching directions are regional economy and regional development management, regional development and theory, resources, environment and culture, and regional development. there are 30 faculty members, including 22 professors and associate professors. moreover, the research funding is adequate. at present, various types of ongoing research projects amounts to more than 20 items. the graduates can either work in governmental, non-governmental departments, companies, enterprises, and banks or further their studies in relevant universities or research institutes. cartography and gis: there are mainly 4 research directions, integration and application of mountainous population, resources and environment geographical information system, method and application of remote sensing technology, digital region and urban spatial information system, and plateau-mountain ecological information system. the researches focus on the problems of plateau and mountainous region population development, resource development and protection, and environmental change monitoring, etc and excavate the application of 3s technology in regions of low latitude plateau, mountainous landform, big relative height difference, complex environment, diversified biology, diversified ethnicity, and diversified culture. this discipline owns the digital earth and remote sensing laboratory and a team with high academic level. meteorology: this discipline has atmospheric circulation numerical simulation laboratory, disaster research center, vsat satellite ground receiving station, modis satellite data receiving system, and southeast asia climate and environment research center. the research directions are climate change and tropical monsoons, mountain climate and mountain disasters, climate diagnostics and drought-flood forecasting, and atmospheric ozone and climate change. atmospheric physics and atmospheric environment: this discipline has atmospheric physics and atmospheric environment laboratory, atmospheric ozone observatory, vsat satellite ground receiving station, modis satellite data receiving system, and southeast asia climate and environment research center. the research directions are atmospheric ozone and climate change, uv radiation and its ecological effects, atmospheric aerosol radiation climate effects. solid geophysics: this discipline was run jointly by the department of geophysics in the school of resource environment and earth science and earthquake administration of yunnan province. there are 4 professors, 2 associate professors. 2 of them have doctoral degrees. this discipline owns seismic laboratory, geomagnetic and geoelectric laboratory, gravity laboratory, and ultrasonic simulation laboratory. the main research directions are seismic wave propagation theory, crust-mantle structure, earth's interior physics,seismicity, and earth electromagnetics, etc. faculty members undertook many projects supported by and natural science foundation of yunnan province. land resource management: the main focuses of this discipline are land resources, land assets, land use, land rules, land protection, land property rights, watershed land management, and land-man relationships, etc. now, there are 4 research directions, land use planning and management, land cover change and land information technology, watershed management, and land productivity potentiality and land sustainable use. the discipline has the 3s (gis, rs, gps) laboratory. the graduates can work in departments of land resource, urban construction, agriculture, and real estate, etc or teaching and researching units. |
