Environment Cluster
News & Events
2 February 2018
Buaya: Measuring the scales of an ancient predator
6 November 2017
The Role of Indigenous Rights in Rainforest Preservation, Two Perspectives
4 October 2017
Environment Cluster Meeting for AY17/18
31 August 2017
Film Screening Session: Chasing Coral
18 August 2017
17 February 2017
Floating Lives at Risk: Hydropower, Pulsing Ecosystems and Water-based Communities of the Tonle Sap
14 February 2017
Film Screening Session: The Age of Consequences
17 January 2017
Rubber and Land-Cover and Land-Use Change in Mainland Southeast Asia
16 November 2016
Quaternary Tropical Palynology from Sunda and Sahol
15 February 2016
4 August 2015
26-27 February 2015
(Workshop Presentations Available)
26 November 2014
The Siren of Cirebon: A Tenth-Century Trading Vessel Lost in the Java Sea by Dr. Horst Liebner
11 November 2014
Dynamic Environments of Singapore Book Launch with Dr. Dan Friess and Dr. Grahame Oliver
17 October 2014
Public Perceptions of Rainfall Change in India Seminar by Dr. Jagadish Thaker
9 October 2014
Geography Field Studies Seminar 2014: Borderscapes, Liver Flukes, River Health & Food Culture
25 August 2014
2014 Cluster Update Newsletter
27-29 January 2014
Holocene Climate Reconstruction Conference
16 January 2014
Presentation by Prof Barbara Wohlfarth
25 October 2013
Geography Field Studies Seminar
13 September 2013
25 January 2013
Negotiating Global Change in the Asia Region
10 & 11 November 2012
Land Use and Climate Impacts on Fluvial Systems - Asia (LUCIFS-ASIA 2012)
9 march 2012
Carving Up the Commons: Hydropolitics of Mainstream Dams on the Mekong River
Talk by Dr Carl Middleton, University of Chulalongkorn, Thailand
About Us
The Environment Cluster in the National University of Singapore (NUS), Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS), is an initiative to foster interdisciplinary approaches in environment-related research. The Environment Cluster seeks to catalyze broader collaborative research efforts within the FASS, among different faculties in the NUS and with other international universities and research institutions.
Environmental issues are not only scientific and engineering problems but are also social, economic, cultural and political problems. For this reason, FASS has an important role in the field of environmental research. Environmental problems are generally complex, marked by effects that are economic, social, political and potentially even security-related, as well as the direct effects on the physical environment. . At the same time, political, social, economic and cultural factors drive many of the processes that create environmental problems. Recognizing such complexities, the FASS Environment Cluster seeks to bring together members from different disciplines to engage in meaningful and substantive research within the environmental field.
In order to facilitate such research, the Environment Cluster works to promote and organize the research capacity of the FASS. At the same time, the Environment Cluster also acts as the entry point for various other faculties and institutes for collaborative research efforts.
The Environment Cluster is currently interested in 5 main research themes:
(1) Carbon Budgeting;
(2) Food and Natural Resource Sustainability;
(3) Social Consequences of Environmental Changes and Natural Hazards;
(4) Climate Change;
(5) Upland Ecosystems and Metropolitan Relationships.
The Environment Cluster welcomes anyone whose research interests fall in these areas but is also open to any other research interests related to the environment. To join the cluster, please write to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Contact Us
Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences
National University of Singapore
The Shaw Foundation Building, Block AS7, Level 6
5 Arts Link, Singapore 117570
Environment Cluster
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Fax : (65) 66012306