Collage of water map with water usage statistics, water dam

GEOG 4501 / 5501 Water Resources and Management of the Western U.S.

This course is an overview of the human dimensions of water: the law, policy, economics, management, and valuation of water in the western United States. The West has a completely different legal structure than the East for the administration of water, and a culture that has developed different methods of...

Geography Department featured in Colorado Arts and Sciences Magazine

April 27, 2017

"Encompassing South American wildfires, Arctic sea-ice retreat, post-Soviet politics, climate change in Tibet and GIS, CU Boulder geographers keep their fingers on the pulse of a changing world" A new article titled "This is not your junior-high geography" by CU's Clint Talbott featuring the Geography Department has been published in...