As a learner-centered and discovery-driven institution, Western Michigan University values the research of its faculty. The following lists the research interests of faculty members in the Department of Geography, Environment, and Tourism.
- Physical geography
- Geographic Information Science
- Environmental analysis of domesticated plants
- Physical geography
- Natural disasters
- Sports geography
- Human geography
- Tourism
- Hydrology
- Water resources and nonpoint source pollution
- Sino-US
- Water resources policy analysis
- Climate variability
- Climate change
- Impact on hydrological and terrestrial ecosystems
- Urban and cultural geography
- Landscape
- Tourism
- Economic and urban geography
- Urban and regional planning
- Retail and service location
- Economic development
- Africa
- Latin America
- Political economy
- Political ecology
- Qualitative methods
- Tourism
- Urban and regional planning
- Climatology
- Geographic Information Science