As a discipline, geography and Environmental management is pre-occupied with relationship between human beings and their environment. It seeks to understand the character of the earth’s surface, both as naturally endowed and as shaped by man and how human population can best accommodate itself on earth. The key objectives of the geography and Environmental Management programmes are:

(a) To train students in geographic methods observation, research documentation, and communication for environmental management.

(b) To train students in the arts and science of identifying anticipating, ordering, analyzing and managing changes in the environment.

(c) To expose them to the major areas of specialization in the discipline.

(d) To enable them understand socio-economic and environmental problems and be able to contribute meaningfully to their solution.

(e) To place them in a better position to make critical and rational judgment, to become more creative and to make a greater contribution to societal development.

(f) To enable them become self-reliant and self employed.