Dr. Thomas Mbeki

Off today

Visiting Professor · Geography & GIS/Data

Dr. Mbeki is a physical and human geographer whose work examines climate adaptation in coastal cities, land use change, and environmental justice. He brings an international perspective from fieldwork across sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia.

GEO-301 GEO-404

Contact & office

✉ tmbeki@urbanicity.space

🏢 Online — office hours by video

Office hours: Mon 9:00 AM-11:00 AM · Ames Hall 118 | Wed 3:00 PM-5:00 PM · Ames Hall 118

College

Ph.D. Geography — University of Cape Town (2012)

M.Sc. Environmental Science — University of Nairobi (2007)

B.Sc. Geography — University of Dar es Salaam (2005)

Family

Visiting from Cape Town; family holds down the home front across two hemispheres.

★ Birding — 412 species and counting

Teaching now — GEO-404

Last #1 · Lesson 1: Foundations of Economic Geography ↗

Current #2 · Lesson 2: Spatial Economics and Location Theory ↗

Next #3 · Lesson 3: Global Trade Networks ↗

Recommends

NASA Earth Observatory ↗

Reading list

Prisoners of Geography ↗

Tim Marshall · from the syllabus

Guns, Germs, and Steel ↗

Jared Diamond · from the syllabus

Cry, the Beloved Country ↗

Alan Paton · fiction

Field

Climate adaptation, coastal urbanization, environmental justice, land use change, sustainable development