Master's Programme in Social-ecological resilience for sustainable development

Entry requirements

General entry requirements

Specific entry requirements: Admission to the programme requires knowledge equivalent to a Bachelor's degree and experience, within or outside the degree, in a field relevant to the program.

Months of entry

August, September

Course content

Our Master’s programme in Social-Ecological Resilience for Sustainable Development is a research-focused programme that introduces you to the complexity of interactions between humans and nature. You learn to use resilience thinking as an approach to understanding and managing social-ecological systems.

The programme aims to enhance your understanding of the complex interactions between social and ecological dynamics at different scales and in the context of change and uncertainty. You are introduced to different research approaches and methods for studying coupled social and ecological systems. You do this in an international and highly interactive learning environment. The aim is to provide our students with insights into problem-driven transdisciplinary environmental research, in order to contribute to the research in this field and to address real-world problems.

Reasons to choose:

• Broad training in methods for studying the complexities of social-ecological systems
• Emphasis on how resilience thinking can be applied to solve real-world problems
• International and highly interactive learning environment where you develop skills and networks