Environmental Sustainability

Entry requirements

A UK 2:1 honours degree, or its international equivalent, in a biological, environmental or physical science, geography, social science or other relevant subject. Due to the focus of this programme, business-related degrees are not suitable for entry.

Months of entry

September

Course content

Our world faces significant and complex challenges, from rising inequality to environmental issues. Global climate change is now affecting everyone on the planet.

Ensuring environmental sustainability is one of the most significant challenges facing humanity in the 21st century, and raises urgent questions such as:

• What is sustainability?
• What are the debates and challenges surrounding different models of sustainable development?
• How can economic and energy systems be restructured to combat climate change?
• What policies foster sustainability? What are the challenges and implications of implementing these in the ‘Global South’ and the ‘Global North’?

At this critical moment, more organisations are working to promote sustainable development, reduce human impacts on the environment, and achieve economic equity. These initiatives include the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

With the MSc Environmental Sustainability, you can explore these questions and other significant challenges affecting our present and future world.

You will be encouraged to think across different disciplines and consider scientific, socio-economic, and policy perspectives to better understand sustainability and how it can be achieved in different geographical contexts.

You can explore critical social and global issues and ways to address these to benefit individuals, communities, societies and nature.

Our programme gives you an international perspective, focusing on regions in both the ‘Global South’ and ‘Global North’.

Programme Benefits

• Benefit from our excellent relationships with a variety of organisations, providing access to potential employers and possible opportunities to collaborate on dissertation projects that provide valuable real-world experience.