Course summary

This distance learning course provides the scientific and interdisciplinary insight into the challenges a transition to a green economy represents and how to address them. The development of a green economy is a political and socio-economic imperative. Why study MSc Green Economy at BU?

• Enjoy the flexibility of a distance learning course, which allows you to undertake a work-based project instead of a research project to support your dissertation

• You will develop your knowledge of ecology, geography, social science, psychology and technology in this multidimensional course

• Understand the challenges of reducing carbon emissions, overexploitation of resources and widespread environmental degradation, which pose a danger to human wellbeing

• Acquire the scientific understanding on which the transition to a green economy can be based, including the principles of environmental sustainability and the societal responses required to implement these in practice

• Profit from our expert academics and their knowledge of sustainability and tools that inform environmental practice and policy implementation.