Course summary
The Earth's resources are under strain from a growing population. Now, more than ever, we need to monitor, manage and maintain our environment. This vocationally relevant Master's provides you with an in-depth critical understanding of today’s major environmental challenges. You can keep your learning broad or you can specialise in one of four areas:
- Food Security
- Energy
- Pollution
- Ecology
- Using acoustic surveys to assess rainforest mammal communities
- Plant productivity and nutrient use efficiency under diffuse solar radiation
- The geopolitics of deep-sea mining
- Urban deprivation and flood exposure in the Brazilian Amazon
- Go Wild – How much carbon could we gain by re-wilding the uplands?
- More crop per drop: does “little and often” improve crop water use efficiency
Modules
Core modules may include: Dissertation project. Optional modules may include: Food security, agriculture and climate change; using the national vegetation classification; wildlife monitoring techniques; conservation biology; habitat management; crop protection; wildlife population ecology; sustainable soil management; lake ecology; data analysis and interpretation; numerical skills; data assimilation and integration; groundwater resources and protection; contaminated land and remediation; pollution microbiology; modelling environmental processes; geological hazards; chemical risk assessment; data analysis and programming skills; environmental sampling and analysis for trace organics; global change and the earth system; physical volcanology; behaviour of pollutants in the environment; low-carbon energy use; environmental aspects of renewable energy; statistical methods and modelling; statistical inference; energy conversion; renewable energy; life cycle analysis; research methods in the social sciences; environmental governance and management; international environmental law; geoinformatics; perspectives on environment and development; environmental auditing; climate change and society; environmental law; environment and culture; ecology, conservation and culture.
Assessment method
Coursework, presentations and dissertation or research placement.
Entry requirements
2:1 Hons degree (UK or equivalent) in Geography, Biology, Chemistry, Biological Sciences, Ecology, Social Sciences, Business, Energy or similar courses. We may also consider non-standard applicants, especially those with extensive appropriate work experience or similar training in Environmental Management. Please contact us for information. We may ask you to provide a recognised English language qualification, dependent upon your nationality and where you have studied previously. We normally require an IELTS (Academic) Test with an overall score of at least 6.5, and a minimum of 6.0 in each element of the test. We also consider other English language qualifications.
Fees and funding
Tuition fees
No fee information has been provided for this course
Tuition fee status depends on a number of criteria and varies according to where in the UK you will study. For further guidance on the criteria for home or overseas tuition fees, please refer to the UKCISA website .
Additional fee information
For information about fees and funding please visit our website: www.lancaster.ac.uk/study/fees-and-funding.
Provider information
Lancaster University
Bailrigg
Lancaster
LA1 4YW