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Environmental Management at Lancaster University - UCAS

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Course summary

The Earth's resources are under strain from a growing population, over-consumption and a lack of care for our environment. Now, more than ever, we need to monitor, manage, restore and maintain our environment and the natural resources it provides. Our MSc Environmental Management equips you with the knowledge, skills and expertise necessary to make a positive, demonstrable and lasting impact to some of the world’s most urgent and complex environmental challenges. As a graduate, you will be able to take advantage of career opportunities in areas such as the private and public sector, consulting, regulatory and policy sector, and charities. We offer a flexible route to studying environmental management through a series of pathways with dedicated modules. This allows you to tailor your Master’s to suit your interests. Who is this programme for? Do you have a passion to tackle urgent environmental issues and want to make a real difference to society? This master’s seeks to produce leaders who are interdisciplinary and analytical in their approach to environmental challenges and their solutions. You may wish to advance your career in the fields of environmental management, including consultancy, policy, sustainability or sustainable development. Looking ahead to employability Our MSc in Environmental Management is designed with your career success in mind. You will:

  • Enhance your ability to think critically about the complex and dynamic nature of environmental issues
  • Become adept at designing, implementing and evaluating innovative solutions to improve and re-balance people-environment relations
  • Gain a thorough grounding in environmental assessment procedures and practices
  • Develop your project management skills
  • Improve your communication skills
What to expect Taught by world-leading environmental experts, choose your disciplinary pathway, each with four core modules and then tailor your learning with a further three optional modules from the wide selection on offer. The pathways are: General Learn about eco-innovation initiatives and the assessment of environmental impacts. Plant and Soil Systems Gain an overview of food security and agriculture within today’s context of climate change, and a detailed examination of the soils that underpin much of food production. Pollution Management Build knowledge and skills relevant to the remediation of contaminated land and how contaminants behave in the environment. Energy and Environment Engage with the energy transition, and our societal challenge to decarbonise electricity, transport, and heat. As part of your core training, we begin with an interdisciplinary module that introduces you to the diverse environmental challenges and initiatives on our doorstep, in and around the celebrated English Lake District. You gain first-hand experience of important environmental management case studies and the opportunity to meet a variety of stakeholders. What really makes this Master’s degree stand out is the opportunity to undertake a six-month dissertation project with a partner organisation. You will apply your learning to a real-world situation with either a private sector company, government body or voluntary sector organisation, enabling you to contribute to environmental management in an impactful way. Three things we would like you to know
  • Learn from the best! You will be taught by active researchers in a community that offers cutting-edge techniques and world-class research outcomes
  • We design our Master’s with industry professionals to expose you to real environmental issues
  • Lancaster is ideally placed for fascinating field trips to diverse and topographically varied countryside, including the Lake District, Yorkshire Dales National Park and Morecambe Bay. We take you out into the field to directly apply what you learn

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

2:2 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 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

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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.
Environmental Management at Lancaster University - UCAS