Environmental Management at Lancaster University - UCAS

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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 Masters 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
There are specific core modules for each specialist area. Several modules include field trips to the beautiful and topographically varied countryside around Lancaster, and beyond. All options include a dissertation project, which will enhance your practical and analytical skills and give you the chance to apply your learning to a real-world challenge. Our many research projects and partners across the globe provide exciting possibilities when you are choosing your dissertation subject. Alternatively you can do a six month research placement with a private sector company, government body or voluntary sector organisation instead of a traditional dissertation. Examples of previous dissertations include:
  • 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
This very popular course will equip you to pursue a broad range of careers including environmental monitoring, resource management and consultancy.

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, Human Geography (Urban and Regional Planning), Business, or Energy. We may also consider non-standard applicants, 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

Additional fee information

For information about fees and funding please visit our website: https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/postgraduate-courses/
Environmental Management at Lancaster University - UCAS