Familiarise yourself with aspects of economics and markets, including consumption, environmental policy and governance and environmental law.

Further your knowledge of ecosystems and ecological theory, climate change, air pollution, biogeochemical cycles, biodiversity and natural resources.

Use problem-based case studies to understand the interactions between the natural and human worlds.

Improve your essential professional and transferable skills, including information searching, career planning, presentation skills, and relaxation and resilience skills.

Undertake rigorous independent research and apply your knowledge and understanding of environmental disciplines to practical problems. 

The project can be desk and/or laboratory-based and/or involve fieldwork, and can be carried out in conjunction with an outside organisation.

Gain a critical understanding of contemporary best practice in sustainable business.

Work in groups to provide solutions to contemporary sustainability projects proposed and supported by industry.

Develop business models that demonstrate positive environmental, social and economic impacts to meet ambitious sustainability goals.

Acquire a firm grounding in the technologies and principles that underpin the energy system.

Develop a broad range of skills in energy economics appraisal, policy analysis and communication.

Improve your skills for complex problem solving and interdisciplinary thinking. Apply them to analysing interconnected challenges such as geopolitical energy security and decarbonisation pathways.

Become familiar with the variety of methods and tools used for evidence-based environmental resource management and decision making.

Gain first-hand experience of environmental management in practice and engage with practitioners on a series of field visits.

Explore a wide range of environmental resources and the management approaches associated with them.

Gain an insight into the circular economy, and learn about the technical and practical issues involved in waste and resource management.

Explore some of the most important tools and techniques in environmental assessment, decision making and management.

Enhance your understanding of the pathways in the environment that pollutants follow from source to receptor. Find out how an investigation into a contaminated site is carried out.

Understand the theory underlying environmental economics and policy and explore the links between economic behaviour and the natural environment.

Gain a critical understanding of quantitative and qualitative research methods that are essential instruments in an applied economist’s toolkit.

Examine the specific challenges in the domain of environmental policy design and make a field visit to an international environmental economics and policy conference.

Analyse the nature and causes of global environmental change as understood through academic research, public policy and private sector communities.

Assess the disciplinary and interdisciplinary tools and methods used for addressing global environmental change, as well as associated regulatory and policy options.

Collaborate on group work aimed at addressing a specific global environmental challenge in an interdisciplinary setting.

Learn how water and environmental systems interact with each other and build practical skills in integrated water management.

Discover the most important tools and techniques in integrated water decision making and management. Learn about industry developments on a mixture of group work and site visits.

Enhance your understanding of the pathways in the environment that pollutants follow from source to receptor. Find out how an investigation into a contaminated site is carried out.

Examine the key elements of infrastructure that cities require to function: water, energy, waste, transport and land-use planning.

Explore the aspects of governance that cities require to function, and how cities can improve decision making to build towards healthier and more sustainable urban environments.

Identify the co-benefits, trade-offs, opportunities and barriers for sustainable decision-making in cities and explore successful templates for urban environments.