Environmental Assessment and Management

Entry requirements

Degree Subject - Sciences, Social Sciences and Arts and/or related work experience

Degree Classification - Bachelors degree (minimum 2.1 or equivalent)

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Months of entry

September

Course content

On this MSc course, you’ll explore why and how we use environmental assessment, the consequences of good and bad practice, and what different stakeholders expect from it.

You’ll investigate case studies to clearly illustrate how environmental assessment works to deliver more sustainable outcomes. These include (amongst others):

• Planning a strategy for a new deep coal mine
• Planning a stakeholder engagement strategy
• Working out the likely impacts of a biomass power station
• Conducting a phase 1 habitat survey
• Carrying out a sustainability appraisal of a land use plan

You’ll learn to connect the environmental process with the operational stages of development by examining environmental management plans to ensure the findings are implemented. And you’ll experience the challenges associated with developing and applying practical skills by conducting fieldwork in all weathers, interviewing members of the public, presenting findings in front of your peers, and writing environmental management plans including allocating responsibilities and timings.

This course is relevant whether your background is earth sciences or social sciences. There are no specific prerequisites, as the focus is on understanding and improving environmental assessment through the core modules, and a wide range of optional modules that offer additional employability skills associated with specific impact-prediction practice.

Information for international students

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Fees and funding

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