Environmental Management : MSc

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: Water, Energy, Food Security or Pollution. There are specific core modules for each specialist area:

Food Security - Food Security; Agriculture and Climate Change; Crop Protection; Sustainable Soil Management; Dissertation Project
Energy - Low-Carbon Energy Use; Environmental Aspects of Renewable Energy; Dissertation Project
Pollution - Chemical Risk Assessment; Contaminated Land and Remediation; Behaviour of Pollutants in the Environment; Dissertation Project
Water - Lake Ecology; Dissertation Project
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