Environment and Development MSc

University of Edinburgh School of GeoSciences

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Full time September MSc 1 year full-time

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Our MSc Environment and Development enables you to critically evaluate the interrelationships between development and the environment, with a strong emphasis on social and environmental justice.

You will learn about issues that are inherently transboundary, multi-generational and multi-faceted. Our approach to understanding these issues will centre on questions of justice and inequalities.

Attempts to understand and address interconnected issues such as climate justice, gender and social equity, and biodiversity conservation must pay close attention to their contested, political and ideological nature, and how they differ across places and scales.

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Entry requirements for individual programmes vary, so please check the details for the specific programme you wish to apply for on our website. You will also need to meet the University’s language requirements.

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University of Edinburgh

Edinburgh. Extraordinary futures await. The University of Edinburgh, founded in 1583, is an internationally renowned centre for teaching and research. We are widely regarded as one of the most prestigious universities in Europe, consistently placed among the top 50 leading universities in the world (Times Higher Education World Rankings) and placed 34th in the QS World University Rankings 2026. Our students have been making an impact on the world for more than 400 years. Each year is different – every individual, every degree, every campus experience is unique and a vital part of our mission to make the world a better place.

School of GeoSciences

Our world is facing many significant and complex challenges. Rising inequality and the mass displacement of people, urbanisation, unprecedented rates of climate and environmental change and associated extreme events, and finite natural resources all pose formidable challenges for the future. By studying with us you will be in an exceptional position to help make the future better. Spanning a wide range of physical and social sciences, and the humanities, we are internationally renowned for our approach to interdisciplinary research and teaching. Through our world-leading research, teaching, innovation and impact, we strive to solve real-world problems of local, national and international relevance. You will be uniquely placed to address local and global issues relating to inequality and vulnerability; urban precarity; nature; cultural meanings; development and sustainability; climate and environmental change; natural resources; and natural hazards, risk and resilience.

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Why study at School of GeoSciences?

We are one of the largest and most successful interdisciplinary groupings of geographers and geoscientists in the UK.

Our world-leading research, teaching, innovation and impact, strives to solve real-world problems of local, national and international relevance.

We are internationally renowned for our approach to interdisciplinary research and teaching.

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About School of GeoSciences

At the School of GeoSciences we examine the interactions between the Earth’s geology, atmosphere, oceans and life, as well as considering our own role and impact on our planet.

The effect of these complex relationships is vitally important to our world’s future, which means the skills and knowledge you will develop as a postgraduate student here will put you in an exceptional position to help make that future better. Spanning the entire spectrum of the geosciences field, we offer opportunities that are increasingly interdisciplinary and international in focus.

We are the largest geoscience research group in the UK, with around 400 academics and researchers. The quality of our research is second to none: we were ranked top in the UK for research power in the Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2014. We were also identified as having the greatest concentration of ‘world-leading’ and ‘internationally excellent’ researchers in the UK. We offer dedicated expertise across our core teaching areas of ecology, environmental sciences, geography, geology, geophysics, meteorology and oceanography.

Masters courses at School of GeoSciences

Agricultural Geography

Applied Geology

Business

Climatology - Climate & Climate Change

Climatology - Meteorology

Earth Science

Economics

Energy Technologies

Environmental Geography

Geochemistry

Geological Oceanography

Geophysics

Geoscience

Geotechnical Engineering

Glaciology & Cryospheric Systems

Management Studies

Marine Sciences

Palaeontology

Physical Geography - GIS

Physical Geography - Remote Sensing

Rural Estate and Farm Management

Soil Science

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