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Full time September MSc 1 year full time
Environmental Sciences (13)

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The MSc in Environmental Hazards at Cardiff University offers a comprehensive programme that equips students with advanced knowledge and technical expertise in understanding and mitigating environmental hazards. Focusing on risk assessment, you will learn to analyse past hazards and predict future ones, including floods, earthquakes, landslides, and air and water pollution. The course provides hands-on experience using cutting-edge field and laboratory equipment, as well as professional software for data analysis and remote sensing. With strong employment prospects in government agencies, consultancies, and insurance companies, you will play a vital role in making our society more resilient against disasters. For detailed entry requirements, please visit our website.

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Why study this course

This course provides an advanced understanding of environmental hazards and technical expertise in risk assessment with a focus on the methods needed to analyse past hazards and forecast future ones.

Our society is facing unprecedented environmental hazards driven by climate change and the rapid expansion of the world population. Global and local disasters cause many fatalities and cost billions of pounds every year. Earth scientists with expertise in the specialist hazard field are able to mitigate the impact of natural hazards, such as floods, earthquakes, landslides, volcanoes and coastal erosion, and environmental hazards created by people, such as air and water pollution.

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