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:

• Water: Lake Ecology plus a choice of 5 others
• Energy: Low-Carbon Energy Use; Environmental Aspects of Renewable Energy plus a choice of 4 others
• Food Security: Food Security, Agriculture and Climate Change; Crop Protection; Sustainable Soil Management plus a choice of 3 others
• Pollution: Chemical Risk Assessment; Contaminated Land and Remediation; Behaviour of Pollutants in the Environment plus a choice of 3 others

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

This very popular course will equip you to pursue a broad range of careers including environmental monitoring, resource management and consultancy.

Course Structure

You will study a range of modules as part of your course, some examples of which are listed below.

Core

• Dissertation Project

Optional

• Environmental Aspects of Renewable Energy
• Approaches in Environmental Data Analytics
• Renewable Energy
• Food Security, Agriculture and Climate Change
• Using the National Vegetation Classification
• Wildlife Monitoring Techniques
• Conservation Biology
• Habitat Management
• Crop Protection
• Wildlife Population Ecology
• Sustainable Soil Management
• Lake Ecology
• Data Analysis and Interpretation
• Numerical Skills
• Groundwater Resources and Protection
• Contaminated Land and Remediation
• Pollution Microbiology
• Modelling Environmental Processes
• Geological Hazards
• Chemical Risk Assessment
• Data Analysis and Programming Skills
• Environmental Sampling and Analysis for Trace Organics
• Global Change and the Earth System
• Physical Volcanology
• Behaviour of Pollutants in the Environment
• Low-carbon energy use
• Statistical Methods and Modelling
• Statistical Inference
• Research Methods in the Social Sciences
• Environmental Governance and Management
• International Environmental Law
• Geoinformatics
• Perspectives on Environment and Development
• Climate Change and Society
• Environmental Law
• Environment and Culture

Information contained on the website with respect to modules is correct at the time of publication, but changes may be necessary, for example as a result of student feedback, Professional Statutory and Regulatory Bodies' (PSRB) requirements, staff changes, and new research.

Assessment

Coursework, presentations, examinations and dissertation

Visit the Environmental Management - MSc page on the Lancaster University website for more details!