This course explores the exploitation of natural environments and the relationships between sustainable environmental management and natural ecosystems. It examines how sustainable environmental management and behaviour can be promoted and achieved.
Throughout this course, you will be exposed to the socioeconomic, ecological, and environmental challenges associated with the provision of goods and services. As well as the sustainable management of the natural and built environment, which cannot be achieved with business-as-usual practices.
You will study theoretical, practical, and legal frameworks for promoting sustainable environmental practices at individual, institutional and governmental levels. In addition, you’ll learn how to innovate, respond to new and emerging challenges, and work effectively in changing and unfamiliar situations.
Your final masters award title will be reflected by your chosen pathway:
Environmental Management MSc
This core pathway explores the rationale behind the exploitation of natural environments. It provides you with detailed knowledge and understanding of the relationships between sustainable environmental management and natural ecosystems, and the value of adopting an integrated approach to studying both.
Environmental Management (Energy) MSc
This pathway is timely, nationally and internationally relevant. For example, considering the world's energy needs, as well as the surrounding political debates regarding fossil fuels and increasingly, renewables, which form such an essential component of the world's existence.
Environmental management research at Kingston covers the following areas:
- waste resources management and circular economy
- community engagement with nature monitoring and citizen science
- the role the voluntary and community sector plays in providing resilience to hazards and how they can be effectively included in resilience planning and decision making at the local level.
- sustainable water resource management solutions in global contexts (e.g. desalination integration)
- applications of Geographical Information Systems to resource and biodiversity management
- conservation management in the UK and Madagascar
- salt marsh carbon sequestration
- virtual reality visualisation of nature-based environmental solutions
