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Masters in Environment & Development

What links poverty and the natural environment? Are there environmental limits to economic growth? Does development solve poverty and environmental degradation, or create new problems? How will climate change shape the opportunities of people living in poverty?

The Masters in Environment and Development explores the links between environmental change and the well-being and dignity of people living in poverty. By bringing together the latest environmental research with practical knowledge of international development, you will learn to analyse pressing social and environmental problems. Whether you presently work with an NGO or seek a career in environment and development, this MSc will equip you with skills to look at real world problems in a new way.

The programme has strong links to international development practices and outside organisations. The skills obtained during the programme would enable students to work for development agencies in the government and non-government sector.

- Betsy Olson (Director of MSc)