Sustainable Environmental Development with Management Studies MSc
Facts about Sustainable Environmental Development with Management Studies
| Qualification | MSc |
|---|---|
| Duration | Full time: One year Part time: Two years |
| Attendance | Full time: Two days per week Part time: One day per week Management studies: usually two/three weekends |
| Assessment | Exams and/or coursework; dissertation (MSc) |
| Course structure | |
Choose Kingston's Sustainable Environmental Development with Management Studies MSc
This course is ideal if you:
- are interested in the environment and issues concerning sustainable development, conservation and the management of natural resources; and
- would like to gain the skills and knowledge necessary to assist with the implementation and maintenance of sustainable environmental management.
It focuses on combining sound environmental practice with economic and social agendas. These subjects are taught in combination with the fundamentals of management theory, setting your scientific knowledge in a vocational context.
What will you study?
The sustainable environmental development modules enable you to evaluate the changing nature of human interaction with the environment; examine current conservation policy, strategies and issues; and look at the involvement and response of commercial, industrial and public sectors to environmental issues. The management studies modules give you an insight into how the business world operates and will introduce you to marketing concepts and people management skills.
This course is taught by staff in the Faculty of Science, Engineering and Computing. Find out more...
Teaching staff include:
- Dr Peter Hooda;
- Dr Stuart Downward; and
- Dr Martyn Waller.
Many of the staff in the Faculty of Science, Engineering and Computing are research active. This ensures they are in touch with the latest thinking and bring best practice to your studies.
Course structure
Please note that this is an indicative list of modules and is not intended as a definitive list.
Modules
- Sustainable Environmental Management
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Sustainable Environmental Management
This module evaluates the changing nature of human interaction with the environment and the development of present day environmental awareness in the context of sustainable development.
It provides an in-depth understanding of the environmental issues faced by business and industry, and the challenge of improved sustainability against a background of evolving government policy and stakeholder pressure.
The module also promotes critical understanding of environmental management systems (EMS) as developed in response to changing environmental policy or other stakeholder demands.
- Biodiversity and Conservation
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Biodiversity and Conservation
This module reviews the concept of biodiversity and examines current conservation policy, strategies and issues as they apply at a range of scales. An examination of their applications within local, regional and national and global frameworks provides an important policy perspective.
- Water Resource Management
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Water Resource Management
This module offers an opportunity to study the relationships between water and human society at a variety of scales.
In particular, it looks at how water has been managed at global, national and regional scales and how an understanding of hydrological knowledge can be applied to practical water resources problems. It further introduces and investigates the wider concepts of water resources management, governance and water planning decisions.
- Economic Ethics and the Social Environment
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Economic Ethics and the Social Environment
This module explores the meaning and application of responsibility towards the environment, economy and society.
It uses relevant economic and geographical theory to examine local, national and international sustainability issues. In particular, we use case studies to examine the commercial, industrial and public sectors' involvement and response to a range of issues.
- Waste Management and Contaminated Land Remediation
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Waste Management and Contaminated Land Remediation
This module provides an understanding of the types, sources and effects of contaminants in the environment, and their effects on ecosystems and human health. It covers an awareness of the feasibility and limitations of the main techniques and strategies for the remediation of contaminated land. There is a specific focus on the policies and practice of waste management in developed countries.
- Research Analysis and Data Analysis
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Research Analysis and Data Analysis
This module prepares you for independent research work, including an explanation of the importance of unbiased data sampling and how it may be achieved.
It seeks to improve the quality of your scientific thought and procedure by explaining a range of statistical and other data analytical techniques applicable to environmental and spatial data.
In addition to the use of GIS elsewhere in the course, the module provides extensive experience of the use of computers for data analysis and other applications.
- Finance Resource Management
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Finance Resource Management
This module examines the role of financial accounting within organisations. It provides an overview of financial accounting systems in business and public sector organisations.
It also covers:
- the needs of first level managers for financial information and their role in supplying information;
- accounting concepts and conventions; and
- ways of measuring income and valuing assets.
- Managing People and Organisations
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Managing People and Organisations
This module will provide you with a framework which will enable you to critically reflect upon your performance and plan your professional development. It provides an understanding of human behaviour within organisations and looks at how management performance can be enhanced through effective human resource management. You will demonstrate your ability to integrate international aspects of managing people and organisations and develop an understanding of human resource practices and procedures.
- Research Project
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Research Project
The main aims of the research project are to give you the chance to:
- undertake a project in your area of interest;
- investigate, develop and critically appraise primary and secondary information sources as a basis for independent study at a postgraduate level; and
- apply specialised knowledge and skills to the analysis and solution of novel problem in the real world.
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