Environmental Management BSc(Hons)

Why choose this course?

This course explores our environment and how humans interact with environmental systems. It enables you to study how environmental management can be applied to the sustainable development of global, national and local communities. You will examine how environmental knowledge is applied in business, government and planning.

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What will you study?

You will study the concepts of environmental science and essential scientific investigation techniques, focusing on human interaction with the environment, including the use of resources and response to natural hazards. You will develop your environmental investigation, monitoring and management skills, and will study modules in sustainability and environmental change.

Please note that this is an indicative list of modules and is not intended as a definitive list. Those listed here may also be a mixture of core and optional modules.

Year 1

• Understanding the Environment
• Earth Environments
• Hazards, Resources and Society OR Metals and Molecules in the Environment
• Investigating the Earth and Environment
• Digital Earth

• Digital Earth

  Digital Earth introduces the underlying geographical skills of data collection, manipulation, analysis and presentation and the use of computers for dealing with digital spatial data. It focuses on the concepts and value of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) in geosciences and the importance of digital spatial data in the modern geo-infrastructure.

  
   
• Globalising Worlds
• The Dynamic Earth
• Sustainable Development: Issues and Concepts

Year 2

• Ecology: Principles and Practice
• Remote Sensing
• Hazard, Risk and Vulnerability Assessment
• Environmental Management: Tools and Methodologies
• Collection and Analysis of Experimental Data
• Project Design and Management
• Option modules

• Option modules

  Possible options include:

  • Environmental Economics
  • Environmental Impact of Chemical and Energy Production
  • Environmental Pollution
  • Geomorphology
  • Hazard, Risk and Vulnerability Assessment
  • Hydrology
  • Invertebrate Diversity
  • Marine and Freshwater Ecology
  • Planning and the Environment
  
   

Year 3

• Research Project
• Achieving a Sustainable Future
• Managing Environmental Change