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MSc - Master of Science
University of Surrey - Stag Hill campus
Full Time
Sep 2027
1 Year
Our Sustainable Development MSc provides you with the knowledge to help organisations move towards a greener future. It examines the societal transformations required to tackle the climate emergency, protect the environment, and shift towards sustainable consumption and production – as outlined by the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals.This course is run by our Centre for Environment and Sustainability (CES) and the Institute for Sustainability, and in partnership with the new Surrey CIFAL – a United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) training centre recently established at the University of Surrey.Sustainable development graduates are equipped to tackle the strategic challenges being faced by companies, individuals and governments, and implement the changes required to protect our planet.
The course evaluates and discusses the way environmental and social concerns have affected organisations in the private sector, and how such organisations have affected the content, shape and direction of the public debate. Particular emphasis will be paid to corporate sustinability strategies, the distribution and organisation of roles within an organisation, the contribution of different departments, as well as the industrial perspective towards industrial ecology and sustainable consumption and other recent ideas that lie beyond the traditional boundaries of an organisation, such as product-based sustainability management.
The dissertation is a compulsory module for all MSc students. The dissertation provides the opportunity for students to undertake an extended piece of work in a chosen area of interest in their field of study, working on their own with individual one-on-one supervision. It enables students to use skills drawn from the MSc programme as a whole as well as previous study or work experience. The dissertation can be based on either primary or secondary data sources taken from the public domain.
This course will introduce the basic insights of ecological economics ? that is an economics grounded in ecological realities - and situate these in the context of historical and current debates about economics and prosperity on a finite planet.
This module provides an introduction to the core concepts, policy challenges and ethical issues in Sustainable Development. It is aimed at a wide range of students and provides a grounding in sustainability ideas and issues that is self-contained but also prepares students for getting the best from the complementary module on Sustainable Development Applications.
This module provides an introduction to Sustainable Development for students primarily concerned with industrial ecology, and a consolidation and deepening of understanding for students focusing on sustainable development and corporate environmental management, who also take the Foundations of Sustainable Development module.
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