Environmental Risk Management (Taught)

The Masters in Environmental Risk Management will provide you with an in-depth understanding of how risks from natural hazards materialise and affect societies globally. You will develop conceptual and analytical skills to assess and propose innovative solutions. This programme will enhance your skills in both social and ecological sciences, focusing on conceptual, analytical, and methodological areas to address these challenges.

WHY THIS PROGRAMME

• You will explore the theoretical and practical aspects of environmental risk management concepts, tools and methods, and gain hands-on experience with cutting-edge concepts and methodologies.

• By the end of the programme, you will master the theoretical concepts, principles, and methods needed to develop subject-specific knowledge of environmental risk management with broad application from local to global levels.

• You will study in the southwest of Scotland, where the landscape offers opportunities for multiple field visits to study real case examples of risks linked to natural hazards (in the sea, on the coast, and on land).

• Our research-led teaching is delivered by academics at the forefront of debates on climate change, water, ecology and biodiversity, environmental chemistry and pollution, geospatial and social-ecological modelling within the environmental risk management field.

• You will gain hands-on social-ecological modelling experience and demonstrate how data science and models can provide real-world, actionable evidence for sustainable environmental risk management decision-making.

PROGRAMME STRUCTURE
You will take four core and two optional courses, and choose between a dissertation or work placement.

Teaching consists of a mixture of lectures, seminars and tutorials, solution focused workshop sessions (including laboratory sessions) and field-based study. Group work is an important feature of the subject and will be integral to many aspects of the programme.

Core courses
Modelling social-ecological changes and risk
Principles of Environmental Risk and Management
Research Methods in Environmental Risk and Management
Risk and Resilience of Land and Water

Recommended optional courses
Ecology, Environment and Conservation
Environmental Communication
Environmental Ethics and Behaviour Change
Environmental Politics and Society
Leading and Managing Change
Social Science Research Methods
Taxonomy and population monitoring
The Economics of Circular Tourism
Tourism Sustainability And Climate Change
Wildlife Tourism and Environmental Responsibility
Working in an inter-agency environment

Research project
Dissertation or Work Placement

CAREER PROSPECTS
The demand for environmental risk management professionals is growing with the increasing threat of climate change, natural hazards, and sustainability challenges.

The set of skills you will acquire in this programme will allow you to pursue a diversity of careers in:

• the private sector, including consultancies, business, insurance, finance

• public organisations, in particular those dealing with issues related to disaster risk reduction, climate change adaptation and sustainable development

• non-governmental organisations and intergovernmental organisations dealing with emergency planning, humanitarian response, international development

You could also proceed to undertake PhD research and a potential academic career.