Sustainability and Ecology MSc, PgCert, PgDip

Centre for Alternative Technology

Explore how we can protect and rehabilitate nature whilst maintaining essential ecosystem services on our MSc Sustainability and Ecology.

Great changes have occurred in human society in the past 200 years, but much of this has come at the expense of the natural systems and species that keep us all alive and healthy. Even in remote environments, evidence of anthropogenic pollutants shows that nowhere remains unaffected.

During this course you will gain a scientific understanding of the issues surrounding the protection and rehabilitation of nature, essential or useful ecosystem services and explore solutions.

Key Areas of study

Through studying local, national and global case studies of transformative change, you will develop skills to effectively deliver and communicate sustainable transitions at different levels.

Some of the topics you will study include:

• • Landscape management and local habitat management practises with a view to maximising environmental sustainability benefits
  • Values and limitations of habitat restoration, rewilding, species reintroduction, biodiversity, conservation, health and nature and urban green infrastructure
  • Global and local scale ecological sustainability and how it relates to the ongoing demands of modern society, the integrated nature of the systemic drivers of climate change and biodiversity loss and ecological worldviews
  • Land use, biodiversity needs for conservation and ecosystem service provision
  • The political and economic bases for sustainability in resource sourcing, use and management
  • Behaviour change relevant to delivering transformational environmental change