This course provides a firm grounding, through its core modules, in the fundamental principles of environmental science that underpin environmental management. It aims to prepare students for jobs in environmental consultancy and business, in government and non-governmental organisations and in environmental research, either in the UK or overseas. A wide choice of optional modules allows students to structure their degrees according to their own specific interests in environmental science, ecology and conservation, and environmental policy and economics. Through its emphasis on research, environmental assessment methods, and the application of critical thinking to specific case studies, the course equips students to analyse and tackle the complex, multi-faceted problems that characterise environmental management. Great emphasis is placed on problem solving, particularly on issues currently being investigated by research staff within the Environment Department and the Stockholm Environmental Institute at York (SEIY), which is part of the Environment Department. Students can do their dissertation work in the Environment Department, at the Food and Environment Research Agency (FERA) or SEIY, or with some other appropriate institution or organisation. Alternatively they might choose to use a combination of these, for example by being based at the Environment Department for the majority of their work, but also going to FERA to use special analytical facilities available there, or going overseas to work on SEIY field projects.

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