12 monthsProgramme duration
25,320 GBPTuition Fee/year
SepStarting Month
Programme overview
Main Subject
Environmental Sciences
Degree
MSc
Study Level
Masters
Study Mode
On Campus
Why are we facing a planetary ecological crisis? How are politics and governance changing in response to climate change? And what can we do to solve the world’s major socio-ecological problems?
The MSc Environment, Politics and Development programme addresses these pressing questions through a combination of critical political ecology and interdisciplinary approaches. The programme is taught by leading political ecologists who have research and practitioner experience at various scales and locations across the Global South.
The programme's teaching engages with the most important global thinkers and considers power structures and relations along the lines of race, gender, class and caste in global political ecology. The course offers a critical analysis of key issues including climate change governance, extractivism, water, forestry, agricultural production, biodiversity, infrastructure, AI, and the energy transition.
Perhaps most importantly, you will analyse and assess proposed solutions to ecological crises, including loss and damage compensation, mitigation and adaptation, market-based solutions, degrowth, green new deals, and climate reparations.
As you will see from the programme structure below, you can build a bespoke combination of teaching modules which allows you to study climate change and ecology from the perspective of Law, Politics, Anthropology, Economics, or Development Studies according to your preference. This radically interdisciplinary structure means you can build your legal literacy or develop skills from other disciplines to suit your intended career trajectory.
The MSc asks many important questions, including:
The MSc Environment, Politics and Development programme addresses these pressing questions through a combination of critical political ecology and interdisciplinary approaches. The programme is taught by leading political ecologists who have research and practitioner experience at various scales and locations across the Global South.
The programme's teaching engages with the most important global thinkers and considers power structures and relations along the lines of race, gender, class and caste in global political ecology. The course offers a critical analysis of key issues including climate change governance, extractivism, water, forestry, agricultural production, biodiversity, infrastructure, AI, and the energy transition.
Perhaps most importantly, you will analyse and assess proposed solutions to ecological crises, including loss and damage compensation, mitigation and adaptation, market-based solutions, degrowth, green new deals, and climate reparations.
As you will see from the programme structure below, you can build a bespoke combination of teaching modules which allows you to study climate change and ecology from the perspective of Law, Politics, Anthropology, Economics, or Development Studies according to your preference. This radically interdisciplinary structure means you can build your legal literacy or develop skills from other disciplines to suit your intended career trajectory.
The MSc asks many important questions, including:
- How can we analyse structural socio-ecological injustice between the Global South and North?
- Will proposals like Green New Deals, Degrowth, Agroecology, Loss and Damage Payments, and Climate Reparations work for the most marginalised?
- How are AI advances and data centres impacting the environment and affecting efforts to decarbonise?
- How does the environment intersect with global poverty, wealth and questions of inequality?
- How are Indigenous communities leading and challenging environmentalism?
- Can Carbon trading offer a solution to managing climate change?
- How do ‘race’ and racism influence the climate crisis?
- How does access to water intersect with dynamics of wealth and poverty?
- Is wildlife conservation implicated in social injustices?
- What role can and do environmental movements play in development?
- How can we organise the global economy in a just and sustainable way?
Programme overview
Main Subject
Environmental Sciences
Degree
MSc
Study Level
Masters
Study Mode
On Campus
Why are we facing a planetary ecological crisis? How are politics and governance changing in response to climate change? And what can we do to solve the world’s major socio-ecological problems?
The MSc Environment, Politics and Development programme addresses these pressing questions through a combination of critical political ecology and interdisciplinary approaches. The programme is taught by leading political ecologists who have research and practitioner experience at various scales and locations across the Global South.
The programme's teaching engages with the most important global thinkers and considers power structures and relations along the lines of race, gender, class and caste in global political ecology. The course offers a critical analysis of key issues including climate change governance, extractivism, water, forestry, agricultural production, biodiversity, infrastructure, AI, and the energy transition.
Perhaps most importantly, you will analyse and assess proposed solutions to ecological crises, including loss and damage compensation, mitigation and adaptation, market-based solutions, degrowth, green new deals, and climate reparations.
As you will see from the programme structure below, you can build a bespoke combination of teaching modules which allows you to study climate change and ecology from the perspective of Law, Politics, Anthropology, Economics, or Development Studies according to your preference. This radically interdisciplinary structure means you can build your legal literacy or develop skills from other disciplines to suit your intended career trajectory.
The MSc asks many important questions, including:
The MSc Environment, Politics and Development programme addresses these pressing questions through a combination of critical political ecology and interdisciplinary approaches. The programme is taught by leading political ecologists who have research and practitioner experience at various scales and locations across the Global South.
The programme's teaching engages with the most important global thinkers and considers power structures and relations along the lines of race, gender, class and caste in global political ecology. The course offers a critical analysis of key issues including climate change governance, extractivism, water, forestry, agricultural production, biodiversity, infrastructure, AI, and the energy transition.
Perhaps most importantly, you will analyse and assess proposed solutions to ecological crises, including loss and damage compensation, mitigation and adaptation, market-based solutions, degrowth, green new deals, and climate reparations.
As you will see from the programme structure below, you can build a bespoke combination of teaching modules which allows you to study climate change and ecology from the perspective of Law, Politics, Anthropology, Economics, or Development Studies according to your preference. This radically interdisciplinary structure means you can build your legal literacy or develop skills from other disciplines to suit your intended career trajectory.
The MSc asks many important questions, including:
- How can we analyse structural socio-ecological injustice between the Global South and North?
- Will proposals like Green New Deals, Degrowth, Agroecology, Loss and Damage Payments, and Climate Reparations work for the most marginalised?
- How are AI advances and data centres impacting the environment and affecting efforts to decarbonise?
- How does the environment intersect with global poverty, wealth and questions of inequality?
- How are Indigenous communities leading and challenging environmentalism?
- Can Carbon trading offer a solution to managing climate change?
- How do ‘race’ and racism influence the climate crisis?
- How does access to water intersect with dynamics of wealth and poverty?
- Is wildlife conservation implicated in social injustices?
- What role can and do environmental movements play in development?
- How can we organise the global economy in a just and sustainable way?
Admission Requirements
120+
6.5+
65+
2.7+
5+
We will consider all applications with 2:2 (or international equivalent) or higher.
In addition to degree classification we take into account other elements of the application such as supporting statement. References are optional, but can help build a stronger application if you fall below the 2:2 requirement or have non-traditional qualifications.
1 Year
Sep
Tuition fees
Domestic
12,965 GBP
International
25,320 GBP
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