Environmental Studies – (M.Sc.)

Provide postgraduate studies for graduates who are seeking an environmental profile, both from the perspective of ecological economics and from the perspective of environmental management, analysis of the natural environment, global change, industrial ecology, environmental technology or biological risk as specialisations within the master'sdegree.

Once you have finished this master'sdegree, you will be able to:

* Use techniques for obtaining, analysing and processing environmental information for fieldwork and laboratory work.
* Analyse and interpret environmental processes and problems by applying your theoretical, methodological and instrumental knowledge.
* Interpret the diversity and complexity of regions and the relations between environmental phenomena and economic, social and cultural phenomena.
* Conduct regional diagnosis on environmental matters.
* Intervene and act on a range of environmental issues, as well as on environmental management, while strengthening the applied and experimental side of the field.

Skills acquired

* Applying knowledge of sciences to resolving environmental problems.
* Showing an interest in regional and environmental issues.
* Understanding resources as Materials and Energy.
* Analysing and explaining spatial and temporal relations: the relationship between the environment and social activities.
* Identifying, formulating and analysing problems related to environmental science, managing information integrally and combining the general focus with your specialisation.
* Resolving complex problems related to environmental science.
* Fully grasping the basic techniques of laboratory work and fieldwork.
* Fully grasping geographical information systems and the specific user software in the field of environmental science.
* Conducting research in environmental areas, whether related to experimental or social sciences, taking into account the level of specialisation needed to join research groups.
* Assessing, organising and planning.
* Developing an ability for analysis.
* Ethical commitment.
* Oral and written communication skills.
* Implementing and predicting changes or new situations.
* Critical reasoning.
* Recognition of diversity and multiculturalism.
* Working in multidisciplinary teams.
* Working in groups and individually.