Ecosystem Services – (M.Sc.)

Learning Outcomes Students will be able to:

* Understand the fundamentals of ecological principles, processes and non-linear dynamics of ecosystems;
* Secure an in-depth understanding of environment-society inter-relationships through case studies of services eg. food, coastal protection, carbon capture, water supplies and recreation;
* Appreciate the roles that ecosystems functions provide critical services for sustaining humanity;
* Secure the capacity to envision and conceptually model plausible scenarios of environmental management to sustain ecosystems;
* Formulate a research problem and independently carry out the research needed to produce an appropriate solution in a range of scientific or policy contexts;
* Enhanced interdisciplinary skills in specialist topics related to ecosystems including different habitat and cultural contexts with the capacity to construct non-monetary and monetary economic valuation to ecosystem components and services.

How You Will Be Taught Teaching is through a combination of lectures, tutorials, seminars, assignments, field trips, and a group or individual dissertation project.