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River Environmental Management – (M.Sc.)
University of Birmingham
Department of Civil Engineering
| Location: | Birmingham / United Kingdom / View location on map ▾ Hide location on map ▴ | ||
| Duration: | 12 months | Start Date: | September |
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| Languages: | English | ||
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Using a combination of lectures, tutorials, laboratory classes, fieldwork, group projects and an individual research-based thesis, this programme aims to provide the necessary appreciation of the environmental management of rivers. It provides comprehensive coverage of environmental management of rivers suitable for recent graduates and those with some experience of the water engineering or environmental management industries, who wish to gain a broader appreciation of river environmental management.
River environmental management requires a basin-wide understanding of the interactions between river, environment and human infrastructure, including the interactions between ecology, hydrology, water quality, climate, flooding and drinking water supply, waste water inputs and waste water treatment.
The EU Water Framework Directive provides an exceptionally strong driver for vocational postgraduate training in this area. Major development work is currently underway in all European member states with regard to implementation of the directive, which requires each member state to draw up river basin management plans and achieve management to 'good ecological status' by 2015.
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This degree will provide direct postgraduate training for students interested in this career direction, as well as providing advanced-level training suitable for further PhD studies in water science.
We are fortunate at Birmingham in having a wide variety of staff within the Water Sciences Research Group with interests in rivers, particularly in the arena of hydroecology, and it is this expertise that will inform the teaching of the modules in River Environmental Management.
Modules include:
* Water Quality Monitoring
* Fluvial Geomorphology
* River Ecology
* River Assessment and Biomonitoring
* Hydrology and Biogeochemical Cycling in Rivers
* Advances in Water Sciences
* River Restoration
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Requirements
* Normally a good Honours degree in Geography or a related discipline.
* IELTS 6.0 with no less than 5.5 in any band.
* TOEFL 550 Paper- based test / 213 Computer-based test.
Additional Requirements
| Minimal degree required: | Bachelor's degree |
| Minimal amount of work experience | Not specified |
Language Proficiency
| Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE): | Grade A (Score: 80) |
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