International Master's Programme in Environmental Social Science

About this programme

The International Master's Programme in Environmental Social Science (SEEKO) explores how human behaviour, power relations, institutions, and governance shape climate action, biodiversity protection, and sustainable development. Specialize in Political Science, Human Geography, or Social Anthropology while gaining skills to design policies and sustainability solutions. PARIS, DECEMBER 12, 2015. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (2nd left); Christiana Figueres (left), Executive Secretary of the UNFCCC; Laurent Fabius (2nd right), President of the COP21 climate summit and French president François Hollande (right), celebrate after the adoption of Paris Agreement. Photo: UN Photo/Mark Garten © December 12, 2015/Flickr CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Understand how politics, institutions, economic systems, and collective action shape environmental outcomes and sustainability transformations. Graduate with a master’s degree in Political Science, Human Geography, or Social Anthropology, while specializing in Environmental Social Science. Study the governance of climate change, biodiversity, natural resource management, environmental security, and sustainable development in a rapidly changing geopolitical context. Develop skills to design and evaluate environmental policies, institutions, and governance strategies across local, national, EU, and global levels. Stockholm hosts world leading institutions working on environmental policy, international climate governance, and sustainability research. The program in social environmental studies deals with how science, policy formulations and eve