Environmental Sustainability Science

About this programme

A distinctively-focused course based on the Sustainable Development Goals of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. You will explore three key areas: clean water, land degradation, and climate action. This course focuses on tackling complex global problems and will help you gain sought-after transferrable skills such as critical analysis and problem solving. Tailor your degree to suit your interests through a range of optional modules and research projects in every year of this course. Our teaching integrates fieldwork, skills and theory, and allows you to investigate and explore your own topics guided by research experts. There are plenty of opportunities to develop your fieldwork skills with regular day trips, a UK residential trip and an overseas residential fieldtrip. Become a next-generation geographer with hybrid knowledge and skills in human and physical geography. Environmental sustainability is one of the biggest challenges and most important targets of the present. We need to take urgent action for our planet and develop strategies to work towards a more sustainable future. On our Environmental Sustainability Science course, you will explore three key areas: clean water, land degradation and climate action. We integrate fieldwork, skills and theory using problem-based learning based on real-world scenarios to help you develop sought-after transferable skills. Working across multiple disciplines, you will learn to critically analyse, discuss and debate environmental sustainability issues and offer practical solutions to complex global problems.