理学硕士-环境与发展

环境与发展理学硕士（E＆D）是一项跨学科计划，旨在探讨紧迫的环境问题与发展压力之间的相互依存关系。它从知识渊博的理论角度探讨了这些主题，围绕它的争端和实际问题，并一直关注社会正义主张。常规的学术方法将发展或环境分为不同的类别，而该课程将社会经济发展视为一种社会生态学和政治生态学过程。
About the programme Are you ready to explore some of the world’s most pressing challenges Understand the link between the environment, development agendas, and justice issues for today and the future. Our MSc Environment and Development enables you to critically evaluate the inter-relationships between development and the environment, with an abiding concern for social and environmental justice. What will I learn You will learn about issues that are inherently transboundary, multi-generational and multi-faceted. Our approach to understanding these issues will centre on questions of justice and inequalities. Attempts to understand and address interconnected issues such as climate justice, gender and social equity, and biodiversity conservation, must pay close attention to their contested, political and ideological nature and how they differ across places and scales. That is why our MSc foregrounds society and nature as inherently linked, historical contexts as highly relevant to current debates, and global capitalism as an underlying force of change. It will consider the increasingly diverse set of actors, practices and processes driving environment and development issues, and question the power of these to direct agendas and actions. The MSc has relevance in both the ’Global South’ and ’Global North’, drawing attention to relationships of inequality and marginalisation as they occur for particular environments and sections of society worldwide. It will provide you with a unique critical perspective as it draws on expertise from across the University, especially from development geography, social and political sciences, and environmental studies. You will explore societal and environmental issues through different theoretical and conceptual lenses, examining the interplay of sociocultural perspectives, economics and governance, development debates and ecological dynamics. There is much diversity in what you can study and conduct research on. Our flexibility enables you to develop your interests at an advanced level in an area you are most passionate about. We will challenge you to cultivate reflective critical thinking that is cross-cutting and globally relevant. Is the MSc for me The MSc provides a strong basis for engaged citizenship in the world, enabling you to contribute to world debates and actions for reducing inequalities and working towards social and environmental justice and more sustainable practices. The MSc Environment and Development will suit a range of students, including those with practical experience in the broad field of environment and development, either as practitioners, volunteers or activists. It is suitable for students from various undergraduate disciplines, from the environmental and natural sciences to the social and political sciences and humanities. We are fortunate to attract a wide range of students from around the globe, and we celebrate that diversity and the opportunities for learning that it brings. What is it really like to study with us No one knows what it is like to study here better than the students themselves. Our students are sharing their experiences - from studying to living in Edinburgh and everything in between. Get social with us: Student experience blog School of GeoSciences Instagram School of GeoSciences TikTok