Geography and Environmental Science (R16)

This degree will help you understand and consider responses to urgent environmental challenges, including climate change, globalisation, development, biodiversity loss, migration and urbanisation. It takes a holistic approach, combining geography and environmental science. You’ll discover the complexities of our relationship with the natural environment by exploring topics like deforestation, sustainable water-resource management, pollution control, conservation and governance. Throughout this journey, you’ll examine the consequences and implications of environmental change for sustainability and learn about the social and natural processes and interactions operating in different environments.

Key features of the course
- Accredited by the Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management (CIWEM) and the Institution of Environmental Sciences (IES)

- Develop your understanding of the interrelationships between human activity and environmental change

- Use geography and science concepts and theories to make sense of environmental challenges

- Enhance your employability by working between the social and natural sciences

- Build analytical and reasoning skills needed for assessing environmental evidence