Catholic University Of Salvador - Universidade Católica do Salvador UC Sal
GRADUATE PROGRAM IN ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING
Salvador, Brazil
Master degree
DURATION
LANGUAGES
Portuguese
PACE
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
Mar 2027
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
Key Summary
About: The Professional Master in Environmental Planning (MPPA) at the Catholic University of Salvador (UCSAL) forms part of the Postgraduate Programme in Environmental Planning (PPGPA) and links to the Master and Doctorate in Territorial Planning and Social Development (PPGPTDS). Managed by the Dean of Research and Graduate Studies (PROPPG), the MPPA develops skills in environmental planning, socio‑environmental analysis and conservation. CAPES approved the MPPA in 2006; first selection was 2007.
Career Outcomes: Graduates can work as environmental planners, territorial planners, urban planners, natural resource managers, policy analysts, environmental consultants, GIS specialists, or pursue doctoral research in the public, private and non‑profit sectors.
The Professional Master in Environmental Planning (MPPA) in the Postgraduate Program in Environmental Planning (PPGPA) together with the Master and Doctorate in Territorial Planning and Social Development, the latter approved in 2012, in the Postgraduate Program in Territorial Planning and Development (PPGPTDS) are part of the Dean of Research and Graduate Studies (PROPPG) of the Catholic University of Salvador (UCSAL), and aim to create competences, specifically in MPPA, in environmental planning from the perspective of living conditions in their socio-environmental and conservation of natural resources.
In this sense, its lines of research and its studies, with an interdisciplinary focus, associate territorial phenomena with social and environmental issues, with special emphasis on the forms of environmental intervention planned in the territory. The Professional Master's in Environmental Planning (MPPA) was approved by CAPES in 2006, having made its first selection in 2007.
