Master in Sciences and Management of Nature: Global Change Ecology & Sustainable Development Goals - GCE & SDG
Master degree
DURATION
2 years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
TUITION FEES
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
Key Summary
About: The English-taught Global Change Ecology & Sustainable Development Goals track is part of the Master's in Sciences and Management of Nature at Alma Mater Studiorum, Università di Bologna. It teaches interdisciplinary analysis of ecological, social, and economic effects of global change on natural, agricultural, and social resources, offering theoretical and practical methods to assess ecosystem processes and develop sustainable development responses.
Career Outcomes: Graduates can pursue roles including environmental consultant, conservation scientist, natural resource manager, policy analyst, sustainability officer in environmental science, conservation, policy, and resource management using skills in ecology, monitoring, and stakeholder engagement and applied research roles.
Global change ecology and sustainable development goals is the English taught curriculum of the Master's degree programme in Sciences and Management of Nature.
The programme - entirely taught in English - enables students to investigate the ecological, social and economic implications of global changes on natural, agricultural and social resources with an interdisciplinary approach. The course provides a solid theoretical and practical knowledge on core natural processes and how global changes affect them, but it also focuses on the increasing need to achieve sustainable development. This track - born to respond to the emerging government requirements concerning natural resources and sustainable development - offers investigation methods and practical activities useful to develop a wide range of skills and trains future professionals to analyze and deal with issues relating sustainable development.
University students may obtain economic support during their studies from the Emilia-Romagna Region, the University of Bologna, and other external bodies.