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University of Leicester
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MSc/PG Diploma Sustainable Management of Natural Resources

External Examiner: Professor Edward Maltby

Why you should study this programme

The MSc in Sustainable Management of Natural Resources responds to one of the greatest challenges humanity is facing today: the sustainable management of our planet's natural resources and environment, to provide sustainable livelihoods for all people into the twenty-first century and beyond.

This programme:

"I'm currently employed by DEFRA as a Stewardship Adviser and I help manage and maintain Countryside Stewardship agreements for farmers in South Yorkshire. Much of what we completed as part of the Land, Biodiversity and Sustainability modules on my MSc programme has been invaluable to me. I am just about to take up a new job with the Environment Agency and my knowledge of Green Taxation, Pollution Permits and EU Directives and Regulations played a central part in swinging the interview my way"

Martin Flack, MSc in SMNR

  • is designed for those wishing to develop a career in natural resource management.
  • allows you to explore and develop your own interests within a carefully designed and vocationally relevant set of taught modules and a dissertation.
  • is taught jointly between ecologists, economists and geographers  – meaning that you will study this programme to its fullest breadth and depth.
  • offers postgraduates an unrivalled opportunity to understand the scientific basis of natural resource management through lectures, seminars, practical and field-based courses, both in the UK and overseas.

As a Sustainable Management of Natural Resources student you will:

  • develop a broad understanding of the physical, social and economic aspects of sustainable resource management;
  • develop in-depth expertise in the area of your MSc dissertation.

Specialists in this area are increasingly sought after by the private sector, international non-governmental organisations and government departments. The MSc can also be an ideal basis for pursuing a research career through a PhD later on.

World Class FacilitiesExperiment in a tent

Students have access to state-of-the-art Physical Geography instrumentation. There are separate laboratories for environmental, molecular stable isotope and palaeoecological research that can be used to reconstruct past climates and environments, the preparation of thin sections, hardware modelling using rainfall simulation and flume channels as well as a large, general-purpose laboratory that recently been completely refurbished.

Additional resources include an Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer, a Scanning Electron Microscope, a cold store, a Coulter Laser Diffraction particle size analyser, differential GPS and a wide range of field equipment. A new eddy covariance flux tower was purchased recently to measure carbon, energy and water fluxes between vegetation and the atmosphere.

The department has installed suites of PCs, LINUX work-stations and Virtual Reality Equipment (including a theatre) in several newly refurbished computing laboratories as a result of securing £3.9 million from HEFCE to house a Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL) on the subject of spatial literacy and spatial thinking.

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