Environmental Management MSc

Compulsory

• ES5701 - Strategic Sustainable Development
  The main aim is to learn about core concepts of 'strategic sustainable development' (SSD), including a thorough understanding of a structured planning and decision making model for application to real world issues known as the Framework for Strategic Sustainable Development (FSSD).
• ES5702 - Climate Change and Planetary Health
  Planetary health is a new framework that seeks to unite the traditional distinctions between human health, societal well-being, and ecological integrity. This module identifies the interrelationships between human health and the state of natural systems on which it depends.
• ES5600 - Environmental Management and Legislation
  This module enables students to understand the key management principles necessary for the successful implementation of sound environmental management practice, to understand the environmental, methodological and technological and legislative issues in environmental management, and to understand the main environmental legislation and policy at the level of the European Union as well as internationally.
• ES5700 - Research and Analytical Skills
  This module aims to develop professional, research and critical skills necessary to support higher learning and an integrative approach to problem solving, necessary for success in careers in a variety of disciplines and in an academic environment. It aims for students to become familiar with, and critically reflect on, methods and techniques for data gathering and knowledge development (experimental design concepts), including approaches to problem formulation, literature searches, and systematic review methodology.
• ES5500 - Dissertation
  The dissertation allows students to undertake an in-depth study of a topic, using primary or secondary data sources, that is of relevance to the modular block, and to develop an integrated, and where appropriate interdisciplinary, understanding of the topic chosen.
• ES5604 - Portfolio
  The main aim of this modular block is to provide the students with hands-on experience of applying the tools and techniques learnt within the MSc and to spend a six-month Professional Development period the purpose of which is to help launch the students into their environmental sector career.

Optional

• ES5601 - Chemical Risk Assessment and Management
  This module aims to develop an understanding about the ways in which toxicity data are used to anticipate risks to human health and wildlife that stem from exposure to chemical substances, to distinguish between reversible and irreversible toxic effects and to become familiar with the various approaches that exist in regulatory and risk assessment practice for dealing with such effects, and to become proficient in hazard, exposure and risk assessment for chemical entities in human and ecological toxicology.
• ES5603 - Clean Technology and the Environment
  This module is designed to provide knowledge and understanding to learners on how to develop clean technologies with an emphasis on those industrial and utility processes that enhance sustainable resource use and minimise pollution during resource extraction, processing and manufacture.
• ES5602 - Environmental Pollution and Monitoring
  During the module, students will study fundamental scientific aspects of environmental pollution with an emphasis on sources, pathways and receptors and technical approaches to controlling exposure. You'll also study the environmental and technological issues in the management and control of water, air and land pollution. You'll learn the key aspects of sampling techniques in acquiring representative samples of air, soil and water for environmental monitoring and the key analytical techniques and develop the practical skills in monitoring of environmental pollution. Finally, you'll study the practical methods for the investigation of air, soil and water quality.