Environment profile
The environment profile focuses on the human pressures on, and threats to, ecosystem health.
Study areas
- Environmental planning and management
- Urban water management
- Flood and drought
- Irrigation
- Hydrology and water resources
- Hydraulic engineering
- Surface and groundwater hydrology
- River basin development
- Wetlands
- Aquatic ecosystems
You can focus on how water and nutrients in water bodies come together and create the physical and chemical environment in which aquatic organisms find themselves. Or you can explore the biological diversity of aquatic ecosystems, the effects of multiple stressors on them and the organisms that have to cope with these.
You will learn to measure change and assess the ecological health of aquatic ecosystems. You might then choose to learn about the ecosystem services freshwaters provide and how to model these or how to restore them as part of a basin management cycle, and to couple this knowledge with environmental impact assessment and law.
If you are interested in food systems, you might choose to learn about agricultural systems, and the interplay between food system governance and sustainable food production, which in turn impact habitat conservation and people’s livelihoods.
About the profile
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This is one of five disciplinary profiles you can pair with a thematic track in the MSc Programme in Water and Sustainable Development. Want to know more about this programme and how you can shape it to your interests?