This masters provides you with high-quality interdisciplinary training designed to give you the skills, experience and knowledge prospective employers want. You will focus on the issues where the need for sustainable economic development and environmental conservation meet.

To help you understand the many perspectives on these issues, this course is led by the Sustainability Research Institute, bringing together academic expertise from the School of Earth and Environment, School of Politics and International Studies and the practitioner community.

Sustainable economic development and environmental management are two key challenges facing the world today. This course enables you to investigate the issues associated with achieving development that is environmentally, socially and economically sustainable. You will gain the knowledge, skills and practical experience which enable you to contribute towards achieving solutions in this topical field.

The course is ideal if you would like to develop or continue a career in environment and/or development practice, policy, training or research. Preparing you for work in both the public and private sectors, and within local, national and international institutions. Alternatively, you could pursue a research career or go on to a PhD.

Course highlights

You have a large degree of flexibility Ð meaning you can choose the modules you take, enabling you to develop your degree in line with your interests and ambitions.

Gain both theoretical and practical experience Ð our teaching draws on specialist knowledge from practitioner and research communities covering both the natural and social sciences.

Carry out a wide range of fieldwork, from a FREE field course to East Yorkshire, to a further afield trip to Tanzania.

Attend excellent research seminar series run by the School of Earth and Environment, School of Politics and International Studies, plus those organised in LeedsÕ Biology and Geography departments.