The Climate System
You will consider the climate system and the Earth’s systems that affect atmospheric and climate processes, including atmospheric composition, circulation and weather systems, along with important geochemical cycles including the carbon cycle.

Resources and Materials
You will study our key natural resources, including minerals, soils, and water, along with developing ideas in renewable resources . It will include their use, sustainability, re-use/recycling, disposal and the concepts of a circular economy.

Principles of Ecology
You will study population and community ecology, including population dynamics, strategies and habitat structure, food webs, ecological successions, and environmental controls. There will also be field and laboratory work, introducing practical identification skills.

Impacts on the Environment
You will study human activity impacts on natural systems. This will include landscape change, extinctions, resource extraction and exploitation. It will consider pollutants and contamination, including water pollution and microplastics, along with health impacts.

The Sustainable Society
You will consider the concepts and challenges of integrating environmental, social and economic interests from the global to the local scale, with the organisations and policies responsible for the delivery of sustainable development.

Environmental Skills Development
Develop your skills and experience in the field, with environmental site assessments and environmental impact assessments. Consider data generation and use research methodologies along with Geographical Information Systems to visualise the data. 

Climate Change
You will use a range of records of climate change to consider their natural and human-induced causes and their consequences at different scales. Then you will model future climate changes and consider impacts.

Energy Systems
You will consider energy supply and demand to investigate non-renewable and renewable energy technologies, resource assessment and utilisation, along with environmental impacts, including for solar, wind, wave, tidal, biomass and geothermal sources.

Ecological Consultancy
Use a range of contemporary industry skills and techniques for ecological surveys, assessments, and recommendations. Learn how to assess species, habitat and landscape condition and consider biodiversity action plans and environmental policy.

Environmental Contaminants
You will be trained in contaminated land assessment, including stages of site assessment, characterisation of pollutant sources, sampling strategies and laboratory analytical methods. You will also assess various remediation strategies to manage contaminated environments. 

Global Production and Consumption
You will examine the centrality of consumption to everyday life and how it connects people and places across the world economically, socially, culturally, and politically in order to consider environmental impacts and future sustainability.

Participatory Project Work
You will be involved in designing and implementing collaborative environmental sustainability projects with community groups, industrial or organisation partners. It will develop your project management, teamwork, and leadership skills.

Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation
You will consider risk management and resilience strategies to reduce the impacts of future climate change through holistic adaptation and mitigation strategies in a range of natural environments and human sectors. 

Resources for the Future
You will consider strategies for a sustainable low-carbon future and the material needs for future sustainability, including recycling and renewable materials and strategies to improve waste management.

Global Ecological Challenges
You will consider approaches to managing landscapes and species in response to global changes, and use the ecological monitoring of species and biological communities to identify research needs for future-proofing against projected ecological changes. 

Environmental Forensics
Through project work you will have training in gathering and managing data, including for environmental legal investigations. It will include aspects of law, crime scene sampling, lab analysis and methods for evidence reporting.

Politics of the Environment
You will explore the role and influence of the environmental movements, protests and campaign organisations, NGOs, governments, citizens and society in representing, developing and planning sustainable environments for the future.

Independent Project
Your research project will come from independent field- or lab-based research or from a relevant placement. You will develop a critical, in-depth analysis for an area of the course that most interests you.