MA Degree Programme


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Level 4


Climate Change: Societal and Organisational Responses


Climate change is seen as the most important phenomenon currently to affect our planet and runaway global warming threatens the continued existence of human life on the earth. The module examines the science, impacts and responses to climate change of societies and organisations around the globe. Concepts such as mitigation, adaptation, transition, resilience and behaviour- change will all be explored. A number of practitioner-inputs will also be provided.


Environmental Resource Management


This module provides students with a broad understanding of the theory of resource use and abuse and considers the practical application of resource management principles.


Dissertation


This module allows students to undertake an extended study (8,000 to 10,000 words) of a topic or problem which has relevance to the study of environmental sustainability. This process will involve both theoretical and empirical knowledge and argument.


Choose 2 from the following approved module options:


Community Governance


This option critically examines key aspects of theory and practice associated with community governance, community based planning and neighbourhood management.


Coastal and Estuarine Geoscience


This option examines coastal and estuarine environments: relationships between coastal and estuarine processes and pollution, physical and geomorphological processes of coastal and estuarine environments and geophysical investigations of the nearshore zone.


Graduate Profile


After graduating with a 2:1 Honours degree, Keir McAndrew (29) joined the Scottish Environment Agency’s Graduate Training Programme. This comprised two years of ‘on-the-job’ training across Scotland, and provided practical experience of producing environmental permits for activities ranging from sewage treatment works to large chemical plants, undertaking inspections of authorised activities, modelling discharges to the environment, laboratory analysis and ecotoxicology and consultation with a wide range of public and private stakeholders. During this time he was posted to offices across Scotland and dealt with discharges to air, land and water.


Upon completion of the Graduate Training Programme he joined SEPA’s Air Policy Unit as part of the Strategic Planning Directorate, and specialised in the implementation of the Pollution Prevention and Control (Scotland) Regulations (PPC) in Scotland. He then undertook a 12 month secondment to SEPA’s Futures Department which involved the development of Environmental Issue Prioritisation measures to determine the future direction of the Agency, the long term environmental strategy and the development of guidance on topics such as the UK’s Energy White Paper and Wind Farm development in Scotland.


He returned to SEPA’s Air Policy Unit and led on policy development with regard to the UK’s Air Quality Strategy in Scotland and the associated Local Air Quality Management regime. More recently he has assumed the role of policy lead for PPC in Scotland, and this involves close collaboration with relevant stakeholders including the Scottish Government, Environment Agency and Environment and Heritage.


Keir is currently seconded to the European Commission as a national expert helping detail the new Directive on Industrial Emissions.


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