Master of Science - Environment Politics and Development (PGTF0039)
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Last updated: 17/04/2025
About Master of Science - Environment Politics and Development (PGTF0039)
Why are we facing a planetary ecological crisis? And what can we do to solve the world’s major socio-ecological problems?
The MSc Environment, Politics and Development programme addresses these pressing questions through a combination of critical political ecology and interdisciplinary approaches. The programme is taught by leading political ecologists who have research and practitioner experience at various scales and locations across the Global South.
The programme's teaching engages with the most important global thinkers and considers power structures and relations along the lines of race, gender, class and caste in global political ecology. The course offers a critical analysis of key issues including extractivism, water, forestry, climate, fisheries, agricultural production, biodiversity, and energy transition.
Perhaps most importantly, students will analyse and assess proposed solutions to ecological crises, including loss and damage compensation, market-based solutions, degrowth, green new deals, and climate reparations.
The masters asks important questions including:
- How can we analyse structural socio-ecological injustice between the Global South and North?
- Will systemic change proposals like Green New Deals, Degrowth, and Climate Reparations work for the most marginalised?
- How does the environment intersect with global poverty, wealth and questions of inequality?
- Can Carbon trading offer a solution to managing climate change?
- How do ‘race’ and racism influence the climate crisis?
- How does access to water intersect with dynamics of wealth and poverty?
- Is wildlife conservation implicated in social injustices?
- What role can and do environmental movements play in development?
- How can we organise the global economy in a just and sustainable way?
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