Environment and Resource Management

The one-year Master program Environment and Resource Management (ERM) is designed to train the next generation of decision-makers to work on the most pressing sustainability challenges of our time. Students learn to analyze problems and design solutions for challenges including climate change, biodiversity loss, water scarcity and drought, and food security, among others. The program is highly international and is open for students from all disciplinary backgrounds, training them to apply their disciplinary knowledge in an multidisciplinary environment, often in teams. Students will also be familiarized with key disciplines for studying sustainability and learn to integrate different bodies of knowledge in a problem-oriented manner. Students can determine their own focus by choosing a specialization and further establish their own niche through the Master’s thesis. The five specializations have been crafted to cover important contemporary sustainability challenges and include: Energy and Climate, Global Food Challenges, Global Water Challenges, Ecosystems Services and Biodiversity, and Global Sustainable Futures.