As cities continue to grow rapidly around the world, challenges related to sustainability, climate change, resource use, and quality of life are becoming more urgent. This development leads to environmental challenges such as growing traffic, increasing waste emissions, deteriorating air and water quality, and growth in energy and resource consumption. This Master’s explores sustainable management of the urban environment including the urban periphery with a solution oriented mentality. Are you ready to shape the sustainable cities of the future?
What will you study during this Master’s?
During this Master’s programme you will gain in-depth knowledge of urban environments, their infrastructure, and sustainable management solutions. Urban Environmental Management focuses on understanding cities and their rural surroundings so you can manage them sustainably. You will learn how to analyse urban systems and develop strategies that promote sustainability, resilience, and liveability in cities worldwide.
Do you want to develop strategies that balance environmental, social, political, and economic factors in urban planning? You will gain in-depth knowledge of urban environments, their infrastructure, and sustainable management solutions. This is done by applying cross-disciplinary theories and tools to assess and solve environmental challenges. You will develop and apply skills to engage stakeholders and communicate solutions effectively. After following this programme you can conduct independent research and create innovative approaches to improve urban sustainability.
Why this programme?
This programme provides an interdisciplinary outlook on urban challenges like spatial planning, environmental health and waste management in cities across the world.
The master programme is solution-oriented, during the master programme there are a lot of hands-on experiences. In living labs, simulation exercises, field trips, and individual research projects you improve you technical and managerial skills.
This master’s unites four coherent perspectives on the urban environment: Urban Planning, Urban Governance, Urban Environmental Quality and Health, and Urban Engineering.
Wageningen University & Research is well known for its leading role in sustainability which gives excellent national and international career perspectives in consultancy, entrepreneurship, and research.
