Master in Water, Climate Change, and Sustainability

!This professional course offers a broad overview of global water problems and training. Content unavailable How to watch this video Video disabled icon ### **Content unavailable** This content is not available because your cookie preferences do not allow it. In order to view this content, you will need to allow cookies that: - help with our advertising and marketing - enable useful features Enable cookies Or view the content on Youtube ! Close Become a leader in water science and management with our interdisciplinary MSc, designed to tackle global challenges and open diverse career pathways. certificate Become a water leader Optional modules will give you the broad skill set to become the expert in the room, bringing ~~~~ others together to address water challenges. people Multidisciplinary The interdisciplinary knowledge and skills you’ll   develop will equip you to lead problem-solving efforts on major freshwater problems in any context. globe Aligned with SDGs You’ll get up to speed with the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals and their relevance to global, regional, and local freshwater challenges. notepad Benefit from our research expertise A research dissertation on a bespoke topic co-designed with an expert academic will set you up to understand the complexity and challenges of freshwater problems. mortarboard Seize emerging opportunities Take a major step into the rapidly expanding job market on water, climate change, and sustainability with the confidence of a water leader. Water is fundamental to life on Earth and the functioning of healthy ecosystems and societies. But the world faces significant challenges to sustainable water supplies. Limited usable freshwater, unevenly distributed across the world, in addition to climate-driven floods and droughts, impacts economies, increases conflict potential, and degrades ecosystems, making future water sustainability unpredictable. To address these urgent challenges the world needs graduates with expertise in freshwater problems. This MSc will give you a solid understanding of water in terms of the hydrological cycle, its forcing by climate and climate change, partitioning of water between the surface and subsurface, water availability to and use by ecosystems, and the sustainable management of water-related hazards and water resources. You’ll explore the social context of water problems in terms of environmental sustainability, as well as knowledge of the climate system and the regional expressions of climate change and develop the skills to analyse and quantify sustainability of water resources and hazards, to handle and analyse large datasets that are proliferating across the globe, and to engage with numerical models. The interdisciplinary nature of the programme will open up potential career pathways in academia, development, government, or environmental consultancy. You would be well equipped to address global challenges including those associated with sustainable development goals, as well as national and subnational environmental priorities in countries around the world. Some module combinations are not available due to the carefully constructed programme design.  All options will be managed through guided choice. ### Accreditations - Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Where you'll study