MSc Climate Change, Environmental Processes and Sustainable Futures at Durham University

Explore how we can create sustainable futures in the context of climate-induced changes to environmental processes. Anthropogenic climate change is disrupting global environmental processes, creating intersecting environmental crises that affect both human and non-human life. These challenges include: increased frequency and magnitude of hazardous events such as landslides, floods and droughts; land degradation; melting of polar/mountain glaciers, ice caps and permafrost; and rising sea levels.

Faculty: Faculty of Social Sciences  |  Department: Geography  |  Duration: 1 year full-time, 2 years part-time  |  Study mode: full-time (part-time option)  |  Intake: September 2027  |  Location: Durham, England, United Kingdom

What you will study

Topics covered include investigating the causes of climate change and a range of other complex global crises, how environmental processes respond under different climate states and predicting future behaviour of environmental systems. The modules will also develop advanced data analysis skills, practical skills of leadership, engagement and dissemination and allow you to design and execute an extended piece of research on a particular problem. Compulsory modules include Sustainable Futures, Environmental Data Science, Climate and Environmental Change Past and Present, Anticipating Future Environments, Knowledge for Action and Leadership, Dissertation or Vocational Dissertation.

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