Sustainable Development, MA (Hons)

Sustainable development addresses the complex challenges of reducing global inequalities while mitigating threats to planetary systems from industrial production and consumption. It prompts critical questions about its current state, historical evolution, and potential futures. Drawing from social sciences, this programme explores the underlying social, political, economic, technological, and cultural causes of contemporary issues, fostering adaptation for a more sustainable future. Key focuses include environmental care for climate stability, biodiversity, and natural resource renewal, alongside examining societal organization, environmental impacts, human-nature relationships, intergenerational equity, development patterns, and opportunities for change. Topics covered encompass social and environmental justice, sustainable consumption, economic structures, food systems, energy policies, and governance.This multidisciplinary programme integrates core courses in sustainable development with those from another disciplinary pathway, offering optional courses to enhance learning. Primarily rooted in social sciences, it also provides non-mandatory options for natural science perspectives on sustainable development.