Local Environmental Change and Sustainable Cities

You will analyse and reflect on sustainability transformations in cities and regions around the world, with regard to topics such as waste, energy, water, transportation and climate change.

The Master's specialisation in Local Environmental Change and Sustainable Cities focuses on the local level of sustainability transformations. You'll be introduced to the latest scientific insights, which will be illustrated with numerous examples of how cities and regions all over the world tackle these problems. A broad scope of environmental issues will be addressed, as well as existing measures and instruments. Water management, renewable energy, community food systems and green roofs are just a small sample of what you can expect to encounter.

You'll learn about the latest results in environmental research and how these can be converted in concrete policy plans to bring about the change needed. In this, it's crucial that you understand how policy making and legislation works, as well as have some insight into human behaviour. For a plan to work, the people and businesses in the city need to collaborate. Environmental and behavioural psychology will therefore be addressed in various courses within this specialisation too.

The Master's in Local Environmental Change and Sustainable Cities is a specialisation of the Master's programme Environment and Society Studies.