Environment and Sustainable Development

Course description

This multi-disciplinary programme is designed if you are intending to pursue career in environmental project management. It will give you the tools to apply economic analysis to a range of environmental management problems with a focus on developing countries. You will gain a scientific perspective on how environmental and resource constraints impact upon development.

**WHY THIS PROGRAMME**

- Environment & Sustainable Development will provide you with a good understanding of:

The key issues confronting economies in attempting to reconcile economic growth with environmental and ecological constraints

The relationship between environment and the economic system with an emphasis on environmental valuation, cost-benefit analysis, market and policy failure, trade and the environment, the economics of pollution control and climate change

The role of international environmental agreements

Possible policy responses to other developmental issues such as human capital, international trade and market liberalisation

- This programme provides you with the empirical tools, data, and software training that will enable you to do research in environment and economic development and help prepare for your dissertation.

- You will have access to all conferences and seminars hosted by the Glasgow Centre for International Development. This means you will be exposed to interdisciplinary research and approaches to development in the fields of medicine, veterinary medicine, environmental management, sustainability, or education.

- The Adam Smith Business School celebrates the legacy of Adam Smith by developing enlightened, enterprising and engaged graduates and internationally-recognised research with real social impact.

- Take advantage of our individualised skills development programme, which will ensure you balance academic theory with crucial employability skills to help you maximise your potential and achieve your career goals.

- Adam Smith Business School is triple accredited.

**PROGRAMME STRUCTURE**

You will take four core and two optional courses and complete a substantial independent piece of work, normally in the form of a dissertation. A pre-sessional refresher course in economics is also available for those who wish to revise their economics. This non-credit bearing course takes place during induction week.

**Core Courses**
ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS
UNDERSTANDING DEVELOPMENT: A MULTIDISCIPLINARY APPROACH
SUSTAINABILITY AND GREEN FINANCE
THEORY AND PRINCIPLES OF SUSTAINABILITY
DISSERTATION GCDS

**Optional Courses may include:**

AID AND DEVELOPMENT
BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS:THEORY AND APPLICATIONS
DEVELOPMENT POLICY
THE ECONOMICS OF INEQUALITY AND DEPRIVATION
FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS AND MARKETS IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT AND DEVELOPMENT
GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT
POLICIES FOR SUSTAINABILITY AND DEVELOPMENT

Subjects

• Environmental studies
• Development studies
• Social sciences
• Social studies