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Carbon: Science, Society & Change (Not running for 2012 entry)
|MSc
|Part Time, Full Time
| Admissions status: Closed
Carbon Science Society and Change examines how the carbon cycle functions and explores both natural and human influences. Investigate how strategies for adjustment can range from behavioural change and conservation, market based approaches or environmental management.
Learn the scientific basis and the environmental consequences of steps taken.
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KEY BENEFITS
- To expose students to current research in carbon science, conservation, sequestration and mitigation strategies and to help develop skills to critically evaluate this research mindful of the societal implications of this science.
- To promote initiative and the exercise of independent critical judgment in identifying, analysing and solving problems at an advanced level.
- To develop relevant transferable skills embedded in the learning and assessment schemes in the programme.
- To enable those with first degrees in a range of disciplines – geography, environmental sciences, physics, engineering etc to focus on specific issues relating to the human, biological and physical influences on the carbon cycle.
- To provide an understanding of the scientific evidence needed for policy makers and society to respond to the problems associated with climate change caused by rising atmospheric carbon compounds.
KEY FACTS
Programme leader/s
Dr Marcus Köhler
Awarding institution
King's College London
Credit value (UK/ECTS equivalent)
UK 180/ECTS 90
Duration
One year FT, two years PT, September to September.
Location
Strand Campus.
Student destinations
The MSc is designed to prepare students for careers in environmental change research, consultancy and/or policy development. It provides interdisciplinary research training for those going onto a PhD in environmental and/or Earth system science within King's or elsewhere, and students entering the job market immediately after graduation are expected to be highly marketable in three main areas; local and national governmental and non-governmental agencies (eg Environment Agency; County Councils; Nature Conservancies); environmental consultancies and businesses (eg Environmental Informatics providers; Environmental Businesses - including Carbon Trading; Insurance; Waste Management and Energy Industries), and policy development organisations (eg government departments such as Defra). The Seminars in Environmental Research, Management and Policy module offers students the chance to hear and meet practitioners in many of these key areas.
Year of entry 2012
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