Course Overview
Edinburgh University-s unique Sustainable Development MA programme enables the study of these issues through the prisms of several complementary disciplines including geography, politics, international relations, social anthropology and sociology. Students will focus on social scientific and humanities subjects, but will also receive a non-specialist natural scientific introduction to the topic That interdisciplinary, critical, questioning approach is a key feature of Edinburgh University-s Sustainable Development degree. The University has an outstanding record in research and teaching in the wide range of disciplines (both social and natural sciences) central to the Sustainable Development degree. The aim of the programme is to develop graduates who are able to recognise and respond to the interdisciplinary issues raised by our evolving understanding of sustainable development. Effective conservation efforts in relation to climate stability, forests, oceans, other species, soils and water resources require transformation of inter-human as well as human-nature relationships. The degree thus captures the emerging interdisciplinary nexus between development theory and practice, and the natural and social sciences. This nexus provides the guiding intellectual vision for this programme.
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