Environment suite – specialisations
What's your special field of interest? At the OEP, you can choose one of our 11 named specialisations or tailor your own.
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Climate Change
Arguably the biggest environmental challenge facing the globe, climate change mitigation and adaptation require a multidisciplinary understanding of the issues affecting the climate.
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Conservation and Restoration
Biodiversity loss is one of the key environmental challenges globally. In this stream, you'll learn strategies for conserving and restoring the natural world.
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Development
Understanding the complex relationship between development processes and the natural environment in urban and rural contexts is crucial to sustainable societies.
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Education and Social Change
Creating sustainable societies depends on fostering social change.
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Energy Efficiency Modelling and Implementation
Understanding how to implement energy efficient measures in buildings is key to managing energy security, climate change and ensuring sustainable practices.
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Environment and Public Health
Understanding the intersection between health and the environment is essential as clean air, fresh water, a safe climate, food security and biodiversity -- our life support system – become increasingly stressed.
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Environmental Management and Science
An interdisciplinary perspective on how science can help understand and address environmental management problems.
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Governance, Policy and Markets
Effectively communicating positive change through regulation, better governance and the media is critical in shaping our environmental future.
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Integrated Water Catchment Management
Water catchments are under increasing threat due to climate change and fluctuating weather conditions and professionals with skills in their management are in high demand.
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Sustainable Cities, Sustainable Regions
Understanding the complex relationships between cities and the agricultural and natural environments on which they depend.
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Waste Management
Waste is more than what people throw in the bin. There are numerous waste streams that can have a damaging environmental impact.
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Tailored Specialisation
Passionate about a specific interdisciplinary niche? Design a study plan to fit your interests
Subject clusters
Alongside specialisations, we've packaged groups of subjects with related learning outcomes that can help you:
- Identify elective subjects that will help you develop specific professional skills
- Identify elective subjects that will help you build knowledge in an area that is not the specific focus of any specialisation
