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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Development

    Understanding the complex relationship between development processes and the natural environment in urban and rural contexts is crucial to sustainable societies.

  • Education and Social Change

    Creating sustainable societies depends on fostering social change.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Environmental Management and Science

    An interdisciplinary perspective on how science can help understand and address environmental management problems.

  • Governance, Policy and Markets

    Effectively communicating positive change through regulation, better governance and the media is critical in shaping our environmental future.

  • 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.

  • Sustainable Cities, Sustainable Regions

    Understanding the complex relationships between cities and the agricultural and natural environments on which they depend.

  • Waste Management

    Waste is more than what people throw in the bin. There are numerous waste streams that can have a damaging environmental impact.

  • 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

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Subject Clusters