Environmental Change and Global Sustainability The University of Milan

Overview

Environmental change plays a central role in modern societies, to the point that a sustainable management of the environment currently represents one of the most important open challenges for humanity. 

Addressing this challenge requires a multidisciplinary approach that overcomes the usual boundaries of scientific disciplines. In this context, the Master program in Environmental Change and Global Sustainability from The University of Milan provides advanced expertise in the hard- and life-science components of environmental studies as well as in their economic- and social-science components. 

The general goal is to train students to tackle environmental change and sustainability in a multidisciplinary perspective. Students will therefore be provided with both a solid knowledge of the dynamics of the different components of the environment and a deep understanding of the tools required to promote its sustainable management and protection.

Career

The main peculiar quality of ECGS graduates is their ability to tackle environmental change and sustainability in a multidisciplinary perspective. This ability benefits of advanced expertise in the hard- and life-science components of environmental studies as well as in their economic- and social-science components. In this context, five professional profiles ECGS graduates can achieve are listed below:

• Environmental manager in agro-food, energy and green economy companies as well as in other companies in the industrial and service sectors;

• Environmental specialist in the public administration as well as in local governments;

• Environmental specialist in supra and international bodies as well as in national and international non-governmental organizations.

• Specialist in environmental impact studies and strategic environmental assessments;

• Specialist in environmental analysis and monitoring.

• Further employment opportunities of ECGS graduates concern research positions at universities and research institutions as well as teaching at the secondary school level.