Environmental Systems Sciences with a focus on Economics

The Master’s Degree Programme in Environmental Systems Sciences - Economics enhances and deepens the students’ knowledge of economics and systems sciences as well as their interdisciplinary knowledge and skills. In particular, students acquire knowledge of theories of environmental economics and resource economics, discussing topics that range from global change, climate change and politics, and the connection between technical and economical progress, sustainability and resource economics, to environmental and foreign trade. Furthermore, students acquire methodical knowledge of applied environmental economics (quantitative analytical tools for processing empirical questions about environmental and climate policies). This programme includes the systems sciences, and especially methods to integrate systems, assess and model sustainable development, and reduce hazards and improve living conditions in the man-environment system. Independently combinable, specialized elective courses offer students the opportunity to individualize and specialize their qualification profile. Students are able to design their own environmentally oriented elective subjects. This enables them to individualize their qualification profile, while havin the opportunity to work in an interdisciplinary team during an internship, where they are faced with real-world problems, encourages them to apply the acquired competences to concrete and ongoing problems.

Graduates of the Master’s Degree Programme in Environmental Systems Sciences - Economics will be experts in the field of economics and - at the same time - familiar with problems related to environmental and resource economics. Their interdisciplinary education will enable them to deal with complex systems, to translate these into models and to assess their structure and dynamics. They will be able to expand on and to apply sustainable courses of action.