UCL: 《环境与可持续发展》理学硕士



Environment and Sustainable Development MSc
环境与可持续发展理学硕士



London, Bloomsbury

This programme examines the critical relations between development planning and socio-environmental challenges in urban areas of the Global South. It challenges mainstream approaches to development, focusing on strategic pathways to address socio-environmental injustices and enhance collective capacities to act. Many of our graduates go on to help shape future sustainable development agendas in local government, international agencies and civil society organisations.
该计划研究了全球南方城市地区发展规划与社会环境挑战之间的关键关系。 它对发展的主流方法提出了挑战,侧重于解决社会环境不公正和增强集体行动能力的战略途径。 我们的许多毕业生继续帮助地方政府、国际机构和民间社会组织制定未来的可持续发展议程。

Applications accepted
All applicants: 18 Oct 2021 – 31 Mar 2022

Entry requirements

The normal minimum qualifications are an upper second-class Bachelor's degree in a relevant subject from a UK university or an overseas qualification of an equivalent standard; and a demonstrated interest in the subject matter of the programme. A minimum of six months work experience is also recommended. Candidates who do not meet the above requirements may be considered if they are able to demonstrate substantial relevant senior-level professional experience and an ability to engage academically with the subject matter of the programme.

正常的最低学历是: 英国大学相关学科的二等高级学士学位或同等标准的海外学历; 对课程主题表现出浓厚的兴趣。 还建议至少有六个月的工作经验。 不符合上述要求的候选人,如果他们能够展示出丰富的相关高级专业经验以及在学术上参与课程主题的能力,则可以考虑。

International applicants can find out the equivalent qualification for their country by selecting from the list below. Please note that the equivalency will correspond to the broad UK degree classification stated on this page (e.g. upper second-class). Where a specific overall percentage is required in the UK qualification, the international equivalency will be higher than that stated below. Please contact Graduate Admissions should you require further advice.
国际申请者可以通过从下面的列表中选择来找到他们国家的同等资格。 请注意,等效将对应于本页所述的广泛的英国学位分类(例如二等上等)。 如果英国资格要求特定的总体百分比,则国际等效将高于以下所述。 如果您需要进一步的建议,请联系研究生招生部。

About this degree

This programme examines the critical relations between development planning and socio-environmental challenges in urban areas of the Global South. It challenges mainstream approaches to development, focusing on strategic pathways to address socio-environmental injustices and enhance collective capacities to act. Many of our graduates go on to help shape future sustainable development agendas in local government, international agencies and civil society organisations.
计划研究了全球南方城市地区发展规划与社会环境挑战之间的关键关系。 它对发展的主流方法提出了挑战,侧重于解决社会环境不公正和增强集体行动能力的战略途径。 我们的许多毕业生继续帮助地方政府、国际机构和民间社会组织制定未来的可持续发展议程。

Who this course is for 本课程适用于谁

This interdisciplinary programme attracts participants from a wide variety of fields including anthropologists, economists, geographers and natural scientists, as well as planners, architects and engineers. 
这个跨学科项目吸引了来自广泛领域的参与者,包括人类学家、经济学家、地理学家和自然科学家,以及规划师、建筑师和工程师。

What this course will give you

Faced with the most severe environmental crisis in human history, with unprecedented environmental degradation, rapid urbanisation and the production and reproduction of inequalities, it becomes ever more pressing to aquire the capacities for effective action to safeguard nature and current and future generations. 
面对人类历史上最严重的环境危机,前所未有的环境退化、快速的城市化进程以及不平等的产生和再生产,获取有效行动保护自然和今世后代的能力变得越来越紧迫。

This programme offers an in-depth theoretical and practical understanding of socio-environmental change, equipping graduates with the skills required to face complex global challenges in urban regions while being sensitive to local contexts and remaining flexible in fast changing realities.
该计划提供对社会环境变化的深入理论和实践理解,使毕业生具备应对城市地区复杂的全球挑战所需的技能,同时对当地环境敏感并在快速变化的现实中保持灵活性。

For the last 60 years the Development Planning Unit at UCL has championed forms of development planning that promote socially just and sustainable development in the context of rapid urbanisation in Asia, Africa and Latin America. The programme provides opportunities to interact with leading thinkers in development planning and students will join a community of practice with an international network of researchers and practitioners.
在过去的 60 年中,伦敦大学学院的发展规划部门一直倡导在亚洲、非洲和拉丁美洲快速城市化的背景下促进社会公正和可持续发展的发展规划形式。该计划提供了与发展规划方面的领先思想家互动的机会,学生将加入一个由研究人员和从业者组成的国际网络的实践社区。

The foundation of your career

The programme equips students with interdisciplinary and transferable skills. It develops reflective and ethical professionals with enhanced capacities as critical thinkers, researchers, team players, leaders, effective project managers and impactful communicators. 
该计划为学生提供跨学科和可转移的技能。 它培养具有批判性思考者、研究人员、团队成员、领导者、有效的项目经理和有影响力的沟通者的能力的反思和道德专业人士。

Our students interact with diverse private and public organisations and join a network of long term partnerships with fellow students, alumni, instructors and partners across the world. They work closely with academic staff concerned with socio-environmentally just and sustainable development and are involved in research, consultancy and development practice, influencing global debates on development such as UNFCCC negotiations, Sustainable Development Goals and UN Habitat III agenda.
我们的学生与各种私人和公共组织互动,并与世界各地的同学、校友、教师和合作伙伴建立长期合作伙伴关系网络。 他们与关注社会环境公正和可持续发展的学术人员密切合作,并参与研究、咨询和发展实践,影响全球关于发展的辩论,如 UNFCCC 谈判、可持续发展目标和联合国人居三议程。

Employability

Most previous graduates of this programme are now engaged in professional activities, ranging from local and national government, consultancy firms and national and international NGOs, to United Nations programmes and international aid agencies all over the world. 
该计划的大多数以前的毕业生现在都从事专业活动,从地方和国家政府、咨询公司以及国家和国际非政府组织到联合国计划和世界各地的国际援助机构。


Examples of organisations where graduates have been employed include: 
毕业生就业的组织示例包括:

  • Public Sector: DEFRA and DfID (UK), Ministerio das Cidades (Brazil) and many other local government organisations 
  • 公共部门:DEFRA 和 DfID(英国)、Ministerio das Cidades(巴西)和许多其他地方政府组织
  • International Agencies and NGOs: UNEP, UNDP, UN-Habitat, JICA, GIZ (former GTZ), InsightShare, Save the Children and WWF 
  • 国际机构和非政府组织:UNEP、UNDP、UN-Habitat、JICA、GIZ(前 GTZ)、InsightShare、Save the Children 和 WWF
  • Think tanks, academic and research organisations: IIED, Stockholm Environment Institute, Resources for Development Center, WaterWise and the Arab Academy for Science, Technology & Maritime Transport 
  • 智囊团、学术和研究机构:IIED、斯德哥尔摩环境研究所、资源发展中心、WaterWise 和阿拉伯科学、技术和海上运输学院
  • Private companies: HappoldConsulting, EcoSecurities, Bloomberg New Energy Finance, Dialogue by Design, and BioRegionalQuintain.
  • 私营公司:HappoldConsulting、EcoSecurities、彭博新能源财经、Dialogue by Design 和 BioRegionalQuintain。
Teaching and learning
教与学

The programme comprises reading, essay writing, critical discussion and project work, facilitated through lectures, seminars, workshops, an overseas practice engagement and discussions with practitioners covering theoretical and practical tasks and case study analysis. Assessment is through coursework, examinations, and the dissertation.
该计划包括阅读、论文写作、批判性讨论和项目工作,通过讲座、研讨会、研讨会、海外实践参与以及与从业者的讨论来促进理论和实践任务以及案例研究分析。评估是通过课程作业、考试和论文进行的。

Modules (Full-time)

Compulsory modules
必修

 Development and Planning Dissertation

 The Political Ecology of Environmental Change

 Urban Environmental Planning and Management in Development

 Environment and Sustainable Development in Practice


Optional modules
选修

 Post Disaster Recovery: Policies, Practices and Alternatives

 Transforming Local Areas: Urban Design for Development

 Building and Urban Design Practice

 Development in Practice

 Neo-Structuralism and the Developmental State

 Society and Market: Private Agency for Development

 Land Food and Agriculture

 Critical Ideas of Development: Conceptions and Realities

 Contemporary Approaches to Development Management

 Practice in Urban Economic Development

 Urban Environmental Planning and Management in Development

 Sustainable Infrastructure and Services in Development

 Urban Water and Sanitation, Planning and Politics

 Food and the City

 Urban and Peri-Urban Agriculture: Knowledge Systems in the Global South

 The City and its Relations: Context, Institutions and Actors in Urban Development Planning

 Urban Development Policy, Planning and Management: Strategic Action in Theory and Practice

 Practice in Urban Development Planning

 Transport Equity and Urban Mobility

 Social Policy and Citizenship

 Social Development in Practice

 An Introduction to Public Economics and Public Policy

 Urban Health and Development Planning Strategies 1

 Health, Social Justice and the City 2


Please note that the list of modules given here is indicative. This information is published a long time in advance of enrolment and module content and availability is subject to change.
请注意,此处给出的模块列表仅供参考。此信息在注册和模块内容之前很长时间发布,可用性可能会发生变化。

Students undertake modules to the value of 180 credits. Upon successful completion of 180 credits, you will be awarded an MSc in Environment and Sustainable Development.
学生承担价值 180 学分的模块。成功完成 180 个学分后,您将获得环境与可持续发展理学硕士学位。

Fieldwork
实地考察

The overseas practice engagement component in Term 3 provides an opportunity to test theories and concepts discussed in the porgramme's core modules, and to gain practical experience in tackling socio-environmental justices in collaboration with key actors in the cities where we work.
第三学期的海外实践参与部分提供了一个机会,可以测试课程核心模块中讨论的理论和概念,并获得与我们工作所在城市的主要参与者合作解决社会环境正义问题的实践经验。

Accessibility
可访问性

Details of the accessibility of UCL buildings can be obtained from AccessAble accessable.co.uk. Further information can also be obtained from the UCL Student Support & Wellbeing team.
可以从 AccessAble accessable.co.uk 获得有关 UCL 建筑物可访问性的详细信息。更多信息也可以从 UCL 学生支持与福利团队获得。

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