Sustainability Science - Study Courses

Study Courses

In recent years, there have been set up more and more study courses that are directly addressing the issues of sustainability science and global change:

• Master's degree at the IATEUR - Urban, Regional Planning and Sustainability Science Institute, Reims University, France
• M.Sc. "Sustainability Science and Policy" at Maastricht University - ICIS, The Netherlands
• MS/MBA Erb Institute for Sustainable Enterprise (multiple sub specialties) at the University of Michigan, USA
• M.Sc. "Global Change Ecology" at the University of Bayreuth, Germany
• M.Sc. "Global Change Management" at the University of Applied Sciences Eberswalde, Germany
• M.Sc. "Environmental Studies and Sustainability Science" at the University of Lund, Sweden
• "Global Change Ecology" at the University of California, Irvine, USA
• "Master of Development Practice Degree Program" at the University of Minnesota, USA
• "Graduate Program in Sustainability Science" at the University of Tokyo, Japan
• "Lund University's International Master's Programme in Environmental Studies and Sustainability Science" at Lund University, Sweden.
• "Master`s Degree in Creative Sustainability" at Aalto University, Finland
• "Sustainability Specialization" at Michigan State University, USA
• M.Sc./Ph.D "Building Science and Sustainability" in the Department of Architecture at the University of California, Berkeley, USA
• M.Sc. Strategic Leadership towards Sustainability at Blekinge Institute of Technology, Karlskrona, Sweden
• Master's in Sustainable Product-Service System Innovation at Blekinge Institute of Technology, Karlskrona, Sweden
• Environmental Science and Policy Program at Clark University, Worcester, MA, USA, offers a graduate seminar "Sustainable Consumption Production."
• MSc Environmental Technology at Imperial College London, UK, offers eight specialist streams in: water, pollution, business, global environmental change & policy, economics & policy, ecological management, environmental analysis & assessment, energy policy.
• M.Sc/M.A/Ph.D in Sustainability Science at School of Sustainability, Arizona State University, Tempe, USA

In 2010 a compendium of basic papers in this new discipline was published by Robert Kates as: Readings in Sustainability Science and Technology - an introduction to the key literature of sustainability science

Recently, numbers of people doing a PhD gather under the title of sustainable sciences purposes. They come from different backgrounds and work around this topic. This sort of work enables the topic to be interdisciplinary and improve the work of PhDs. Here is an example of such gathering : BhIOSS Group (Birmingham Initiative on Sustainable Sciences)