Environmental Science and Management

Environmental science and management as a dual degree addresses the disconnect between understanding environmental problems and knowing what to do about them. Pure environmental science is excellent at characterising threats: habitat loss, water pollution, climate change and biodiversity decline all require scientific knowledge to identify, measure and model. Management brings in the organisational, economic and policy tools needed to actually respond to those threats, whether through business strategy, regulation, conservation planning or sustainable development practice.

Studying both together produces graduates who can move between the two, understanding environmental problems in their scientific depth while also being capable of managing responses to them.

At the University of Portsmouth, this four-year dual degree programme takes environmental issues such as habitat loss, water pollution and climate change as its central concern, as the university's own description frames it, treating them as the serious threats to life on Earth that they are. The degree includes a sandwich year, a year abroad and work placements, providing structured routes to develop professional experience and international perspective in both the scientific and management dimensions of the programme. You will study ecology, environmental monitoring, climate science, pollution and remediation alongside environmental management, sustainability strategy, environmental law and policy, and the tools for environmental impact assessment.

The combination is particularly relevant to a career landscape in which environmental expertise is increasingly required not just in specialist environmental consultancies but across every sector as organisations respond to regulatory, investor and public pressure to manage their environmental impacts.

Graduates go on to careers in environmental consultancy, sustainability management, conservation, government environment agencies, renewable energy, corporate sustainability roles, research and policy. Further study at masters level in environmental management, sustainability or related fields is also a common route.