保护与农村发展理学硕士课程探讨了保护与农村发展辩论背后的问题，并提供了实用的方法论工具，致力于保护与农村发展之间的联系。保护与农村发展之间的关系最好被描述为一个不安的联盟：一方面，在防止环境退化方面它们之间存在着实质性的共同点，但另一方面，它们之间常常存在直接冲突。该途径探索了有关保护/农村发展辩论的根本问题，并提供了实用的方法论工具来在两者之间的接口上工作。
Understand the issues we face when conserving the natural habitats and ecosystems upon which human communities depend on, and gain the practical and methodological tools you need to achieve success at the interface between conservation and rural development.<br>Study different natural and social science approaches to conservation through formal academic training and practical field conservation. Benefit from our links with The Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology (DICE), a leading research centre, that develops highly employable graduates within government, NGOs and the private sector.<br>You will gain an interdisciplinary perspective on conservation issues drawing on over 30 years of DICE expertise on what it takes for effective conservation where local communities also rely on natural resource use. You'll have the chance to specialise in managing protected areas, ecotourism and rural development, population and evolutionary biology, and international wildlife trade.