该计划的重点是理解自然的和人为的过程，这些过程导致了当代环境问题，并有可能改变我们的环境。重点放在重建近期环境变化的技术，当代监测方法以及为预测的未来可能后果提供背景方面。该学位得益于环境科学学院的发展，该学院借鉴了整个学校的员工专业知识。该计划提供了一个固定的结构，以确保该计划涵盖所有关键技能。
The global impacts of climate change are one of the biggest threats facing the world today. Develop your understanding of climate change and the processes which contribute to contemporary environmental problems and threaten to transform our environment. You will gain the skills and techniques to allow you to reconstruct recent environmental change, along with methods of contemporary monitoring and the context for predicted possible future consequences.<br>Through a mix of lectures, independent group study, coursework field work and laboratory work, you will develop your analytical research skills so you’ll be able to to conduct first-class research in the field of environment and climate change.<br>Facilities that you will use during your master’s have recently benefited from substantial investment, meaning you will have access to state-of-the-art facilities and equipment. Studying Environment and Climate Change at master’s level will allow you to draw upon staff expertise from across the School of Environmental Sciences.