Environmental Management (Protected Area / Countryside Management) (MSc) supplementary information

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Learning Objectives

On successful completion of this course, you should be able to:

• outline the key issues - both theoretical and practical - underpinning the countryside resource (history, ecology and species/habitat/site management) and its key actors (state, statutory agencies, NGOs and people/communities)
• discuss the ecology of protected areas and the wider countryside
• consider the needs and behaviour of people (residents, workers, visitors)
• explain the structure and operation of relevant social and political factors, including legislation and policy
• make informed judgements about complex issues involving the inter-relationship between environmental, economic, social and political factors.

Supplementary Information

This is the only postgraduate programme in this subject in the UK.

Several other institutions (Peak District National Park Losehill Hall; Snowdonia National Park Plas Tan-y-Bwlch; Field Studies Council) help provide specialist modules for the MSc.