Master's Program - Environmental Communication and Management

Practical work in the field of natural resource management and sustainable development also involves communication. How can we manage conflicting interests between people and organizations?

Communication plays an important role in the facilitation of sustainable management of natural resources and environmental issues. In the ECM program, we learn how to understand communication processes, to create communicative strategies for environmental changes, organize collective action and mediate in environmental conflicts in a constructive way.

To work in practice with environmental change and sustainable development mean to work with people and communication. Communication is involved in all environmental issues: industries’ adaptation of environmental technology, governmental protection of wildlife, international governmental agreements etc. Companies, governmental agencies, and environmental organizations are demanding people with professional skills in environmental communication. To facilitate sustainable development, society needs to know about e.g. plants, soils and water. But that is not enough. We also need to know how to coordinate different resource users, how to motivate consumers to adopt an environmental technology, and how to manage environmental conflicts.... [-]