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King's College London - Faculty of Social Science & Public Policy MSc in Environment, Politics and Development
King's College London - Faculty of Social Science & Public Policy

MSc in Environment, Politics and Development

London, United Kingdom

1 up to 2 Years

English

Full time, Part time

09 Mar 2025*

Sep 2025

GBP 31,600 / per year **

On-Campus

* first application deadline

** International students | UK students: £14,500 per year

Introduction

Our Environment, Politics and Development MSc programme provides an advanced theoretical understanding of the relationship between development problems and environmental issues. You will explore these relationships from the perspectives of political ecology, development geography and environmental governance. To illustrate these relationships, we use relevant case studies drawn from across the globe.

Key benefits

  • Learn and interact with academic staff that have first-hand experience with development problems and environmental issues in contexts from around the globe
  • Appreciate critically the distinct disciplinary approaches to a dynamic and contested body of knowledge on development, politics and the environment
  • Develop awareness of contemporary development issues, problems and policies through engagement with development theory
  • Enhance understanding of framing and problem-solving challenges at the interface of environment and development with the learning of political theory, political science and political ecology theories and environmental justice lenses
  • Gain critical analytical skills to uncover reciprocal relationships between changing natural environments and dynamic livelihood strategies, or the nature of power, difference and inequality within economic, social, physical and cultural environments
  • Develop an interdisciplinary understanding of how the human and physical world is revealed through representations of space, place and landscape
  • Access opportunities to carry out original fieldwork either in the UK or overseas for your dissertation
  • An optional internship module helps students take their first steps towards employment in a relevant vocational field

Course essentials

Our Environment, Politics and Development MSc offers you a demanding and stimulating programme of study, with an emphasis on developing knowledge and critical understanding as highlighted above. This is complemented by the development of a broad suite of intellectual and practical skills such as:

  • Assessing the relative merits of contrasting theories, explanations and policies
  • Conceptualising problems and identifying possible methods for their solution
  • Critically evaluating evidence
  • Critically analysing qualitative and quantitative data
  • Planning, designing and executing an individual piece of research, including the production of a thesis/report
  • Undertaking effective fieldwork as part of the dissertation, if suitable
  • Employing a variety of social surveys and interpretative methods for analysing information from the human world

Duration: One year full-time, September to September, two years part-time

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