Political Ecology - Degrowth and Environmental Justice Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Overview

This is the renewed 8th edition of the first Master's degrees in the fields of Political Ecology, Degrowth and Environmental justice taught at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. The Master's is co-organized by the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ICTA-UAB) and Research & Degrowth International (R&Di), bringing together the scholarly excellence of ICTA-UAB researchers with hands-on experience in activism and policy-making of R&DI’s networks.

This program is enriched by its Barcelona location, the capital of Catalonia. It is a city and country historically at the forefront of experimentation with the commons, social and solidarity cooperatives and community economies. We have developed close collaborations and partnerships with several civil groups and cooperatives in the city and its metropolitan region. We likewise benefit from having a network of 'living labs' in the Catalan countryside, where degrowth is practised and experienced in a rural setting. The content of the Master's degree is designed to respond to the current era of unfolding ecological breakdown and the interrelated crises of growing inequalities, poverty and environmental disasters. The common root of these crises is the growth imperative of capitalist economies or risk collapse.

Career opportunities

This is a master propio that does not lead to doctoral studies. It is addressed for people who want to work in:

• The Social and Solidarity Economy Entities
• Public administration, as for example Environmental and Cooperation Department
• Environmental Justice Organizations
• EnvironmentalThink-tanks
• Environmental Professional consultancies
• Cooperatives
• Community economies for ecological transformations