Integrated Natural Resource Management Humboldt University Berlin

Overview

The study program Integrated Natural Resource Management from Humboldt University Berlin teaches research and practice in the context of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. The interdisciplinary study of the society-nature interface has components from institutional and neoclassical economics. The program integrates knowledge from different academic fields both in the natural and social sciences, including ecological systems, political sciences, institutional analysis, and advanced research methods, which are all relevant to improved  understanding and implementation of natural resource management.

International students will be in close contact with scientists from policy- or sustainability-oriented research institutes in the Berlin-Brandenburg area. The area has a very high concentration of such research institutes and policy-oriented think-tanks.

Career Opportunities: 

Alumni of the INRM Master Programme are currently employed in all private and public branches of resource management, environmental protection and the sustainability transition: soil protection, landscape management, water protection and water regulation, river management and flood protection, emission mitigation and climate protection policy, nature protection and reserve management, biodiversity policy and preservation of genetic resources, co-existence of conventional and GMO cropping, implementation of agri-environmental measures, organisation of ecological farming, production of renewables and bio-energy, multifunctional restructuring of agriculture, sustainable regional management and project management, implementation of EU environmental directives, development cooperation and international environmental conventions.

Future employers may be:

• international organisations and administrations operating in the fields of environment, development, agriculture, food, fishery, forestry, climate, energy, or landscape;

• national authorities and organisations, such as ministries, NGOs, environmental and agricultural associations, chambers und agencies, environmental co-operatives and foundations;

• private environmental service enterprises, e.g. environmental impact assessment, environmental certification, environmental consultation, corporate sustainability strategies;

• private environmental industries;

• public and private R&D institutions, e.g. research institutes and universities.

For more information about this program, please visit:  

Program Website: https://shorturl.at/Tb00Z

Promotion Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jyp8By2NV84