Overview
Humanity is about to transgress planetary boundaries, with climate change inducing one of the most critical societal challenges. Increasingly, climate change adversely impacts our physical environment and socio-ecological systems so that growing and diverse groups of society call for a low- to zero-carbon transformation.
This transformation will provide opportunities and risks for a more just society and inevitably will be conflict-laden due to trade-offs, adverse feedbacks among sectors and diverse competing interests.
The Climate Change and Societal Transformation program at University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna integrates
- a physical understanding of the climate system, its processes and drivers, and climate change and associated impacts,
- a socio-ecological analysis of the drivers, agents and impacts of climate change and of potential solutions, and
- transformative approaches for a sustainable and just society explicitly taking global North-South dynamics into account.
Career prospects
The Master’s program qualifies graduates to pursue the following professional activities:
- Teaching and research in inter- and transdisciplinary climate and sustainability science at university level, in public and private research and educational institutions, both at national and international level.
- Development, implementation and assessment of strategies and policies for climate change mitigation and adaptation in the public sector (regional or national administration, international organizations), in non-governmental organizations, (e.g., development, environmental and nature conservation organizations), consulting and advisory firms, statistical offices, sustainability departments, etc.
- Contributing to the development and implementation of solutions for sustainable development in the public and private sector, e.g., business, public administration, non-profit organizations, social and health care, etc.
- Knowledge “translation”, communication, and dissemination: adult education, investigation and media coverage, journalism, (non-)governmental organizations and boundary organizations concerned with environment and climate, etc.
Programme Structure
Courses include:
- Climate Change And Social Ecology
- Grand Challenges In The Anthropocene
- Scenarios And Models As Tools To Understand Complex Systems
- Transformation Pathways
- Inter- And Transdisciplinary Approaches And Processes
- Field Of Thesis Research
Key information
Duration
- Full-time
- 24 months
Start dates & application deadlines
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Credits
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Disciplines
Climate Studies & Meteorology Social Policy View 7 other Masters in Climate Studies & Meteorology in AustriaWhat students do after studying
Academic requirements
We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.
English requirements
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Other requirements
General requirements
- For admission the proof of English knowledge at level B2 (Common European Framework of Reference for Languages) must be provided.
- Graduates of the bachelor’s programme in Environment and Bioresources Management, Environmental Sciences and Civil Engineering, Landscape Architecture and Landscape Planning, Agricultural Sciences, and Forestry offered by BOKU
- Graduates of other relevant bachelor’s programmes in environmental and sustainability sciences, natural sciences or social sciences can be admitted with no further requirements if they can prove 9 ECTS credit points each in social and natural sciences as well as 3 ECTS credit points in technical sciences.
- Admission of those holding other relevant degrees will be determined on a case-by-case basis and may be made contingent upon successful completion of additional subjects.
Tuition Fee
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International
1454 EUR/yearTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 727 EUR per semester during 24 months. -
EU/EEA
726 EUR/yearTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 363 EUR per semester during 24 months.
Living costs for Vienna
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