Environmental Sciences - Soil, Water, Biodiversity

University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna

Overview

EnvEuro takes you from the European environmental lessons learned, through practices and challenges to future environmental technologies and solutions, which are needed for a sustainable use of natural resources.

The focus is on the interactions between land use and the environment, with the aqueous phase placed at the core of the programme. Water quality is to a large extent determined by the composition, properties, management and pollutant loads of soils and of the atmosphere, and water is the main carrier of pollutants in the terrestrial environment and connects to the atmospheric environment, the aquatic environments and to the biosphere as plants and micro organisms take up nutrients and substrates through the aqueous phase.

Key Facts

The  Environmental Sciences - Soil, Water, Biodiversity at University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna aims at providing candidates who can work professionally with soil, water and biodiversity in an environmental context and related to the use of natural resources, and based on insight in European ecosystems and knowledge on current European environmental management. 

The program offers different possibilities for specialisation and hence should be attractive for both students interested in management and policy, and students inclined to a strict natural science approach focusing on process and system functioning, process dynamics, monitoring and modelling. However, all students will start up with a common introduction to European environmental practises including legislation, regulation, monitoring/data collection and policy.