Applied Environmental Sustainability Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon

Overview

The Applied Environmental Sustainability course at Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon is a joint master's degree program offered by:

• Instituto Superior de Agronomia

• Faculdade de Ciências

• Instituto Superior Técnico

• Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão

• Instituto de Geografia e Ordenamento do Território

• Instituto de Ciências Sociais

Key facts

The general objectives of the master's degree are to provide knowledge and skills in the following areas:

• Fundamentals of sustainability science, including its historical trajectory, main concepts, constraints, and driving systems, as well as the strategic significance of the water-food-nature nexus;

• Understanding the phenomena, problems, and challenges of environmental unsustainability for the regulation and allocation of natural resources in complex and multidisciplinary systems;

• Knowledge to design, innovate, optimize, and operationalize sustainability initiatives for public or private management of natural resources with territorial implications, with a special focus on the agriculture, food, forestry, and water sectors;

• Use of methodologies and tools to define strategies and apply sustainability practices in policies, systems and processes within the nexus, at urban and rural scales, as well as at local and global scales.