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Study for a successful and impactful environmental management career

Meeting the challenge of sustainable business, which strives to balance environmental, social and economic risks and opportunities, requires innovative knowledge, skills and tools. This MSc will equip you with advanced theoretical knowledge and help you to develop practical and professional skills to positively address sustainability issues in the real world. You will critically evaluate complex environmental issues, develop effective strategies and lead their implementation to enable an effective and sustainable future. Delivered by the School of Water, Energy and Environment and the globally renowned Cranfield School of Management, this unique MSc integrates business acumen and environmental expertise to prepare you for a successful career in sustainable business and environmental management. 


Overview

  • Start dateFull-time: October, part-time: October
  • DurationOne year full-time, two-three years part-time
  • DeliveryTaught modules 40%, group project 20% (dissertation for part-time students), individual thesis project 40%
  • QualificationMSc, PgDip, PgCert
  • Study typeFull-time / Part-time
  • CampusCranfield campus

Who is it for?

This environmental management course is open to students from a range of academic backgrounds, including science and engineering, business and social sciences, who wish to develop a successful and rewarding career in environmental management. Specifically designed to meet the demands of global employers, it will equip you with current thinking on environmental issues, the ability to develop effective environmental management strategies, and the leadership skills you will need to bring your ideas to life.

Your career

With the urgent global focus on environmental issues and natural resource management, you can expect to be highly sought after by employers. Successful students develop diverse and rewarding careers in environmental and business consultancies, manufacturing and service industries, public sector organisations such as environmental protection agencies, together with non-governmental organisations.

Adam Faiers, alumnus and Director of Spedan Ltd, shares his experiences of Cranfield

Graduates of this course have gone onto work in a range of roles, including:

Corporate Sustainability Manager, Senior Sustainability Consultant, Head of Environmental Operations, Business/Research Consultant, Sustainability Project Manager, Environment Health & Safety Officer, HSEQ-coordinator, Product Stewardship Engineer, Research Engineer, Risk Analyst, National Project Coordinator.

Within prestigious institutions including:

ASE Group, AVISO Consultancy, Bouygues Construction, Caterpillar, Confederation of European Paper Industries, Continental Landscapes Limited, Coriolis Energy, ENTPE  (France), Flag , Groupe de Bruges, Honeywell, HSSMI, Imerys, Interserve, JLL, KierWSP,  KPMG, Manhattan Atrium, Müller UK & Ireland Group , Oakdene Hollins Ltd, PwC, Samsung Electronics, Save-by-Solar Sweden AB, Unilever, United Nations Development Programme, University College London, Verascio Ltd, Virgin Media, VR Group  (Finland), Yorkshire Water.

This course is focused on preparing you to follow in the footsteps of our alumni and forging a successful career. Teaching is delivered by research active staff, together with visiting lecturers and environmental management specialists, to ensure that you learn the latest theory and practice. You will apply your theoretical understanding through practical sessions, industrially relevant group and individual research projects.

Cranfield Careers and Employability Service

Cranfield’s Career Service is dedicated to helping you meet your career aspirations. You will have access to career coaching and advice, CV development, interview practice, access to hundreds of available jobs via our Symplicity platform and opportunities to meet recruiting employers at our careers fairs. Our strong reputation and links with potential employers provide you with outstanding opportunities to secure interesting jobs and develop successful careers. Support continues after graduation and as a Cranfield alumnus, you have free life-long access to a range of career resources to help you continue your education and enhance your career.

Cranfield supports international students to work in the UK after graduation.

Why this course?

The Environmental Management masters provides you with the knowledge and skills demanded by the full range of organisations involved in all aspects of managing the natural environment.

Merge environmental management expertise with sustainable business practices, enhanced leadership and management skills, innovation and entrepreneurship while addressing global sustainability challenges.

  • Develop an advanced understanding of sustainable development and the knowledge of related international, national and local government policies and frameworks, with particular emphasis on natural resources and the environment.
  • Study at a university that has been providing postgraduate education in environmental management for over 20 years.
  • Gain advanced leadership skills via the Leading Corporate Sustainability module, delivered in association with the globally-renowned Cranfield School of Management.
  • Benefit from teaching by research-active staff and industry specialists that were rated ‘excellent’ in the last Teaching Quality Assessment
  • Develop practical skills that will enable you to make an immediate impact on real-world environmental issues from day one in your new career.
  • Leverage our global reputation, alumni and extensive links with relevant employers to develop your career.
  • Enhance your CV with complimentary membership of the Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management (CIWEM) and Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment (IEMA).
I chose Cranfield because it's a very versatile course, it gives you a lot of background in environment and sustainability in a very broad sense. Cranfield has helped me step out of my comfort zone and push myself towards being a better version of myself. The intensive year really helped me a lot. It was a great experience.
There are students that are coming up with ideas that I would never have thought of and I know that businesses who we collaborate with would never have thought of. So it’s really important to get idea generation, to get motivations and to get people engaged in what businesses need today.
My Cranfield degree was known among professionals in my company, and recognised as a quality degree. It complemented my engineering knowledge with a more strategic and business-oriented point of view; I use this knowledge every day.

Informed by industry

The Environmental Management for Business MSc is closely aligned with industry to ensure that you are fully prepared for your new career.

  • The teaching team are heavily involved in industrially funded research and development, enabling you to benefit from real-world case studies throughout the course.
  • You will have the opportunity to participate in application focused and industrially relevant individual and group projects focused on your personal interests and career aspirations.
  • Accreditation by the Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management (CIWEM) and the Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment (IEMA) ensures that the course meets current professional standards.
  • Our regular consultations with senior representatives of key industries ensures that the programme continues to reflect the changing needs of employers. These organisations include:
  • ADAS
  • Astrium Geo-information Services
  • Chartered Institute of Waste Management
  • Chartered Institute of Water and Environment Management
  • Cresswell Associates
  • Environment Agency
  • Enviros
  • Geospatial Insight
  • Health Protection Agency
  • Joint Research Centre, Ispra
  • Landscape Science Consultancy
  • Landscape Institute
  • National Trust
  • Natural England
  • Oakdene Hollins
  • PA Consulting
  • RSPB
  • WRG

Course details

This course comprises eight modules, an individual project and a group project.

Part-time students normally complete individual dissertations in place of the group project.

The taught programme comprises a structured sequence of modules, each containing a series of lectures and other classroom-based teaching, supplemented by practical work. The taught modules are assessed by assignments. Each module is taught over one week, usually followed by a week largely free of structured teaching to allow time for more independent learning and reflection.

Water course structure diagram

Course delivery

Taught modules 40%, group project 20% (dissertation for part-time students), individual thesis project 40%

Group project

Group projects, which run between February and April, enable you to apply the knowledge, understanding and skills you have developed during the course modules into a real-world situations, while gaining transferable skills in project management, time management and written and oral communication.

Group projects are usually sponsored by industrial or public sector partners who provide particular challenges linked to their businesses. Projects generally require the group to provide a solution to the operational challenge. Potential future employers value this experience.

The group projects span the MSc courses across the Environment programme, giving the added benefit of gaining new insights, ways of thinking, experience and skills from students with other backgrounds.

During the project you will develop a range of skills including learning how to establish team member roles and responsibilities, project management, and delivering technical presentations. At the end of the project, all groups submit a written report and deliver a presentation to the industrial partner. This presentation provides the opportunity to develop interpersonal and presentation skills within a professional environment. The project is assessed through a written report and an oral presentation by the group. In addition, a poster exhibition provides the opportunity to further develop presentation skills and effectively handle questions about complex issues in a professional manner.

Part-time students write a review of available information around a relevant topic including academic literature, presentation of ideas and analysis and the development of conclusions.

Recent group projects include:

  • Development of a sustainable food production system based on Forest Garden concept in Stratford-upon-Avon (Forest of Hearts - Edible Gardens for Good)
  • Environmental, technical, socio-economic assessment of retrofitting external insulation on older university buildings (Cranfield University)
  • Food waste innovations: case study of small to medium sized businesses (IMAGE programme –European Regional Development Fund)
  • A natural capital-based approach to infrastructure site selection as applied to transport routes and housing developments (Bedfordshire Local Nature Partnership)
  • Scenario planning for a circular future: Peterborough context (Opportunity Peterborough)
  • Assessing the environmental, technological and economic feasibility of potential reuse of tea waste (Unilever)
  • Data visualisation approaches in supporting 10-year investment planning decisions in East Anglian flood and coastal management (Anglian Water)
  • Development of full life cycle costs at National Grid for the UK gas distribution (National Grid).

Individual project

The individual project component takes place between May and September for full-time students and allows you to delve deeper into a specific area of interest and further develops research and project management skills that:
  • Provide the ability to think and work in an original way
  • Develop and test your ability to plan and carry out a piece of research
  • Apply theoretical knowledge and critical thinking
  • Contribute to knowledge
  • Overcome genuine problems
  • Communicate through a thesis and oral exam

As our academic research is so closely related to industry and public sector organisations, it is very common for our partners to put forward real-world problems or areas of development as potential research topics.

For part-time students, it is common that their research projects are undertaken in collaboration with their place of work under academic supervision, given the approval of the Course Directors.

Recent individual projects:

  • Developing a bespoke toolkit to analyse and communicate the environmental benefits of cardboard recycling (for a waste solutions company)
  • An economic valuation of the Thames Path National Trail
  • Developing supply chain sustainability in the construction industry through a knowledge sharing and benchmarking platform
  • An exploration of the relationship between small businesses and their resilience to extreme weather-related disruptions
  • Carbon footprint analysis of an integrated waste recovery plant
  • Sustainability key performance indicators for a media business
  • Smart homes, grids and cities: solutions for overpopulated cities with internet of things and smart systems integration
  • Plausible future scenarios for the manufacture and consumption of convenience foods in urban India to 2030
  • Circular economy: potential for resilience or vulnerability? – A Malaysian case study
  • How can the fast-moving consumer goods sector help create a market for waste treatment by-products?
  • An environmental evaluation of urban mobility based on an LCA approach
  • Managing the adoption of circular economy in SME
  • Exploring social media and networks as a driver to promote sustainable behaviour: case analysis and policy implications
  • Evaluation of methods for sustainability assessments of new, emerging and/or renewable energy technologies
  • Exploration of WEEE regulations and the potential for additive manufacturing materials.

Modules

Keeping our courses up-to-date and current requires constant innovation and change. The modules we offer reflect the needs of business and industry and the research interests of our staff and, as a result, may change or be withdrawn due to research developments, legislation changes or for a variety of other reasons. Changes may also be designed to improve the student learning experience or to respond to feedback from students, external examiners, accreditation bodies and industrial advisory panels.

To give you a taster, we have listed the compulsory and elective (where applicable) modules which are currently affiliated with this course. All modules are indicative only, and may be subject to change for your year of entry.


Course modules

Compulsory modules
All the modules in the following list need to be taken as part of this course.

Principles of Sustainability

Module Leader
  • Professor Paul Burgess
Aim

    Human population growth and increased resource use per capita requires improved management of our global ecosystem. Approaches such as the “Sustainable Development Goals”, “Natural Capital”, “Ecosystem Services”, and “Planetary boundaries” provide frameworks for businesses and wider society to resolve the synergies and trade-offs between major economic, environmental and social challenges. The “Circular Economy” approach refers to the development of “restorative” industrial systems that are grounded on the lessons of non-linear, feedback-rich ecosystems. The third approach is to explore the nexus between renewable energy, food, and other ecosystem services using per capita energy and food consumption. This module introduces and critiques the above frameworks and examines their application to resolve real-world problems and create commercial opportunities.

Syllabus
    • Definitions of sustainability; the Sustainable Development Goals, moving from an “Empty World” to a “Full World”,
    • Natural capital, ecosystem processes and succession; the role of energy; feedback systems; biodiversity and system restoration,
    • Using an ecosystem services and “doughnut economics” approach: quantifying trade-offs and synergies; improving water and nutrient management, reducing greenhouse gases emissions, enhancing stability, resistance and resilience, and issues of equity,
    • Introduction to the circular economy: opportunities for businesses,
    • How design, manufacturing practice and management can contribute to a circular economy,
    • Case study: trade-offs, synergies, and opportunities to enhance well-being and ecosystem service provision in terms of energy, food, feed and wood for a case study area.
Intended learning outcomes

On successful completion of this module you should be able to:

  • Critique terms such as “sustainability”, “ecosystem services”, “biodiversity”, “human well-being”, “circular economy”, “per capita energy use”, “natural capital” and “doughnut economics”,
  • Evaluate how natural capital and ecosystem service approaches can guide businesses and society to make decisions regarding the use of ecological resources, with a focus on biodiversity, greenhouse gases, and water use,
  • Explain how we can enhance the stability, resistance and resilience of human and natural systems,
  • Explain how the “circular economy” provides commercial opportunities,
  • Use a per capita approach to explore the synergies between food, feed, wood, and renewable energy production to guide decision making and identify opportunities in the context of a case-study.

Economic Valuation and Appraisal

Module Leader
  • Dr Anil Graves
Aim

    Environmental accounting is being used by institutions and businesses to guide decision making regarding competing projects and programmes. It involves financial appraisal, environmental valuation, and economic appraisal (or social cost-benefit analysis). This module explores the economic concepts and techniques that can be used for the valuation of non-market social and environmental services. You will also gain practical experience in extending a financial analysis to allow an economic appraisal.


Syllabus
    • Environmental accounting at business, sector and national levels.
    • Techniques for non-market valuation of social and environmental services: cost and income based approaches, demand estimation methods - expressed and revealed preference, choice modelling: examples of applications .
    • Principles and practice of financial and economic appraisal.
    • Case study application for an afforestation project in a spreadsheet environment.
    • Cost effectiveness analysis.

Intended learning outcomes

On successful completion of this module you should be able to:

  • Explain the purpose and methods of environmental accounting at business, sector and national levels.
  • Explain the difference between financial and economic valuation and appraisal.
  • Valuation: Critically assess strengths and weaknesses of different environmental valuation methods and techniques.
  • Appraisal: Critically evaluate different financial and economic appraisal metrics such as benefit: cost ratio, net present value, equivalent annual value, internal rate of return, and the choice of discount rate.
  • Undertake a financial and an economic appraisal in a spreadsheet environment.

Risk Communication and Perception

Module Leader
  • Dr Theresa Mercer
  • Dr Simon Jude
Aim

    The aim of this module to develop an appreciation of the importance of individual and group attitudes towards the perception of risk and how this may influence views, conduct and actions in the face of a range of risks including the development of communication methods to disseminate information about risk(s) to a range of audiences and how to determine its effectiveness.

    This module is 10 credits.


Syllabus
    • What is meant by the perception of risk and how it varies with context.
    • Attitudes towards risk based on psychological, cultural and other dimensions.
    • The role of various societal groups (the media, NGOs, etc) in risk issues.
    • Models of the amplification and attenuation of risk.
    • Understanding the “fright factors” in risk perception and the development of trust.
    • Horizon scanning and scenario building tools for communicating future risk to individuals and organisations.
    • Communicating risk messages to individuals, groups and society at large and errors in communication.

Intended learning outcomes

On successful completion of this module you should be able to:

  • Identify and analyse the “non-science” influences in risk assessment and management using sociological and psychological theories relating to risk perception, attitudes and communication.
  • Identify and evaluate drivers that may influence individual or group perceptions and attitudes towards risk in specific scenarios.
  • Participate in the discourse on the roles in society of different stakeholders (e.g. the media, NGOs, academics, government) with respect to risk assessment issues and to be able to describe to others why they have the beliefs they hold.
  • Demonstrate skills in listening to concerns from different individuals/groups towards risks and the ability to enter into dialogue with such groups.
  • Develop effective means of communication to suit specific or general situations and how to demonstrate its effectiveness, and critique methods based on theories and evidence.

Environmental Policy and Risk Governance

Module Leader
  • Dr Simon Jude
Aim

    A critical application of environmental risk management is in the development and appraisal of policy in central government and business. Policies are developed to manage environmental risks and selection of policy options must be informed by risk based tools and techniques. Doing so demands a comprehension of the technical, organisational and human elements of governing environmental risks and developing environmental policy.

    This module draws these themes together by introducing core concepts and then illustrating these concepts with case studies spanning business and government, and finally application via a group exercise. Core lectures are supported by multiple case studies, a workshop and module assignment.

    This module is 10 credits.


Syllabus
    Risk governance. 

    Problem definition.

    Environmental risk analysis and management.

    Environmental policy development and appraisal.

    Policy instruments. 

    Policy co-design.

    Evidence-based conservation.
Intended learning outcomes

On successful completion of this module you should be able to:

Critically assess the technical, organisational and human features of effective environmental risk governance.  

Critically evaluate the environmental policy cycle of implementation and the basics of policy development and appraisal.   

Critically analyse different types of policy instruments, including regulation, economic, voluntary and other measures, and identify the appropriate policy instruments to use in different contexts.  

Compare and contrast environmental risk management techniques, selecting tools appropriate to the character of the risk in question.  

Rigorously interrogate the challenges and constraints of environmental policy co-design and evidence-based policy-making. Understand the challenges and constraints of environmental policy co-design.  

Leading Corporate Sustainability

Module Leader
  • Dr Annette Yunus Pendrey
Aim

    Global sustainability challenges are shaping the way business operates in the 21st century. Businesses are under increasing pressure from multiple stakeholders (for e.g. shareholders, customers, employees, society) to manage their positive and negative impacts with clear responsibility and strategic intent.  Leading firms are choosing to respond to these challenges by generating sustainable value propositions to ultimately drive competitive advantage. For many this has meant re-engaging at the level of purpose and re-addressing their role in wider society and for human well-being.

    This module outlines the major sustainability challenges and explores the capabilities organisations require to respond positively to them. It will engage you in gaining a better understanding of how corporate action can be best configured to promote responsible and sustainable business strategies. In doing so, it will demand management students (as future business managers and leaders) to reflect on the long-standing debate about whether or not ‘the business of business, is still business?

    This module is 10 credits.

    Watch video: An introduction to the Leading Corporate Sustainability module


Syllabus

    The content is organised around the sustainability management ‘compass’ below:

    The course content is structured as follows:

    Leading Corporate Sustainability

    Part 1: Setting the context

    Context setting

    • Managing corporate sustainability
    • Social and environmental trends

    The role of business

    • The role of business
    • Challenges and opportunities for business

    Exploring possible futures

    • Playing an interactive future sustainable scenario board game

    Part 2: Developing the capabilities

    • Setting a purpose
    • Formulating and implementing strategy
    • Working with stakeholders
    • Innovating
    • Collaborating
    • Valuing
    • Leading
Intended learning outcomes

On successful completion of this module you should be able to:

  1. Identify global environmental and social trends and assess how these present both challenges and opportunities to business and analyse the capabilities businesses need to manage these.
  2. Classify the potential stakeholder groups businesses can work with to develop and implement their sustainability strategies and evaluate collaborative approaches.
  3. Assess the role of personal leadership in an organisation’s values, strategic direction and ability to execute its sustainability strategy.
  4. Critically assess the content and reporting of businesses’ sustainability strategies.
  5. Design and recommend a sustainability-oriented innovation for a selected business.

Environmental Innovation

Module Leader
  • Professor Jim Harris
Aim

    While technological change is seen as the root cause of many environmental problems, it is simultaneously viewed as the means of solving such problems. This module explores technological change as part of positive sum strategies put forward by ecological modernisers. Theories of technological change are reviewed such as evolutionary, path dependent and long wave, and used to formulate technology policy to achieve environmental net gain or transition to a low carbon economy. These are then set in practical contexts such as innovation in manufacturing, ecological restoration or low-carbon living.



Syllabus
    • Ecological Modernisation, definition, key aspects, objectives and methodology.
    • Development of associated policy frameworks, market failure, the role of governments, policies and mechanisms to address this.
    • Innovation: Technology Development, transfer, adoption and diffusion.
    • Innovation and sustainability, utility which process offers in this context, drivers and barriers.
    • Integrated Sustainable Technology Assessment in context.
    • Clusters, technology road-maps and the development of sustainable technologies.

Intended learning outcomes

On successful completion of this module you should be able to:

Illustrate and debate the innovations in use and in development designed to tackle climate change, net zero and biodiversity loss.

Critically summarise the key trade-offs that occur in achieving technological change and economic development alongside environmental protection. 

Discuss and present a summary of examples of technological change developed to achieve transition, e.g., to a low carbon economy. 

Evaluate technology options and policy initiatives to stimulate transitions, e.g. to a low carbon economy using examples. 

Concisely justify a proposal for an environmentally beneficial initiative.



Strategic Foresight

Module Leader
  • Dr Kenisha Garnett
Aim

    Strategic foresight research refers to a range of methods that can be used to identify, analyse and communicate insights about the future. Standard methods include horizon scanning, trend research, and scenario planning. Outputs include emerging issues, trends, visions, scenarios, and wild cards. The methods employed and insights produced are used by both private and public sector organisations to inform a wide range of policy, risk, strategy and innovation processes. Foresight research is a truly inter-disciplinary ‘science’, covering and combining developments in society, technology, economy, ecology, politics, legislation and values.

    Crucially, foresight research is as much about analysing the past and present, as it is about looking to the future. Once we understand how a system has developed and works today, we can explore how it may evolve and what it may look like in the future. Strategic foresight techniques consider a wide range of possible, plausible futures so that planning can be put in place to adapt to and mitigate against various conditions. It is designed to add resilience, adaptability and flexibility to organisations in an increasingly complex and fast changing world.

    This module will explore how:

  • Horizon scanning can act as a method of gathering new insights that may point us towards affirming or discrediting existing trends and developments, as well as identifying new and emerging trends and developments that are on the margins of our current thinking, but will impact on the future.
  • Other foresight methodologies (e.g. scenario planning, visioning, back-casting) can be used to help us to use the trends identified from horizon scanning to identify how the future might develop.

Syllabus

    In this module, you will adopt a bespoke three-step foresight process to interpret change in the external organisational environment and use the insights generated to anticipate plausible futures and stress-test strategies that support building organisational resilience. 

    The foresight process will support you in building: 

    Robust organisational intelligence through systematic horizon scanning and insight generation,

    Resilience through comprehensive exploration and interpretation of the future to maintain flexibility (ability to adapt) against impending risks and to cease opportunities.

    Step 1: Build organisational intelligence 

    A 360o horizon scan of the external environment, both operational (e.g. market and consumer trends, competition) and contextual (e.g. regulatory constraints and opportunities, technological and social change), to systemically analyse those trends and patterns within the industry/sector and beyond that point to persistent trends, discontinuities or sharp disruptions that may challenge the future direction and ambition of your organisation. 

    Step 2: Develop a set of alternative plausible future scenarios 

    Build a set of plausible scenarios that explore alternative development pathways for your organisation in the future. The scenarios will reflect both positive and negative factors influencing the development of the organisation over the short to long-term, considering the contrasting role that various external driver of change (e.g. socio-demographic, technological, economic and policy change) will play. The scenarios should also consider discontinuities or sharp disruptive events (e.g. fuel crisis, political conflict or war) that may challenge the organisation’s continuity and its resilience, requiring an analysis of risks, opportunities and trade-offs over the long-term. 

    Step 3: Create a vision and strategic roadmap for achieving a desirable future (scenario)  

    Develop a vision and strategic roadmap for achieving the utopian scenario (i.e. most desirable future), defining the pathway and options for achieving the ambitions of your organisation. Apply the scenarios to stress-test the organisation’s future vision / strategy against potential disruption and to better prepare for other impending risks (e.g. financial and regulatory constraints) but also ceasing the opportunities that may arise. 

Intended learning outcomes

On successful completion of this module you should be able to:

  • Assess why organisations engage in strategic foresight research and what foresight research aims to achieve - and what it cannot do,
  • Evaluate the utility and application of different foresight research methodologies,
  • Examine the role of foresight research evidence in a broad organisational and environmental context,
  • Identify and apply the tools of strategic foresight research in a broad organisational and environmental context.
  • Apply strategic foresight research methods to support a convincing case for action within the organisation and use foresight research evidence to effectively plan for the long-term resilience of the organisation.

Sustainability and Environmental Assessment

Module Leader
  • Dr Gill Drew
Aim

    Environmental impact assessment and life cycle analysis are important tools for evaluating the sustainability of complex renewable energy technologies and industrial processes or products. The tools and concepts taught in this module will enable you to assess the sustainability of a case study from an environmental standpoint. Analysis of relevant case studies to demonstrate the assessment process, including how to account for uncertainty and sensitivity analysis.

    This module is 10 credits.

Syllabus
    • Environmental impact assessment and sustainability,
    • Environmental Impact Assessment,
    • Indicator selection and analysis,
    • Life cycle analysis, and carbon footprinting,
    • Social impact assessment,
    • The technique of demand forecasting.
Intended learning outcomes

On successful completion of this module you should be able to:

  • Critically assess the emissions and waste production throughout the lifecycle of a technology or process,
  • Design a framework to ensure compliance of a  process, product or service to support the transition to Net Zero that is  compliant with regulatory and voluntary requirements,
  • Evaluate forecasting techniques as one of the fundamental aspects of environmental assessment,
  • Critically evaluate different environmental and social appraisal metrics,
  • Design and implement a strategy to assess the environmental sustainability of a process or technology, and evaluate the associated uncertainties.

Teaching team

You will be taught by a combination of Cranfield academics and external experts who are practitioners in the subjects they deliver. Cranfield University has established itself internationally in a range of environmental disciplines and sustainable development.  As such, teaching staff are uniquely placed to deliver this important course. Invited lecturers include: Paul Stevens - Managing Director at Aviso Ltd and Adam Faiers - Spedan Ltd.

The Admissions Tutor is Mr Daniel Sandars and the Course Director is Dr Alice Johnston.

Accreditation

The MSc of this course is accredited by IEMA and the Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management (CIWEM).

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IEMA is the professional body for everyone working in environment and sustainability. This course entitles students to FREE student membership for the duration of the course and on successful completion you qualify for GradIEMA. Graduate membership is a launchpad for future leaders within environment and sustainability and offers a range of benefits to support you throughout your career. You can then “Fast track” to Practitioner Membership (PIEMA) following successful completion of the work-based assessment of competence.

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How to apply

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See our Application guide for information on our application process and entry requirements.