Introduction
The Major Environmental and Sustainability Sciences concentrates on the interactions and interdependencies between human activities and the environment. It has a strong focus on sustainability, understood as a question of balancing environmental, social, and economic objectives.
ESS students explore human beings and their interactions with the environment for more sustainability and engage in scientific work related to contemporary environmental issues (e.g. climate change, biodiversity loss, food production, energy supply).
The Major gives students a strong research-oriented foundation in the natural sciences and enables them to relate this to many 21st century challenges and possible solutions. The starting point is foundational knowledge acquisition in the Environmental and Sustainability Sciences in the basic modules. Later on, students expand and apply this knowledge in the profiling modules and Electives. The profiling modules provide students with specialization opportunities e.g. in questions of sustainable resources use, energy supply, and / or environmental governance.
