Overview

The world is faced with unprecedented challenges and threats to our collective security and well-being. These are multi-dimensional, global in scope and impact, and increasingly intertwined. Climate change and environmental degradation threatens the lives and livelihoods of billions of people: through susceptibility to natural disasters and extreme weather to eroded … For more content click the Read More button below.

Contacts

Academic Chair

Admission requirements

Entry requirements (onshore)
Entry requirements (transnational)
English language requirements

Learning outcomes

1.

Describe and apply human and environmental security theories, approaches, issues and policies.

2.

Analyse and identify how networks of interwoven social, economic, political, and environmental factors produce security and insecurity

3.

Critically evaluate strategies, policies and interventions to enhance or enable human and environmental security outcomes locally, nationally and globally.

4.

Construct compelling, critical and well-researched arguments pertaining to human and environmental security.

5.

Design and manage projects of increasing sophistication, involving ethical inquiry, and working independently and with others.

6.

Engage with complex and often controversial human and environmental security debates and issues in ways that are respectful, collaborative, ethical and interdisciplinary.

7.

Develop interpersonal, ethical, research, analytical, problem-solving and other skills that that are valued in government, military, security, trade, education, law, technology, industry, media, marketing and other professional contexts.

Research areas

Studies in Human Society