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Environmental Management and Sustainability

Are you interested in how companies and societies can become more sustainable? In this programme you are given flexibility to design your own strong profile within Environmental Management and Sustainability Science. Read more on these pages or go directly to the programme’s webpage: www.environmentalmanagement.aau.dk

<p>Are you interested in how companies and societies can become more sustainable? In this programme you are given flexibility to design your own strong profile within Environmental Management and Sustainability Science. </p>

About Environmental Management and Sustainability Science | Aalborg University

<p>The Master’s Programme in Urban, Energy and Environmental Planning with specialisation in Environmental Management and Sustainability Science at Aalborg University, Denmark, is directed at science and engineering students who are interested in topics related to sustainability and environmental management. The programme is designed to meet these new challenges, by integrating inputs from the social and human sciences into the study of planning and engineering. The focus is on how firms, governments, and other organisations can support sustainable development in an economically efficient and socially acceptable manner. </p>
<p>The aim of the programme is to provide you with an understanding of the leading theories and practical experiences within environmental management and sustainability. The programme enables you to define and solve environmentally related problems in the business world as well as in public organisations and the broader society.</p>
<p>You will work with questions like:</p>
<ul>
<li>What can you do to reduce the environmental strains of electronic products?</li>
<li>How can you, in an enterprise, use environmental management to reduce environmental and climatic strains?</li>
<li>How can we secure a sustainable development in an interplay with public authorities?</li>
<li>How can technology changes be carried through so that we secure a sustainable development?</li>
</ul>
<p>Read about the academic content of the Master's Programme in Environmental Management and Sustainability Science at Aalborg University.</p>

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<h4>Internship</h4>
<p>At the 3rd semester of the M.Sc. programme in Environmental Management and Sustainability Science at Aalborg University there are good possibilities of internship – in Denmark or abroad. You can work in an enterprise, a public institution or a NGO.</p>
<p>An Internship provide you with an opportunity to apply the theoretical insight and the methodological knowledge obtained during the 1st and 2nd semesters to a real life situation in a Danish or international setting.</p>
<p>The choice of internship is made on the basis of your interests. During the internship, you participate in the activities of an organisation and collect information for the project report. The project report is expected to have both a theoretical and empirical part relating to the actual experience of the internship.</p>
<h4>Examples of internships</h4>
<h4>Municipal solid waste management in accra, Ghana – The way forward</h4>
<p>An internship in the Environmental Protection Agency in Ghana. The internship report deals with the solid waste situation and is elaborated on the basis of interviews, questionnaires and part of the knowledge gained through the internship.</p>
<p>The report identifies major obstacles in the present solid waste management in Accra. Based on the theoretical framework of three institutional pillars, the report analyses and identifies possible ways of actions to get around the present deadlock. The report concludes that some of the major obstacles are inadequate logistics and insufficient funding, negative attitude of people, weak public awareness education, weak law enforcement, and inadequate remuneration. The solution to these problems would in the long run be to change the cognitive thinking of people by education and information through churches and traditional communities. This should be followed by strong law enforcement.</p>
<h4>Product-oriented environmental focus</h4>
<p>An internship at Novo Nordisk A/S in Copenhagen, Denmark. The aim of the internship was to analyse the environmental activities and performance at Novo Nordisk regarding production processes and products. During the internship, the student participated in environmental activities, conducted a number of interviews with key players in the field of environment, and studied various types of environmental documentation. The report discusses if the environmental management system of Novo Nordisk could become more product-oriented.</p>
<h3>Study abroad</h3>
<p>You can also choose to go on an exchange stay at a university abroad.</p>
<h4>Example of study stays abroad</h4>
<ul>
<li>University of Iceland, Reykjavik</li>
<li>Sheffield University, England</li>
<li>University of Melbourne, Australien</li>
<li>Delft University, Holland</li>
<li>University of Washington, Seattle, USA</li>
</ul>
<p>Read about EMSS students’ internship experiences at this page: <a href="https://www.environmentalmanagement.aau.dk/endorcements/">www.environmentalmanagement.aau.dk/endorcements/</a></p>
<p>For more information about internship and study abroad, please visit the local homepage for <a href="https://www.internationaloffice.aau.dk/">International Office</a> at Aalborg University.</p>

The world is facing severe problems related to overpopulation, depletion of resources, climate change, unknown effects of chemical cocktails, insufficient environmental governance systems, etc. Society is in great need for skilled environmental managers in order to face these challenges and to develop and implement sustainable solutions.


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<h3>Job and career</h3>
<p>Joining Master in Environmental Management at Aalborg University, you have chosen an exiting future, where you yourself contribute to form your career. You will find career opportunities in private consultancy firms and private companies as well as public organisations and international organisations.</p>
<p>During your education you can influence your career possibilities in direction of the job profile that suites you best. Are you for instance most interested in environmental management and greener products at company level? Or are you more interested in the policy level, creating institutional structures for and regulation of the environment? Do you want to work with various environmental projects as a consultant for public and private organisations? Your job opportunities are many, and you will experience that you can often combine skills across traditional professions.</p>
<h4>Examples of job offers for graduates from master in environmental management</h4>
<ul>
<li>Environment Manager</li>
<li>Environmental Consultants</li>
<li>CSR Manager</li>
<li>Regional Environmental Advisor</li>
<li>Principal Environmental / Sustainability Consultant</li>
<li>Environmental Officer  </li>
</ul>
<p>Read about the careers of former EMSS students at this page: <a href="https://www.environmentalmanagement.aau.dk/EMSS+careers/">environmentalmanagement.aau.dk</a></p>

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