- Degree
- Master of Science
- Course location
- Bonn
- In cooperation with
- United Nations University – Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS)
- Teaching language
- • English
- Languages
- English only
- Full-time / part-time
- • full-time
- Programme duration
- 4 semesters
- Beginning
- Winter semester
- Additional information on beginning, duration and mode of study
- On campus
Programme start: autumn semester (October)
- Application deadline
- Application period: 15 September – 15 December (to be confirmed)
- Tuition fees per semester in EUR
- None
- Combined Master's degree / PhD programme
- No
- Joint degree / double degree programme
- Yes
- Description/content
- This two-year Master of Science programme provides postgraduate students with detailed knowledge, critical understanding and the tools required to better understand the complex emergence of environmental risks and natural hazards, their implications for human-nature relations (vulnerability, resilience, adaptation), and how to deal with them in practice.
It offers great visibility and exposure to international organisations, federal agencies, research organisations and private companies involved in disaster risk reduction and preparedness, humanitarian aid, international relations, research on climate change, food security, spatial planning and policy.
Fields of study include:
• geographical approaches to risk, vulnerability, and resilience
• new approaches to development geography
• Earth system science
• qualitative & quantitative methods, as well as GIS & remote sensing
• social-ecological systems, risk & technology
• risk management and governance, forecast & prediction
• disaster management, disaster risk reduction (DRR), and humanitarian response
For additional information incl. the curriculum, module handbook, application FAQ, and more, please visit the programme's websites of the University of Bonn (https://www.uni-bonn.de/en/studying/degree-programs/degree-programs-a-z/geography-of-environmental-risks-and-human-security-msc) and UNU-EHS (https://unu.edu/ehs/learning/msc-geography-environmental-risks-and-human-security#overview).