Bachelor of Environmental Management

Summary

Prepare to address the most urgent environmental issues of the twenty-first century with this multi-disciplinary degree. You’ll be prepared to face the challenges of climate change, biodiversity loss and diminishing freshwater quality.

This degree blends content from the physical and social sciences, fostering your understanding of the connections between environment, economy, society and culture. You'll understand the principles and strategies needed to address urgent local and global challenges.

How you’ll grow

• Understand the connections and interplay between social, economic and environmental issues.
• Learn the disciplines, principles, tools, strategies and systems for effective environmental management and be able to apply them in different situations.
• Develop the skills to practice professionally.
• Grow the academic background necessary to gain professional certification from the New Zealand Association of Resource Management. (Note: the Bachelor of Environmental Management is not accreditation in itself. This is obtained with a relevant degree and sufficient work experience.)

Career opportunities

You’ll be a preferred candidate for opportunities in the primary sector, resource management agencies, sustainability, conservation and community organisations. Plus you’ll expand your opportunities with local, regional and central government, private development consultancies and corporations.

Degrees that Work

The ability to pair a Bachelor of Environmental Management with courses on agriculture made Lincoln University a “no brainer” for Joanna.

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Degrees that Work | Joanna Hoogenboom

I chose Lincoln’s Bachelor of Environmental Management to help me gain a broad understanding of environmental issues and solutions that I may face in my career. This degree helped me achieve a practical knowledge base in the social and physical sciences whilst delving into the policy, planning and cultural influences of environmental management in New Zealand.

Billy Bartrum Bachelor of Environmental Management

Graduate Attributes

Graduate Attributes refer to the knowledge, skills, and values that you gain from completing your qualification. These high-level qualities will prepare you for career success, further study or research and making a valuable contribution to society in your chosen field.

Knowledge

• Discuss theoretical perspectives critical for environmental management, sustainability and rejuvenation.
• Analyse relationships between social and ecological systems.
• Understand and apply Te Tiriti o Waitangi in environmental management.
• Explain institutional and statutory processes for governing the environment at a range of scales.

Skills

• Demonstrate bicultural and intercultural competency relevant to environmental management.
• Employ critical analysis to understand and respond to sustainability challenges.
• Locate, evaluate and synthesise information from a wide range of sources required for environmental decision-making.
• Apply key methods, tools and techniques for environmental management.
• Communicate effectively using methods appropriate to different audiences.

Values

• Recognise the contribution of multiple knowledges, including the value of Indigenous knowledges, within environmental management.
• Understand equity and justice-based perspectives relevant to sustainability.
• Practice professional conduct.