MSc/Diploma in Climate Change: Impacts and Mitigation

School of Life Sciences

Heriot-Watt University

Climate Change is recognised as having potentially huge impacts on the environment and on human society. The study of the causes and impacts of Climate Change and the measures needed for humans to deal with it through mitigation and adaptation measures is a truly interdisciplinary complex of topics. It is essential that scientists, engineers and environmental decision-makers understand the fundamentals of the causes, impacts and management measures involved in dealing with such important issues.

This MSc course offers one Core module to introduce the Climate Change causes and impacts (Semester 1) and reviews the possible mitigation and adaptation measures in another Core module (Semester 2). The course structure therefore allows for three optional modules each semester from amongst all relevant modules in the University's postgraduate syllabus so that a ‘tailored' course can be constructed.

For potential optional modules please refer to module/subject areas available and listed in other School MSc courses, specifically those of School of Engineering and Physical Sciences, School of Mathematics and Computer Science, and School of the Built Environment. Advice will be given on the most appropriate modules available from the different Schools of the University in topics ranging across scientific, engineering, economics and management modules. The core subject areas involved are as follows:

Core Subjects

Climate Change: Causes and Impacts
Climate Change: Mitigation and Adaptation Measures
Research Project (MSc only)