Applied Environmental Sustainability
Knowledge on the fundamentals of sustainability sciences, including its historical path, main concepts, constraints and driving
systems, as well as the operational significance of the water-food-energy-biodiversity nexus, including its decline in rural and urban
territories;
- Capacity to understand environmental unsustainability phenomena and related challenges and the required steps towards
regulation and allocation of resources in multidisciplinary systems combined with conservation or recovery of natural capital;
- Capabilities to innovate, design, optimize and operationalize sustainability initiatives for public or private management of natural
resources, with a focus on nexus sectors;
- Use of methodologies and tools to define strategies and to apply practices and techniques for embedding Sustainability in policies,
systems and processes within the water-food-energy-biodiversity nexus, either at local and global scales
To Identify and to formulate solutions for environmental sustainability problems by using fundamental and applied knowledge;
To promote integrated resources management by combining the carrying capacity of the territory considering agriculture, forestry and
urban systems with water, energy and nature conservation values;
To interpret experimental and digital data to evaluate and measure the environmental sustainability of policies, systems or
processes;
To manage strategies, plans and measures for environmental sustainability, knowing how to explain, communicate and support
society in participatory processes;
To work individually and in multidisciplinary teams, creating interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary syntheses, also with the capacity for entrepreneurship and lifelong learning
Access and ingress
Students who meet the conditions required for a Master's degree (Art. 17 of Decree Law no. 65/2018, DR, 1st series - No. 157, of 16
August) will be eligible to enrol in the Master's in Applied Environmental Sustainability, namely:
a) Holders of a bachelor's degree or legal equivalent, namely in environmental sciences or engineering or similar;
b) Holders of a foreign higher academic degree awarded following a 1st cycle of studies organised in accordance with the principles
of the Bologna Process by a State adhering to this Process;
c) Holders of a foreign higher academic degree that is recognised as satisfying the objectives of a bachelor's degree by the statutorily
competent scientific body of the higher education institution to which they wish to be admitted;
d) Holders of an academic, scientific or professional curriculum that is recognised as attesting to their ability to complete this cycle of
studies by the course committee.