Concentration Overview

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In the M.S. concentration Environment, Society and Public Affairs, graduate students increase their understanding of and capacity to address the social dilemmas we face in responding effectively to environmental and natural resource issues. Students in this concentration may focus on these social dilemmas in contexts that include:

• environmental policy and planning in local, state, federal, and international arenas;
• community studies, human behavior, and environmental sociology;
• public participation, social justice, conflict resolution, and decision making;
• land use planning and geospatial analysis;
• ecological economics; and
• park and wilderness management.

Upon completion of their degree, graduates typically move into jobs with government or non-profit organizations, or with consulting firms. They contribute to society's responses to environmental problems through their knowledge of human behavior, institutions, and decision-making. They may work performing policy analyses with public, private, or non-profit organizations; facilitating processes for citizen participation, environmental conflict resolution, and environmental planning; conducting analyses of economics and land use change; developing and implementing sustainable strategies for the conservation of resources; identifying and taking account of human values associated with natural resources.

For more information, please contact:
Carolyn Goodwin-Kueffner, Graduate Program Student Services Specialist
cgoodwin@uvm.edu

Specific requirements

General requirements and additional information in the UVM online catalogue