Climate Crisis. Loss of biodiversity. Sustainability. Through key problem solving, innovation and holistic strategies, you will investigate how the environment and natural resources are managed, and how the world can transition toward more just and sustainable systems. Set out on a career path for a better world.

Climate Crisis. Loss of biodiversity. Sustainability. Through key problem solving, innovation and holistic strategies, you will investigate how the environment and natural resources are managed, and how the world can transition toward more just and sustainable systems. Set out on a career path for a better world.

As part of the new Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change at York University, this program centres on finding sustainable solutions to the most pressing environmental challenges of our time. Through key problem solving, innovation and holistic strategies, the Sustainable Environmental Management program prepares you with the fundamental knowledge, critical thinking skills, hands-on experience, and global perspectives necessary to make positive change.

Students benefit from internship opportunities, field- and lab-based exercises, and optional global experience at York University’s Las Nubes EcoCampus. You will learn how policy & social dynamics and applied aspects of environmental science and technology make positive change. Become a changemaker for a just and sustainable future.

Explore some of the most critical issues facing the earth today: the climate crisis, loss of biodiversity and ecosystem services, waste management, energy consumption and sustainable solutions. Investigate how the environment and natural resources are managed, and how we can transition toward more just and sustainable systems.

As a Sustainable Environmental Management student at York University, you learn first-hand about energy, water, biodiversity, food and waste while developing the technical skills to analyze, synthesize and evaluate political, economic and social dimensions of environmental problems and develop pathways to sustainability transitions and innovation.