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The University of Edinburgh: Global Environment, Politics and Society

Institution The University of Edinburgh View institution profile
Department School of Social and Political Science
Web https://www.ed.ac.uk/studying
Study type Taught

Summary

Global Environment, Politics and Society (GEPS) is a highly interdisciplinary programme that caters to and draws on many academic backgrounds and areas of practical experience. In this programme, you will use social scientific approaches to understand and address environmental issues.

Understanding issues such as climate change, biodiversity, and sustainable development requires understanding and analysis of the political, social, cultural, and moral dimensions of environmental problems and solutions. This programme provides a social science-based, practice-oriented exploration of these global environmental challenges and solutions.

On the GEPS programme, you will develop the knowledge and analytical tools to address questions such as:

  • Are meaningful international environmental agreements possible in a system of sovereign states?

  • Is the environment more than an economic resource for human exploitation? Should it be?

  • What drives groups, individuals or institutions to take action on environmental issues?

  • What is the effect of such mobilisation?

  • What does environmental justice look like, to what extent is it achievable, and how?

You will have flexibility to design the programme to your interests, and can take many methodological, disciplinary, and integrative approaches.

You can engage with the full range of social science, humanistic, and even natural/physical science disciplines by taking courses from fields across the University.

You can also take advantage of the many climate and sustainability activities offered by:

  • the Edinburgh Environment and Development Network

  • the University's Social Responsibility and Sustainability Department

  • the Edinburgh Environmental Humanities Network

  • the University’s Centre for Sustainable Forests and Landscapes

  • the University’s Earth Initiative

Whilst we broadly focus on social sciences, this programme does not focus on economics, business, finance, or law. There are other strong programmes in these areas, with relevance to environmental issues, at the University of Edinburgh.

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The University of Edinburgh is one of the world's top universities, consistently ranked in the world top 50, and placed 34th in the QS World University Rankings 2026.

Our position as one of Britain’s leading research universities was reaffirmed by the results of the 2021 Research Excellence Framework (REF). The University of Edinburgh is one of the world’s top research-intensive universities, ranked 4th in the UK for research power (Times Higher Education, Overall Ranking of Institutions), with 90% of our research activity classified as world leading or internationally excellent in the 2021 Research …

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