Political Ecology MA

Lancaster University

The Earth is faced with unprecedented and interconnected environmental challenges which produce profound inequalities in terms of prosperity, power and justice. Responding to complex problems like these demands both critical thought and action in order to understand and to help us to live with a changing planet. This unique programme in Political Ecology offers the conceptual tools and practical skills to ask and respond to the difficult questions of human-environment relations. You are encouraged and given a safe space to confront and challenge the status quo through critical thought and debate, and crucially to help drive transformative action for a better and fairer world.

Who is this programme for?

Anyone seeking to address the environmental injustices and unequal power relations that are visible throughout the world today. By doing so, you will become an environmental ‘change-maker’ capable of working in a variety of sectors.

Looking ahead to employability

We develop your skills in:

• Understanding the different ways of analysing, debating and acting in response to diverse environments and development concerns, from local to global scales
• Project management for driving transformative action and change
• Constructing conversations to tackle the world’s most urgent and challenging environmental and developmental questions