Environmental Systems and Resource Management

In order to contribute to overcoming urgent ecological and social challenges, environmental systems science investigates changes in environmental systems (e.g. ecosystems, agriculture, production chains/logistics), associated problems and potential sustainable solutions as well as their implementation. It is no longer possible to solve today's problems with the help of individual scientific disciplines alone. Rather, interdisciplinary approaches are needed to understand the networked interplay of influencing factors and to be able to steer future developments in a meaningful way. The study program "Environmental Systems and Resource Management" is aimed at graduates of environmental systems science as well as graduates of more "classical" subjects (mathematics, computer science, chemistry, physics, economics, etc.) who would like to acquire an in-depth understanding of environmental systems and their analyses beyond their specialist focus. The focus of the course is on environmental research. Here, natural and social science approaches complement each other. The course focuses on the formal analysis of environmental systems on the basis of mathematical modeling and the application of social science methods in the management of natural resources.