Harper Adams University - Prospectus 2024

Environment, Sustainability andWildlife Let your curiosity about the natural world lead you to dynamic career opportunities. The environment and its biodiversity provide us with vital resources, underpinning our economic prosperity, health and wellbeing. Climate change, pollution, population growth and habitat loss are posing serious challenges everywhere. Environmental managers and wildlife ecologists with specialist knowledge and an understanding of the big picture are increasingly in demand. Our degrees can help you meet those challenges directly – working with major employers in the private sector, environmental organisations, third sector organisations and charities, or publicly funded bodies like the Environment Agency, Forestry Commission, Natural England or the Marine Management Organisation. At Harper Adams, we will give you the skills, knowledge and qualifications you need to contribute to a sustainable future. A degree fromHarper Adams will put you in a position to make a real difference. Both of our courses focus on the sustainable management of land for the production of food, timber and clean water, alongside strategies to mitigate the threats that climate change poses. The environmental management and sustainability route focuses on how businesses and major employers can act to minimise their environmental footprint, while the wildlife conservation and ecology route is ideal for those with a passion for wildlife who want to specialise on biodiversity and its protection. Each route is tailored to suit industry needs and reflects how the sector will need to respond to government initiatives and international commitments to tackle climate change, biodiversity loss and the energy crisis. Changes in the environment and land use affect our wildlife, society and the economy. You’ll learn why and how to manage our world more sustainably, following both domestic and international policy. The countryside will be your classroom. You will put theory into practice in rural and urban habitats and communities surrounding our campus. Our University estate, including a commercial farm, is a great way to see land management in action, not to mention visits to local farms, estates, factories and interesting properties, and guest lecturers from industry. You’ll also develop highly transferable job skills such as teamwork, problem solving and managing people and projects. You will graduate ready for an exciting and rewarding career working alongside other professionals in the fields of engineering, hydrology, planning, and agriculture to ensure that land management and land use changes have acceptable environmental impacts – and ideally lead to a net gain – yet add to economic prosperity. One of the best things about these courses are the field trips. Watch this short film to find out about one project on Anglesey or read our blog from this year’s trip. 46 | UNDERGRADUATE PROSPECTUS 2024