Applied Environmental Sustainability
Applied Environmental Sustainability
The Master's in Applied Environmental Sustainability is a joint master's degree program offered by:
- Instituto Superior de Agronomia
- Faculdade de Ciências
- Instituto Superior Técnico
- Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão
- Instituto de Geografia e Ordenamento do Território
- Instituto de Ciências Sociais
The general objectives of the master's degree are to provide knowledge and skills in the following areas:
- Fundamentals of sustainability science, including its historical trajectory, main concepts, constraints, and driving systems, as well as the strategic significance of the water-food-nature nexus;
- Understanding the phenomena, problems, and challenges of environmental unsustainability for the regulation and allocation of natural resources in complex and multidisciplinary systems;
- Knowledge to design, innovate, optimize, and operationalize sustainability initiatives for public or private management of natural resources with territorial implications, with a special focus on the agriculture, food, forestry, and water sectors;
- Use of methodologies and tools to define strategies and apply sustainability practices in policies, systems and processes within the nexus, at urban and rural scales, as well as at local and global scales.
The Master's degree in Applied Environmental Sustainability is awarded to students who have obtained 120 ECTS.
1ST YEAR - 1ST SEMESTER
| Curricular Units | ECTS |
| Environmental and Natural Resource Economics | 6 ECTS |
| Fundamentals of Agro-Environmental Data Science | 6 ECTS |
| Sustainability Assessment Methodologies | 6 ECTS |
| Conditional Curricular Unit | 6 ECTS |
| Conditional Curricular Unit | 6 ECTS |
1ST YEAR - 2ND SEMESTER
| Curricular Units | ECTS |
| Biodiversity Conservation and Ecosystem Services | 6 ECTS |
| Instruments, Methods, and Techniques for Biophysical Land Use Planning | 6 ECTS |
| Society, Communication, and the Environment | 6 ECTS |
| Conditional Curricular Unit | 6 ECTS |
| Cnditional Curricular Unit | 6 ECTS |
2ND YEAR
| Curricular Units | Duration | ECTS |
| Social Entrepreneurship | 1st Semester | 6 ECTS |
| Energy and Sustainability | 1st Semester | 6 ECTS |
| Dissertation Plan Seminar | 1st Semester | 3 ECTS |
| Conditional Curricular Unit | 1st Semester | 6 ECTS |
| Conditional Curricular Unit | 1st Semester | 6 ECTS |
| Dissertation/Internship/Project in Applied Environmental Sustainability | Annual | 33 ECTS |
CONDITIONAL CURRICULAR UNITS
The conditional curricular units are organised by Tracks.
WATER Track
| Curricular Units | ECTS |
| Renewable Bioenergy and Conversion Processes | 6 ECTS |
| River Systems Management and Conservation | 6 ECTS |
| Integrated Water Resources Management | 6 ECTS |
| Environmental Monitoring | 6 ECTS |
| Groundwater Pollution and Protection | 6 ECTS |
| Nature-Based Solutions in the Urban Water Cycle | 6 ECTS |
BIODIVERSITY Track
| Curricular Units | ECTS |
| Soil Conservation and Rehabilitation | 6 ECTS |
| Sustainable Finance | 6 ECTS |
| Forest and Natural Resource Management | 6 ECTS |
| Natural Resource Management and Conservation | 6 ECTS |
| Integrated Watershed Management | 6 ECTS |
| Environmental Monitoring | 6 ECTS |
CITIES Track
| Curricular Units | ECTS |
| Renewable Bioenergy and Conversion Processes | 6 ECTS |
| Urban Ecology | 6 ECTS |
| Sustainable Finance | 6 ECTS |
| Three-Dimensional Modeling and Urban Ecology | 6 ECTS |
| Geographic Information Systems | 6 ECTS |
| Nature-Based Solutions in the Urban Water Cycle | 6 ECTS |
ENERGY Track
| Curricular Units | ECTS |
| Energy Storage | 6 ECTS |
| Renewable Bioenergy and Conversion Processes | 6 ECTS |
| Forest and Natural Resource Management | 6 ECTS |
| Natural Resource Management and Conservation | 6 ECTS |
| Environmental Monitoring | 6 ECTS |
| Energy Recovery from Waste | 6 ECTS |
EARTH Track
| Unidades Curriculares | ECTS |
| Functional Product Development | 6 ECTS |
| Urban Ecology | 6 ECTS |
| Sustainable Finance | 6 ECTS |
| Forest and Natural Resource Management | 6 ECTS |
| Integrated Watershed Management | 6 ECTS |
| Sustainable Agriculture Systems | 6 ECTS |
A3ES Accreditation
Applications
2026/2027 Applications
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Requirements
The following may apply for admission to the study cycle:
- Holders of a bachelor's degree or legal equivalent, namely in sciences, environmental engineering and related fields;
- Holders of a foreign higher education degree awarded following a 1st cycle fo studies organised within the principles of the Bologna Process by a State who has adhered to this process;
- Holders of a foreign higher education degree recognised as meeting the objectives of a bachelor's degree by the statutorily competent scientific body of the higher education institution to which they seek admission;
- Holders of an academic, scientific, or professional curriculum vitae recognised by the course committee as attesting to the ability to complete this cycle of studies.
