Environment and Sustainability Memorial University of Newfoundland

Program Description

The Bachelor of Environment and Sustainability (BES) program bridges scientific concerns about natural resources with policy development and management. The four-year degree program offers two majors, one in Environmental Studies and one in Resource Management. People depend on the environment for many aspects of their daily lives, including food, employment, recreation, and natural resources for homes, transportation and consumer goods. Future generations will have a similar dependence on the environment as we do now; it is everyone's responsibility to ensure that they way we use resources now does not impact access to those same resources by future generations. This BES equips students with the tools and critical thinking skills necessary to make decisions regarding how we use the environment now with a view to future generations. Students in each BES major take a common set of courses through out the four years of the program. Environmental Studies majors take an additional set of courses from a social science perspective (such as economics, political science, geography) whereas Resource Mangement majors take as set of courses have an ecological or science based perspective (such as geographic information systems, population and resource dynamics, and quantitative methods).

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