Geography Taught Masters

MSc Environmental Hazards & Risk

The taught postgraduate courses on the Risk route share an interdisciplinary foundation in risk and vulnerability. Our different MSc courses on this route deepen students’ understanding of the risks emerging from anthropogenic climate change, hazards and political responses to disruption.

Our MSc in Environmental Hazards and Risk explores the causes and devastating impacts of natural events including earthquakes, floods, drought, heatwaves, landslides and climate change and the threat they pose to environments and populations around the world.

Taking a natural sciences approach, you will develop an in-depth knowledge of these global environmental hazards, and consider the extent of their physical and social impact on society, the consequences for social vulnerability and for resilience. The course is likely to appeal to those with a background in natural sciences or engineering.

MSc Environmental Hazards and Risk Course Structure

The MSc Environmental Hazards and Risk provides students with specialised scientific training in environmental hazards. Students will receive theoretical and practical training for understanding, quantifying and/or critically evaluating environmental hazards and the relationship of these with issues of vulnerability and resilience.

You will learn about how environmental hazards and risks persist over long periods of time instead of merely as single events, and are made up of both natural processes as well as socio-economic dynamics.

MA Environmental Hazards and Risk: Course Brochure (pdf) [Updated for 2026 - Coming soon]

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