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Sustainable Development and Environmental Management
Choose a Master, an MS or an MBA in Sustainable Development and Environmental Management
The Sector of Sustainable Development and Environmental Management
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) identify the great challenges facing humanity and that will set the global agenda of the next century, including hunger, poverty, inequality, access to water, energy or climate change. Companies are an economic engine that can contribute to its solution. Therefore, the international community has encouraged the private sector to participate actively in achieving the goals. Companies can hardly define their strategy and develop the business without attending to these needs, that is, without following the lines marked by Agenda 2030. Companies are also called upon to participate because, as members of society, they have the ethical duty to contribute to social improvement ("people, planet and prosperity"). They will also benefit from achieving these objectives and the door will be open to numerous opportunities for businesses, such as public-private partnerships for development, the promotion of integrated value chains or the incorporation of consumers into emerging markets. As a result, companies will be able to capitalize on numerous profits,
Follow a Masters/MS/MBA in Sustainable Development and Environmental Management
A postgraduate curriculum on sustainability issues is addressed from an interdisciplinary point of view. The program prepares students to apply sustainable development skills and respond to the needs and potential for social transformation. The master's degree focuses on global development and environmental problems that have been recognized in international agreements. It also explores how to find solutions to these challenges by promoting sustainable development. , to provide practical research experience and space for reflection in order to promote sustainable development, and the development of critical skills, analysis and integration for environmental resolution and sustainable development challenges.
Follow a Masters/MS/MBA in Sustainable Development and Environmental Management
An expert in sustainable development can find job opportunities in government ministries and other public sector organizations interested in policy analysis in the areas of sustainable development management of the environment, and international and nongovernmental organizations dealing with the sustainable dimensions of economic change. It can also work in public and private sector enterprises that carry out analyses of the relationship between environment and poverty, and applied research and teaching in research and higher education institutions.
Sustainable Development and Environmental Management in 2024
Last year, the Senior Management Survey published by KPMG revealed that sustainable development has gone beyond the trend and is becoming the focus of business models. According to the survey, 54% of companies already have a specific strategy for the environment. Economic sources must strike a balance between profitability, social equity and environmental responsibility, based on a culture and philosophy that transforms the organizational structure and I managed to make Corporate Social Responsibility not an area issue, but the DNA of the companies that promote the development of the country.
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The expert's corner
Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Sustainable development is “development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs”, underlying the intergenerational concern. An important dimension relates to the natural environment, and the increasing concern regarding the implications of the current pace of economic growth for the quality of the environment and sustainability. Since the economic value of natural ecosystems derives from the value of goods and services they provide, typically non-marketed public goods, largely unmeasured, preservation priorities are motivated by the costs imposed by degradation of those services. As “what gets measured, gets managed”, it is well understood that for managing the interactions between the natural environment and economic activity it is key that nations seek a measure to judge whether their economies’ productive base, consisting of the total array of assets, is non-decreasing at a given point in time, as the usual measures of economic performance such as gross domestic product (GDP) cannot provide it. At the local/regional level there is an increasing awareness that spatial patterns of costs and benefits can be very different, as distinct populations react differently. Thus, to minimize conservation-development tradeoffs policy evaluation is key, requiring interdisciplinary tailor-made policy design.
