Masters (MSc) Soils and Sustainability

Overview

'Soils & Sustainability'is a new Masters Programme that will be launched in September 2012. If you'd like to hear more about the programme, or are interested in taking it, we'd like to hear from you.

Soils underpin the sustainability of terrestrial ecosystems. From our earliest history, right up to the present day, soils have influenced the pattern of human settlement.

It is no accident that some of the earliest civilisations we located on the fertile soilsof the African Rift Valley and in the Middle East where they benefited from the ease with which agricultural production was possible. Today, society's relationship with soils is just as strong. Soils form the basis of all agricultural production, but they also store water, mediate the impact of pollutants, provide biological habitats, have an impact on the accumulation of greenhouse gases in our atmospehere, are involved in dealing with society's waste, are a source of extractable minerals, and provide the foundations for housind and roads that today's societies depend on.

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