Warsaw, Poland

Environmental Protection

Master's
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⇑Environmental Protection at SGGW

Language: EnglishStudies in English
Subject area: physical science, environment
Kind of studies: full-time studies
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⇑Why study Environmental Protection (Master's) at the Warsaw University of Life Sciences – SGGW?

Dlaczego warto studiować w Szkole Głównej Gospodarstwa Wiejskiego w Warszawie
Why study it:

Environmental Protection at the Warsaw University of Life Sciences – SGGW is a second-cycle programme taught in English, lasting 1.5 years (three semesters) and leading to the title of Master. It is designed for people who want to understand how the environment degrades and how it can be protected.

Programme: hazards, data and environmental decisions

The programme prepares you to identify environmental hazards, collect and analyse environmental data, make environmental decisions and apply protection techniques and technologies. You learn about the physical, chemical and biological processes in nature, and about the causes and mechanisms of degradation of its elements. Subjects include methodology of environmental research, ecotoxicology, landscape ecology, GIS modelling, modelling of environmental processes, contaminant flow in the environment, noise protection, riparian ecosystems conservation and risk analysis. You also learn how environmental protection fits into the legal system of Poland and the European Union, and how to assess the impact of technical, agricultural and forest activity.

Specialisation: Restoration and Management of Environment

The programme is offered with the Restoration and Management of Environment specialisation, which adds electives on remediation and restoration, and diploma seminars devoted to it.

After graduation: municipal, public and consulting careers

Graduates can find work in:

  • municipal economy enterprises and industrial plants,
  • national and regional funds for environmental protection and water management,
  • central and local government administration,
  • design offices, construction firms and consulting companies,
  • educational institutions and research institutes.

Based on the programme pages at sggw.edu.pl and the SGGW syllabus.

⇑Test: Is Environmental Protection the right fit for you?

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10 questions · two minutes

1. A developer plans a road through a wetland, and you’re asked to help with the environmental impact assessment. How do you approach it?

2. How do you feel about long days of fieldwork – counting birds, mapping plants or sampling soil?

3. You receive long-term air quality monitoring data for a region. What do you do with it?

4. How interested are you in environmental law and policy?

5. Lectures, fieldwork and projects are in English, in a group of graduates from many countries. How does that sound?

6. Local residents oppose protecting a forest because they depend on logging. How do you respond?

7. Would you like to write a thesis on, for example, how invasive species affect native ecosystems?

8. A company asks you to help reduce its environmental footprint. What do you do?

9. How do you react to alarming headlines about the state of the environment?

10. What motivates you most to pursue a Master’s degree in Environmental Protection?

⇑Definitions and quotes

Environmental Protection
Environmental protection is a practice of protecting the natural environment on individual, organization controlled or governmental levels, for the benefit of both the environment and humans. Due to the pressures of overconsumption, population and technology, the biophysical environment is being degraded, sometimes permanently. This has been recognized, and governments have begun placing restraints on activities that cause environmental degradation. Since the 1960s, activity of environmental movements has created awareness of the various environmental problems. There is no agreement on the extent of the environmental impact of human activity and even scientific dishonesty occurs, so protection measures are occasionally debated.
Protection
If you are not ready, and did not know what to do, it could hurt you in different ways. It could knock you down, hard, or throw you against a tree or a wall. It is such a big explosion, it can smash in buildings and knock signboards over, and break windows all over town, but if you duck and cover, like Burt [the Turtle], you will be much safer.
From Duck and Cover (1951), about protecting yourself from an atomic explosion.
Protection
Protection is not a principle, but an expedient.
Benjamin Disraeli, Speech in the House of Commons (17 March 1845).
Protection
Neither the Army nor the Navy is of any protection, or very little protection, against aerial raids.
Alexander Graham Bell, As quoted in The Military Quotation Book by James Charlton, p. 37.

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