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CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT- University of the Free State Environmental Management - leadership for the future.
The Centre for Environmental Management at the University of the Free State was founded in 1994 and celebrates its 18 years of excellence this year. The Centre creates environmental leaders by drawing on national and international teaching and research from various fields to provide an inter-disciplinary approach to environmental management. The challenges environmental managers face requires leaders who are able to cross social, environmental and technological boundaries. Through an integrated approach, we create leaders with holistic answers to environmental management. What makes the Centre unique is that education and training, applied research and expert services are intricately linked and draw on each other to promote best practice in environmental management in particular. The Centre offers a Masters Degree in Environmental Management, part-time interdisciplinary over two years. We aim to attract a highly multi-disciplinary group with diverse skills ranging from social sciences, law and natural sciences to engineering. Environmental Managers are employed in a variety of industries. They come from academic backgrounds such as engineering, town and regional planning, architecture, biology, chemistry, geology, hydrology, natural resource management, social sciences and law to name but a few. The Centre for Environmental Management produces holistic answers to environmental management through an integrated approach. For more detail on the Program overview and regulations, please contact us.
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Centre for Environmental Management University of the Free State Bloemfontein Tel: +27 (0)51 401 2863 Tel: +27 (0)51 401 2629 E-mail: cem@ufs.ac.za. Website: www.ufs.ac.za/cem Prof Maitland Seaman Director: Centre for Environmental Management & Director: Strategic Academic Cluster: Water Management in Water-scarce Areas.