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Professional Certificate in Environmental Policy and Management

  • Professional Certificate

Responding effectively to environmental problems involves far more than applying scientific knowledge, or the 'top-down' regulation of people and their environments.The future of our planet relies on informed and creative thinking around policy and practice.

Key details

Degree Type
Professional Certificate
Course Code
3PC002
Intake Months
Jul, Feb

About this course

Get the job done

Responding effectively to environmental problems involves far more than applying scientific knowledge, or the 'top-down' regulation of people and their environments.

The future of our planet relies on informed and creative thinking around policy and practice. This kind of environmental expertise is critical and in high demand.

Study locations

North Terrace

North Terrace Campus

What you will learn

Our Professional Certificate in Environmental Policy and Management provides a six-month fast track to making a real difference. You will:

  • explore environmental economics, governance and planning in depth
  • address how the signature environmental issues of our time are to be managed-from deforestation to global warming and water shortages
  • consider how ethics can shape environmental policy and management in different domains
  • build advanced research skills.

Career pathways

You could set up environmental programs for the public to air their concerns or better understand issues that affect them. You might negotiate environmental policy design with private businesses and government sectors. Perhaps you'll help implement economic incentives or decentralised solutions to environmental problems.


  • Drive the creation of policy that protects our environment
  • Ranked in the top 150-200 in the world for Geography^
  • 91% full-time employment for postgrad environmental studies graduates

^QS World University Rankings, 2022



Course structure

Students choose one of the core or elective courses.

Graduate outcomes

Graduate satisfaction and employment outcomes for Agriculture & Environmental Studies courses at University of Adelaide.
74.2%
Overall satisfaction
71%
Skill scale
64.5%
Teaching scale