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Risk- and environmental studies

We educate future strategists and administrators of environmental and safety issues. We research the way in which society handles sustainable development, climate-related risks and public safety.

Risk and environmental studies is an interdisciplinary subject that developed from environmental science, public health and risk management. The subject is mainly focused on society’s need to systematically handle different threats and risks posed to health, socially important functions and the environment. Risk and environmental studies includes analysis of threats as well as preparatory and preventative measures taken as part of sustainable development.

Find us on campus

Risk- and Environmental Studies has moved, from the 7 October you will find us in house 3B, floor 4.

Education

At Karlstad University, risk and environmental studies includes natural and social science as well as the humanities. We offer many different freestanding courses (many as distant education), and are responsible for two study programmes:

  • The bachelor’s programme in environment and safety (180 ECTS credits)
  • The master’s programme in risk management in society (120 ECTS credits)

Graduates from these programmes are prepared for careers in environmental work, systematic security work and adaptation to climate change. The bachelor’s programme integrates risk management and environmental science, focusing on society’s handling of different environmental crises. The master’s programme combines public safety, which aims to prevent personal injury in different environments, with studies of large-scale societal risk. These two areas are complemented by courses in risk communication, risk perception, adaptation to climate change and sustainable development.

Research

Risk and environmental studies is one of the subject areas offered at doctoral level at Karlstad University. Depending on specialisation and because of the interdisciplinary nature of the subject, doctoral students may be connected to different graduate schools. These include the national Centre for Natural Disaster Science, a partnership between Uppsala University, the Swedish Defence University and Karlstad University (and designated a strategically important research area by the government), as well as the multidisciplinary graduate schools of health and regional studies at Karlstad University.

Researchers from Risk- and Environmental Studies are active in the two research centres:

  • CSR, the Centre for Societal Risk Research
  • CRS, the Centre for Research on Sustainable Social Transformation
Author: Andreas Pettersson
Last update: 2020-10-09

Kontakt

Head of discipline
Finn Nilson
3A 434A
Studenternas hus, 2:nd floor
Tel: 054-700 2353
E-post: finn.nilson@kau.se

Director of studies
Tonje Grahn
3A 427
Studenternas hus, 2nd floor
Phone: 054 - 700 1433
E-mail: tonje.grahn@kau.se

Study councellor
Fredrik Olsson
Room 3B 320B
Tel: 054-700 1517
E-mail: fredrik.olsson@kau.se

Administrator
Hannah Bowring
3A 438
Tel: 054 - 700 2653
E-mail: hannah.bowring@kau.se

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