Climate, Energy and the Environment

Research and education within the fields of Climate, Energy and the Environment focus on trying to ensure that the energy we use does not have a negative impact on the climate and environment of our globe.

 

Climate, Energy and the Environment is one of the seven core competence areas of LIFE- Faculty of Life Sciences

 

Study programmes within the fields of climate, energy and the environment

 

MSc

The most obvious MSc programmes within these fields are Environmental Chemistry and Health, Environmental and Natural Resource Economics and Forest and Nature Management. But a number of our other English-language MSc programmes also involve climate, energy and the environment.

Se also EnvEuro Master Programme, Climate Change specialisation.

 

BSc

Climate and the environment are also very central to the (Danish-language) BSc programmes in Natural Resources and Forestry and Landscape Engineering. Also, the (Danish) BSc programmes in Agricultural Economics, Garden and Park Engineering and Landscape Architecture & Urban Design have aspects of climate, energy and the environment in them.

 

Distance learning courses

LIFE's distance learning courses within this field include:

Climate Change Impacts, Adaptation and Mitigation, a brand new interdisciplinary 15 ECTS E-learning course offered by the University of Copenhagen in close cooperation with the Danish Meteorological Institute, UC Berkeley and Australian National University. 

Environmental Management in Europe, an interdisciplinary E-learning course offered by the Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Copenhagen (LIFE) with contributions from different European universities and institutions. . 

 

Experts

In our (Danish) expert database you can find experts in matters related to soil, water, climate and the environment. LIFE has a number of climate professors and a large number of scientists researching into climate-related issues.

 

 

Research in the fields of climate, energy and the environment

LIFE has particular strength within the field of climate research. LIFE has thus set up a climate group, which together with University of Copenhagen’s climate panel will seek to further research and education into climate challenges.

 

Some of key central areas within Climate, Energy and the Environment are:

 

Plants (crop and forest) under changed climate conditions
Climate effects on populations of plants (crop and forest), animals and micro-organisms
Climate effects on soil and water resources
Climate effects on parasitic and vector borne infections of humans and animals
Climate changes and the aquatic environment
Carbon storage in soil and biomass
Sustainable production of bioenergy and other bio-based products
Sustainable urban development
Environmentally sustainable livestock production
Adaptive models for managing forests and nature under climate change
Climate challenges in developing countries
Urban greening and city ecology
Climate and energy economic research  
Economics of agriculture related mitigation and adaptation measures

You can also read about LIFEs Educational initiatives and  Public Sector Consultancy

Basic sciences and environment

• Agrohydrology – natural resources and sustainable plant production
• Biochemistry, agricultural chemistry & Natural Product Chemistry
• Physics/Biophysics
• Mathematics & Computer Science
• Mathematics - Applications of mathematics in chemistry, biology, population dynamics, and agriculture
• Computer Science – image analysis and bioinformatics
• Soil and Environmental Chemistry – incl. environmental microbiology, toxicology and risk assessment
• Statistics