What is Environment and Business?

This course is ideal for those with an interest in studying a degree that combines environmental and sustainability issues with sound business and management practice. It is concerned with the pressures and opportunities facing business as a result of the contemporary environmental and corporate social responsibility agendas.

The three-year programme at Leeds is designed for students who wish to develop skills in the use of concepts, methods and tools that can be used to transform economic, environmental and social pressures into positive business opportunities. It will suit students whose background is in business, geography or other social sciences, and who have an interest in improving the management of the environment-society-business interface, both for competitive advantage, and for sustainability.

Why study Environment and Business?

The objective of the programme is to equip students with the knowledge and skills that will help business to contribute effectively to making societies more sustainable. Students will develop skills in the use of concepts, approaches, methods and tools that address both the systems of a business and its stakeholders and that will provide work-based experience of deploying the above knowledge and skills. The programme will culminate in students writing a sustainability-based business plan.

Graduates of this programme are skilled in the coupling of sustainability with business approaches that facilitates more holistic, integrative and long-term solutions to environmental and social challenges.

The programme has four specialising pathways: Governance and Regulation; Strategic Management; Organisational Behaviour; and Science.