
Masters in Natural Resource Management
The two-year program, Master of Arts in Natural Resource Management and Sustainability Studies, is an initiative of the Social Centre, Ahmednagar. Since the Earth Summit at Rio, held in 1992, and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and SDGs, the issues of natural resource management and sustainability have become significantly more urgent.
The program attempts to provide a base for further interdisciplinary research and learning on issues emerging from the interface of human society with the geophysical and biological environment, both in the local and global sense. The various forms and aspects of this interaction are examined in detail in the program. The emphasis is on understanding these interactions’ ecological, economic, and socio- Political sustainability in light of developmental objectives and ecological constraints. Hence this course tries to interface with disciplines like Environmental science, Social work education’s discipline of practice base methods of professional skills to bring desired social change for better rural and urban communities and society. This course combines the theoretical aspects of subjects of environment science and practice-based methods of social work professional educational discipline to equip students of the course to bring more comprehensive social change.
The graduates from this program will have a wide range of capabilities that will enable them to work and intervene in several possible Locations, including development organizations, government agencies, departments and projects, academia, and other civil society and community-based organizations. It also provides the necessary background for students to work in the field of climate change and sustainability with industry, both in the public and private sectors. The ample space devoted to their dissertation work enables students to direct their learning toward working in any thematic location of their choice in the future.
This program is based on an intensive four-semester schedule that combines theoretical perspectives and substantial fieldwork.
This course has a total of 80 credits. It has 20 courses, each worth four credits, and it takes 60 hours to teach over four semesters.