International Nature Conservation

Georg-August-Universität offers an integrated bi-national four-semester Master's programme in International Nature Conservation. The degree is a double degree offered jointly by Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen and Lincoln University, New Zealand, and can be held as Master of Science (M.Sc.) or Master of Science/Master of International Nature Conservation (M.Sc./M.I.N.C.).

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General Objective, Innovative Features and Rationales

Nature Conservation is the conservation, sustainable and equitable use of nature and its goods and services. The education programme provides a platform for an international professional career in nature conservation by enhancing postgraduate comparative studies at twinned Universities through contrasting issues between the southern and northern hemisphere.

Innovative features and rationales:

• links to the international initiatives within the Convention on Biological Diversity
• shared supervision based on collaborative research
• support and endorsement by an international advisory committee
• learning by contrasts, multi-experience and multi-location
• different countries, different problems, different solutions
• network of developed, developing and transformation countries
• practical problem solving at a local, regional and global scale
• holistic understanding of environmental management

The main rationale of the programme is learning by contrasts between countries and circumstances to meet contemporary demands of local, regional and global nature conservation issues