Master in Sustainable Natural Resource Management

This study programme intends to provide a wealth of knowledge, skills and abilities combining the technical-engineering and biological dimensions of natural, environmental and land resources management, with a view to achieving Green Deal and ecological transition goals. Graduates will understand the role of natural resources in economic activities, as well as mastering governance, design, conservation, regulation and restoration techniques that are required to ensure their sustainability, durability and protection. They will have high-level scientific and operational skills in the field of natural resources protection and enhancement; they will understand the technological and economic aspects of natural resources management, and will be equipped for performing systemic analysis of the environment in its biotic and abiotic components and in the related interactions.

Graduates in Sustainable Natural Resource Management: - Will have sound general knowledge and a good understanding of the scientific method required for the analysis of production and territorial systems and their interactions with the environmental system; - Will be able to assess natural resources and the environmental impacts of economic activities by creating models, including through conceptual and methodological tools used in the field of economics, law and environmental planning; - Will be able to use modern technologies for environmental assessment, monitoring and restoration, as well as for planning efforts aimed at regulating and protecting natural resources and common goods.

In their respective professional fields, graduates: - Must be able to provide technical-scientific support to the analysis and resolution of natural resources planning and public management issues, using economic, legal, analytical, statistical and IT tools; - Must be able to carry out studies, research and analysis in support of forest, environmental, production and landscape resources regulation, conservation and enhancement policies, as well as for local sustainable development; - Must be able to design and coordinate the design and implementation of green infrastructures for the protection and enhancement of the environment, forests, and rural and urban areas;

These skills must be enhanced by: - The ability to work with methodological and operational autonomy, including in a coordination or managerial role; - Good written and oral communication skills, both in their mother tongue and in English, including specialist lexicon; - Public speaking skills, both in their mother tongue and in English, to convey information, ideas, problems and solutions, share general information and specialist knowledge; - The ability to work in multidisciplinary working groups to produce reports and carry out projects.

Specialist in public management of natural resources

In the private sector, graduates can take on tasks of organization, evaluation, management and responsibility for problems that may involve an interaction between human activities and environmental systems. Graduates can enroll in the Register of Agronomists and Forestry Doctors, after passing the State exam. In the public sector, they can support administrations on environmental and territorial policies, with particular reference to sustainable planning and management of the territory and natural resources, environmental protection, analysis and monitoring of environmental systems, to the design and implementation of interventions for the defense and conservation of soil and water resources, for the restoration and conservation of biotic and abiotic components of ecosystems.

Skills associated with the function

Graduates in Sustainable Natural Resource Management will have a strong scientific and operational preparation in disciplines concerning the protection of natural resources and the technological and economic aspects of nature-based solutions for the territory (green and blue infrastructures, ecological restoration, environmental bioremediation, protection of environmental and biodiversity matrices). They will possess the cultural tools to address the systemic analysis of the environment in all its biotic and abiotic components and their interactions. Graduates will then be able to: - examine and solve problems of planning and management of natural resources; - design and coordinate interventions for the protection and enhancement of the environment and the territory, both agricultural-forestry and urban; - carry out basic and applied research and promotion and development of scientific and technological innovation for the planning, conservation and enhancement of natural resources and for sustainable development; - evaluate natural resources and environmental impacts of economic activities through the formulation of models and the use of conceptual and methodological tools provided by economics, law and environmental planning; - use modern technologies of investigation and monitoring of the environment and of the territory; - carry out complex and interdisciplinary coordination and management activities. At the end of the studies, the graduate in Sustainable Natural Resource Management will have developed skills for personal communication, multidisciplinary teamwork and judgment, on a scientific, technical, economic, human and ethical level. The graduate will be able to use the English language, in written and oral form, with specific reference to the disciplinary lexicons.

Career opportunities

Due to their skills, graduates will be able to find employment in: - national and regional bodies and services for the defense and development of the environment and the territory (State Technical Services, National and Regional Agencies and Bodies for the Environment and the Territory, Parks and Protected Areas, Watershed Authority, Technical Services and Regional, Provincial and Municipal Departments, Land Reclamation and Irrigation Consortia, Mountain Communities and Mountain Watershed Consortia); - laboratories, professional offices and service companies operating both in the fields of environmental and territorial planning and management, and in environmental monitoring and recovery; - companies operating in the environmental, forestry, green infrastructure and environmental remediation management; - companies operating in the protection and conservation of soil and water resources; - environment and territory division of large companies; - freelance professional in the environmental, agricultural, forestry, land and landscape sectors. The professional profile covers the following categories: - Agronomists and foresters - Architects, planners, landscape architects and specialists in the recovery and conservation of the territory - Biologists - Botanists - Ecologists - Microbiologists

The University of Milan is a public teaching and research university, which - with 8 faculties and 2 schools and a teaching staff of more than 2000 professors - is distinguished by its wide variety of disciplinary fields. A leading institute in Italy and Europe for scientific productivity, the University of Milan is the largest university in the region, with approximately 64,000 students; it is also an important resource for the socio-economic context of which it is a part. Milan is, in fact, the capital of Lombardy, one of the most dynamic and international regions in the European Union, a leader in the national economy that stands at the Italian forefront of research and development investments and commitment to technological innovation.

The University of Milan also possesses a remarkable artistic and cultural heritage that includes important historic buildings, inherited and acquired collections, archives, botanical gardens and the old Brera Observatory commissioned by Maria Teresa of Austria. The University’s departments are housed in important historic edifices in the center of Milan and in modern buildings in the area known as Città Studi (the City of Studies). Among the palazzos that house the University’s facilities are the old Ca' Granda (the big house) – a monumental complex from the 15th-century in the heart of the historical city centre - the 18th-century Palazzo Greppi designed by Giuseppe Piermarini – who built the Scala Theatre in Milan – and the 17th-century Sant’Alessandro College commissioned by the Arcimboldi family. The book collection , which is one of the richest in the region, is preserved in 47 libraries, while the APICE Centre collects rare and valuable book stocks and archives. The University also has a Choir and its own Orchestra, which actively contributes to the cultural life of the city and receives international acknowledgments on an increasingly frequent basis.