Aquaculture and Marine Resource Management

Oceans, seas, estuaries and lakes are major providers of ecosystem goods and services such as food, tourism and coastal protection. In many cases, exploitation levels have bypassed the carrying capacity of these ecosystems leading to devastating effects on biodiversity and ecosystem functioning.

Do you want to learn about innovative and sustainable solutions to preserve marine biodiversity and its ecosystem functions? Are you going to tackle these issues, using an integrative approach to marine ecosystem management? Then this is the master’s for you.

Why this programme?

-      Combining natural sciences and social sciences to find integrative solutions

-      A lot of personal contact between teachers and students, informal study culture

-      Research institute Wageningen Marine Research is part of WUR. This makes it possible to provide unique training opportunities in the marine field.

-      Internationally oriented programme