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Second level graduate in Environmental Sciences.

Functions

Curriculum: “Environmental impact assessment and monitoring”
The Master's degree graduate in Environmental Sciences will be able to collaborate, with scientific and professional tasks, in the process of environmental impact assessment (VIA) of projects of implementation works and strategic environmental assessment (VAS) and in consultancy activities in the process of obtaining European and international certifications (EMAS, UNI EN ISO, Ecolabel, Ecoaudit), in the design and internal verification of the environmental management system of companies and the drafting of the Environmental Declaration for Certification, as well as in the chemical, physical, biological, geological investigation of environmental systems
in the monitoring of geophysical, meteorological and climatic variables and in the sustainable use of fish resources.

Curriculum: “Development and Planning Sustainable”
The Master's Degree Graduate in Environmental Sciences will be able to collaborate with scientific and professional tasks in the planning and management of different environmental contexts: terrestrial and marine-coastal, urban, peri-urban and extra-urban, with skills that allow him to carry out functions such as the analysis of the processes that characterize the landscape for the purpose of developing sustainable territorial plans, the enhancement and management of surface and underground landscape-environmental assets and resources, the planning of green areas (nature-based solutions), sustainable energy planning, sustainable management of agriculture, fishing and aquaculture, the environment in the context of meteorological-climatic, chemical and geological risks as well as the sustainable management of production processes in the chemical industry and chemical analysis activities.

Skills

Curriculum: “Environmental impact assessment and monitoring”
The Master's Degree Graduate in Environmental Sciences will have scientific skills in different areas of environmental sciences and technologies such as for example the field of research, development, production and services at public and private bodies or companies operating in the industrial, agri-food, environmental management and monitoring, environmental accounting and renewable energy sectors. The graduate will have good knowledge of the scientific method and good ability to apply it with adequate knowledge of the regulatory aspects. The skills acquired will allow him/her to collaborate in the drafting of Impact Assessments, Strategic Environmental Assessments (SEA) and Environmental Certification, and will also be able to carry out analysis and monitoring activities of weather-climatic variables and environmental resources, environmental systems and the territory.

Curriculum: “Sustainable Development and Planning”
The Master's Degree Graduate in Environmental Sciences will have scientific skills in environmental planning and management in the field of research, development, production and services at public and private bodies that interface and operate in the field of sustainable territorial, landscape and environmental planning. The graduate will have good knowledge of the scientific method and good ability to apply it with adequate knowledge of the regulatory aspects. The skills acquired will allow him to collaborate in the drafting of urban, territorial, environmental, sustainability, landscape or sector plans at various scales, as well as in the definition, implementation and management of integrated programs and projects for territorial and environmental transformation and regeneration and for the valorization of typical features.

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The employment opportunities of the Graduate in Environmental Sciences concern technical activities and collaboration with local administrations, public bodies and private companies in the field of:

Curriculum: “Environmental impact assessment and monitoring”
- participation in the environmental impact assessment (VIA) process of implementation works projects and strategic environmental assessment (VAS), through the implementation of environmental impact studies, with the identification of environmental macro-sensitivities, the identification of the processes modifying the environment, natural and anthropic, existing and foreseen by the projects, the identification of all types of interactions existing and foreseen between the proposed projects and the conditions environmental;
- consultancy activities for the process of obtaining European and international certifications (EMAS, UNI EN ISO, Ecolabel, Ecoaudit), as well as the design and internal verification of the environmental management system of companies and the drafting of the Environmental Declaration for Certification;
- design and management of environmental monitoring and control systems promoted by the public administration, by production systems and by private entities;
- design and management of water treatment plants, air pollution mitigation and soil correction;
- monitoring of meteorological and climatic variables of the territory;
- participation in projects aimed at the sustainable use of fish resources;
- promotion and coordination of environmental policy initiatives, environmental education and information and the formation of a critical and proactive consensus of citizens to solve the problems posed by the territory according to the criteria of sustainability, prevention and environmental ethics;
- design and implementation of territorial information systems and geo-data-bases.

Curriculum: “Sustainable Development and Planning”
- participation in the territorial planning process, through the implementation of multidisciplinary environmental studies, useful for identifying macro-sensitivities and environmental pressures that play a supporting role in territorial planning;
- consultancy in the drafting of action plans for sustainable energy, corporate environmental sustainability plans, green purchasing plans, sustainability plans for public bodies;
- participation in projects aimed at the sustainable use of the environment and its resources and the valorization of the typical features of the territory;
- - identification and evaluation of meteorological-climatic and geological risks;
- promotion and participation in environmental education and information projects;
- participation in the drafting of sustainability plans for industries and/or service providers for the part concerning chemical analysis activities and synthesis of chemical products;
- technical and managerial support for companies operating in the sector of energy produced by plants that exploit renewable energy resources.

The professions regulated by the Law to which the Graduate in Environmental Sciences Environmentalists can access after an exam and/or internship are (Presidential Decree 328/2001 and Ministerial Decree 386/2007 Annex 2):
- territorial planner (section A professional register of the order of architects, planners, landscape architects and conservationists)
- biologist (section A professional register of the order of biologists);
- geologist (section A professional register of the order of geologists);
- agronomist and forestry doctor (section A professional register of the order of agronomists and forestry doctors).