Can multinational businesses combine long-term sustainability with profitability? Will the transition to clean energy be defeated by a lack of suitable infrastructure and the policy to implement it?

Addressing the challenges facing sustainable development from an interdisciplinary perspective is a key focus of this BSc. Students will be studying at our acclaimed Centre for Environment and Sustainability (CES). First established in 1992, it boasts an international reputation as a hub for interdisciplinary research in sustainability.

Students will be taught by CES academics, who have experience in academia, industry and the public sector. Their research interests and industry experience includes:

• Clean energy and clean technology
  
• Consumption and production
• Corporate environmental behaviour
• Life cycle assessment
• Policy development
• Sociology of the environment
• Sustainable prosperity
• Vertical farming
• Water and sanitation.

In addition, students will be taught by tutors from other departments in the University who work at the interface between their core discipline and sustainability. Participating departments include: Biosciences and Medicine, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Law, Politics, Psychology, Sociology, and Surrey Business School.