This course combines these two complementary fields, providing you with rigorous economics training as well as environmental social science learning. This is a major/minor programme, with around 75 per cent of this programme in environment, and the remaining 25 per cent in economics. Many staff members from the Department are directly engaged with policy debates, sitting on government panels or being contracted to do analysis for different policy issues. You’ll learn not just academic theory, but why policies issues matter and why they’re relevant. You’re also able to see first-hand the impact LSE research has on the real world. You will acquire a broad range of social scientific skills and knowledge with which to tackle and understand environmental problems. In the second and third year of the programme you will be able to choose from a range of options, tailoring your studies to your areas of interest. You will also have the opportunity to undertake your own individual research project in the final year. Recent graduates have gone on to work in all areas of environmental policy and economics at the local, national and international level, whether in the public sector for government departments and agencies, in the private sector for industry and environmental/management consultancies, or in the NGO sector for pressure groups and think tanks. A number of recent graduates have also gone on to further study at graduate level.