Attention: Please note that the following shown courses, are only those courses which are approved by the Vice-Rectorate for Education and offered by the respective department/institute for the current academic year.

Compulsory modules

Elective modules


Specialisation 1: Climate dynamics and climate impacts

Compulsory specialisation modules

Elective specialisation modules

Grand challenges in climate and biodiversity

Extreme events and Alpine hazards

Urban climate and environmental meteorology

Land-atmosphere interactions and land-climate dynamics

Impact of climate change on water resources

Carbon, nutrient, and water cycling in a changing climate

Specialisation 2: Social ecology of climate change

Compulsory specialisation modules

Elective specialisation modules

Land system science and climate change

Social metabolism and climate change

Climate politics, justice, and conflict

Environmental and climate history

Sustainable spatial development and energy transition

Specialisation 3: Climate crisis and transformative development

Compulsory specialisation modules

Gender, food systems and natural resources

Facilitating change for sustainable development

Political ecology of the climate crisis

Elective specialisation modules

Elective modules – General elective modules

Elective modules – General elective modules

Food systems transformation in the context of global change

Climate change and global aspects in planning and spatial development

Projects in climate science and transformation

Actor-centred perspectives and pathways towards transformation

One module selected from specialisations not chosen

Specialisation 1: Climate dynamics and climate impacts

Specialisation 2: Social ecology of climate change

Specialisation 3: Climate crisis and transformative development

Gender, food systems and natural resources

Facilitating change for sustainable development

Political ecology of the climate crisis

Climate justice and security

Applied development research and sustainable development goals

System science in development

Negotiating change for sustainable development

Farming systems in a changing climate

Climate scholar activism