Overview
This Nitrogen Management Essentials Professional Certificate offered by The University of Edinburgh includes the following short courses: Nitrogen: A Global Challenge, and Nitrogen-related Field Measurements.
Key facts
The nitrogen challenge is one of the biggest environmental challenges of the 21st century. If we meet this challenge it can help us to tackle the climate, biodiversity and food crises. If we fail then it will make these threats worse.
This Professional Certificate will provide you a basic understanding of effective nitrogen management. Regardless of your background, you will learn core concepts about nitrogen and global change, their challenges and opportunities.
Key topics include food security, climate change, air pollution, water pollution, and human health.
Programme Structure
What you'll learn:
- Learn about the global nitrogen challenge, how nitrogen has helped human civilization to develop, and how its misuse now threatens us.
- Examine the solutions to the global challenges of nitrogen and how we can better manage this precious element.
- Get guided training in everything from greenhouse gas flux measurements, through ammonia flux measurements, to a number of plant and soil nitrogen measurements.
- Gain insight into laboratory analyses accompanied by detailed descriptions of procedures and calculations.
Key information
Duration
- Part-time
- 2 months
Start dates & application deadlines
Language
Delivered
- Self-paced
Campus Location
- Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Disciplines
Management Studies View 110 other Short Courses in Management Studies in United KingdomWhat students do after studying
Academic requirements
We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.
English requirements
We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.
Other requirements
General requirements
- This programme is Introductory therefore no previous knowledge is required.
- To obtain additional information about the programme, we kindly suggest that you visit the programme website, where you can find further details and relevant resources.
Tuition Fees
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International Applies to you
Applies to youNon-residents77 USD / full≈ 77 USD / full -
Domestic Applies to you
Applies to youCitizens or residents77 USD / full≈ 77 USD / full