Master in City Planning - Environmental Policy and Planning in Cambridge United States | Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Environmental Policy and Planning (EPP) program focuses on examining how communities preserve and allocate natural resources while advancing sustainable growth. Key research areas encompass science's influence on environmental decisions, addressing climate change, fostering global sustainability, managing ecosystems adaptively, ensuring environmental equity, crafting international agreements, regulatory frameworks, clean energy solutions, corporate environmental responsibility, health implications of planning decisions, infrastructure development, and resolving environmental conflicts. Learners explore connections between human-made and ecological systems, assess various planning methodologies, develop tools for measuring environmental changes, analyze policy frameworks, engage stakeholders in decision-making processes, and evaluate technological impacts across different governance levels from local to global scales.