Careers and stakeholders

Specialist in public management of natural resources
In the private sector, graduates can take on tasks of organization, evaluation, management and responsibility for problems that may involve an interaction between human activities and environmental systems. Graduates can enroll in the Italian Register of Agronomists and Forestry Doctors, after passing the State exam. In the public sector, they can support administrations on environmental and territorial policies, with particular reference to sustainable planning and management of the territory and natural resources, environmental protection, analysis and monitoring of environmental systems, to the design and implementation of interventions for the defense and conservation of soil and water resources, for the restoration and conservation of biotic and abiotic components of ecosystems.

Skills associated with the function
Graduates in Sustainable Natural Resource Management will have a strong scientific and operational preparation in disciplines concerning the protection of natural resources and the technological and economic aspects of nature-based solutions for the territory (green and blue infrastructures, ecological restoration, environmental bioremediation, protection of environmental and biodiversity matrices). They will possess the cultural tools to address the systemic analysis of the environment in all its biotic and abiotic components and their interactions. Graduates will then be able to:
- examine and solve problems of planning and management of natural resources;
- design and coordinate interventions for the protection and enhancement of the environment and the territory, both agricultural-forestry and urban;
- carry out basic and applied research and promotion and development of scientific and technological innovation for the planning, conservation and enhancement of natural resources and for sustainable development;
- evaluate natural resources and environmental and ecological impacts of economic activities;
- use modern technologies of investigation and monitoring of the environment and of the territory in their biotic and abiotic constituents;
- carry out complex and interdisciplinary coordination and management activities on environmental and forestry issues.
At the end of the studies, the graduate in Sustainable Natural Resource Management will have developed skills for personal communication, multidisciplinary teamwork and judgment, on a scientific, technical, economic and legal level.
The graduate will be able to use the English language, in written and oral form, with specific reference to the disciplinary lexicons.

Career opportunities
Due to their skills, graduates will be able to find employment in:
- national and regional bodies and services for the defense and development of the environment and the territory (State Technical Services, National and Regional Agencies and Bodies for the Environment and the Territory, Parks and Protected Areas, Watershed Authority, Technical Services and Regional, Provincial and Municipal Departments, Land Reclamation and Irrigation Consortia, Mountain Communities and Mountain Watershed Consortia);
- laboratories, professional offices and service companies operating both in the fields of environmental and territorial planning and management, and in environmental monitoring and recovery;
- companies operating in the environmental, forestry, green infrastructure and environmental remediation management;
- companies operating in the protection and conservation of soil and water resources;
- environment and territory division of large companies;
- freelance professional in the environmental, agricultural, forestry, land and landscape sectors;
- institutions carrying out scientific research.