This module offers you a unique opportunity to be actively engaged in an action-learning platform, where knowledge and action are co-produced in collaboration with institutional partners and ordinary men and women in an urban region of the Global South. This platform enables you to integrate and apply the knowledge and skills developed throughout the rest of the programme and to develop the professional capacity and skills that self-reflective and forward looking practitioners require when working towards environmentally just transformations in challenging and complex contexts. The module runs over three terms and culminates with an overseas practice engagement in the third term. It allows you to acquire first-hand experience in the spatial exploration of a specific urban-region, examining the manifestation and struggles for environmental justice and sustainability under real circumstances, and participating in the development of strategies to contest broader socio-environmental injustices.

On completion of this module you will be able to gain:

An in-depth understanding and experience of the intellectual, practical and ethical questions underpinning any attempt to deal with processes affecting environmental sustainability and justice across urban regions in the Global South;
	The ability to understand the interests, relations and practices of different institutions, organisations and ordinary citizens in the socio-environmental processes that shape desirable and undesirable outcomes in urban regions;
	The capacity to undertake diagnosis and to facilitate, develop and communicate strategic interventions that are environmentally sustainable and just; and sensitive to the diversity of conditions that shape environmental injustice across class, gender, age, ethnicity, ability and place;
	Knowledge of and practical experience in the application of strategic techniques and skills for spatial diagnosis, participatory mapping, scenario and action planning; and a range of transferable skills and tools related to professional communication.