Faculty of Landscape and Society

About the faculty:

The Faculty of Landscape and Society is an interdisciplinary faculty working with national and global sustainable development. We house some of Norway's leading academic environments within public health science, international environment and development studies, urban and regional planning, landscape architecture, landscape engineering, and property development. The Faculty has 1300 students and 180 staff spread across five departments and an administration. We offer popular, future-focused Bachelor, Master and PhD degrees with an emphasis on practice-based learning, including internships, collaboration with industry, field courses and field work both in Norway and abroad. 

Dean: Per Martin Norheim-Martinsen

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• Study with us

  The Faculty of Landscape and Society provides education and research focused on sustainable development in its various forms. We use both natural and social science perspectives to focus on international and Norwegian issues. The Faculty offers some of Norway's leading academic environments within its fields.

  Bachelor's

  • International Environment and Development Studies (conducted in English)
  • Landscape Engineering

  Master's

  • Economics and Environmental Governance (2-year programme conducted in English)
  • Global Development Studies (2-year programme conducted in English)
  • Global Economy and Politics (2-year programme conducted in English)
  • International Environmental Studies (2-year programme conducted in English)
  • International Relations (2-year programme conducted in English)
  • Landscape Architecture (5-year programme)
  • Landscape Architecture for Global Sustainability (2-year programme conducted in English)
  • Property (5-year programme)
  • Property Development - full time (2-year programme)
  • Public Health Science (2-year programme)
  • Urban and Regional Planning (5-year programme)

  PhD

  • International Environment and Development Studies (conducted in English)
  • Society, Development and Planning (offered in English)
• Research

  Research centres and school

  • SITRAP Centre for Integrated and Transdisciplinary Education in Planning (Centre for Excellence in Education)
  • Virtual Reality Lab (VR-Lab)
  • Center for Community-Based Policing and Post-Conflict Police Reform
  • Empowered Futures: Global research school navigating the controversies of low-carbon energy transition
  • Centre for Evidence-Based Public Health: A JBI Affiliated Group
  • Centre for Landscape Democracy (CLAD)
  • NMBU Landscape Laboratory of Norway

  Research groups

  • Arctic-Space Sustainability Network
  • Climate Change, Food Systems, Agriculture and Development
  • Environmental Governance
  • Environmental Planning and Natural Resources Governance
  • Global Orders, Security and Crisis
  • Health-promoting local community development
  • Historical Archive of Norwegian Landscape Architecture (blog)
  • Network for Mobility and Social Sustainability
  • Political Ecology Forum
  • Portal for Nature and Human Health Research in Norway
  • Public health and social sustainability
  • Research groups at the Department of Property and Law
  • Rights, Accountability and Power in Development
  • Seed System Lab
  • Territorialization and Methods in Planning (TMP)
  • Urban Lab
  • Urban Sustainability

  Research projects

  • Searchable project list
    
    This list is for NMBU-led projects. For listings that include externally-led projects, please refer to the department webpages.

  Publications

  • Latest publications (nmbu.no)
  • Cristin listing of 2025 publications

  Master thesis presentations

  • Master thesis presentations - Faculty of Landscape and Society
• Our departments

  • International Environment and Development Studies (Noragric)
  • Landscape Architecture
  • Property and Law
  • Public Health Science
  • Urban and Regional Planning

News

Events

Contact us

Find the contact information for individual staff in the searchable staff list.

The faculty is housed in the following buildings on the NMBU campus:

Circus
Institute for Urban and Regional Planning
Institute for Property and Law
Faculty administration

Tivoli
Institute for Public Health Science
Institute for International Environment and Development Studies (Noragric)

Kassa Nova
School of Landscape Architecture

Postal address: Postbox number 5003, 1432 Ås
NMBU's central switchboard: +47 67 23 00 00

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