Graduates from the Socioeconomic Development and Environment career receive an integral education that permits them to understand the structure, behavior and dynamics of natural and social systems. As professionals they have the skills to conceive, design and execute actions targeted at the comprehension, conservation and productive management of natural resources and the environment to further human and territorial development from an interdisciplinary perspective.

The career’s academic program has four focuses: hydrology and watershed management, environmental technology, biodiversity and socioeconomic development. Our graduates develop knowledge and skills in these areas in order to contribute to the solution of Latin American environmental and development problems.

Has professional skills in environmental management, such as:

1. Environmental strategic vision. A Zamorano-trained environmental engineer understands environmental trends and how to define strategic courses of action that have a positive impact on the environment and mitigate the negative impact caused by human interventions.
2. Environmental negotiation. Facilitates equitable conflict resolution between different parties in disputes over natural resource use and management.
3. Environmental management and research. Possesses the knowledge necessary to undertake and lead sustainable development initiatives or those aimed at productive natural resource management.

Our graduate are specialized in the following areas:

1. Hydrology and watershed management. They have specialized knowledge about watershed management with the most advanced methods and equipment for making decisions and implementing them.
2. Biodiversity. They understand the global themes involved in biodiversity, as well as its individual components, including the taxonomic and systematic focus as well as the functional. It is essential to understand and analyze the relations between human beings and biodiversity so that its use and conservation are guided by knowledge of applied forestry science, including ecological and production aspects.
3. Environmental technology. They have knowledge about the global environmental situation and application of technology in response to the challenges of sustainable production in different disciplines, as well as the about the use of economic parameters for decision making.
4. Socioeconomic development. They understand the different factors that affect a territory in biological, social and economic terms and can apply instruments that affect these factors.

They have skills such as:

1. Team work. They have the ability to interact with interdisciplinary research teams, social outreach and communities in general in order to achieve specific objectives
2. Communication. They can express themselves  in different forms by using the best personal and professional resources
3. Self-teaching  and self-formation. They learn by permanently reviewing and updating their models for interpreting reality and the explanatory paradigms in their discipline.
4. Analytic processing. They understand a given situation and know how to break it down into its individual components and identify their implications step by step.