The department also offers a Master of Science in Risk Management. The department offers a Doctorate in Risk Management and Societal Safety. The department also offers a Bachelor of Technology (engineering) with an emphasis in Urban Development and Design or Technical Planning.
The staff is organized in three research groups: Industrial Economics, Societal Safety, and Urban Development and Design. The staff possesses high academic qualifications; half of all staff members are qualified as professors. In addition there are many subsidized doctoral candidates that further contribute to the department.
The department research concentrates on several themes including risk analysis and management, industrial economics and petroleum economics, fisheries and aquaculture, city planning and urban design, and societal safety.
Our Urban Design Group is the managing partner of the Erasmus project Cultural Layers of Public Space.
SEROS – The Centre for Risk Management and Societal Safety is affiliated with the Department.
Offices are found in Kjølv Egelands House, fourth floor of the D-building at Ullandhaug.
