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UMBC is launching an exciting new program: Global Studies!

Development, Health, and the Environment prepares students to identify and analyze the challenges and opportunities posed by economic development and globalization, and the goals of improving human health and sustaining the environment.

Sustainable development involves enhancing the quality of life for the human population, protecting the environment, and meeting the growing needs of people today without reducing the ability of future generations to meet their own goals. This track embraces economic, environmental, and social sustainability as well as anticipates and addresses major trends such as climate change, natural resource depletion, food scarcity, and urban expansion.

Recognizing the interconnectedness of the global economy and the desire of those in developing countries to improve living standards, development that is sustainable involves changes in the developed world as well.

Learn more: http://globalstudies.umbc.edu/cirriculum/development-health-and-the-environment/