[Aerial Photos: Jane Bowles] ECOSYSTEM HEALTH MODULE
Major in Ecosystem Health
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For the first time in history, the increase in human population is placing greater demands on the capacity of our earth and is altering terrestrial and marine ecosystems on a global scale. These changes may already be having serious effects on ecosystem and human health, and there is growing concern that in coming decades the effects could be even more dramatic.
The Major in Ecosystem Health will allow students to explore the relationships between ecosystem and human health and our global environment. This alliance is rarely addressed but drawing upon expertise from the Departments of Biology, Geography and Political Science, students will be exposed to experimental and theoretical approaches to ecosystem health as well as to the economic factors and the policies that impact how humans interact with their environment.
