Human activity today exceeds the natural limits of major life support systems on the planet. Issues of sustainability are now pressing upon all organizations and social systems, thus requiring knowledgeable, impassioned leaders who have the moral clarity and conceptual tools to think critically about both local and global problems in all human systems. The Masters of Arts in Global Leadership and Sustainable Development program addresses some of the foremost issues facing humanity today: resource depletion and full environmental sinks into which waste is placed, climate change, and myriad stressors resulting from humanity’s growing ecological footprint.
Hawai‘i Pacific University's Master of Arts in Global Leadership and Sustainable Development (MA/GLSD) is designed for those exceptional students who want to learn to lead sustainability change initiatives in human systems and in so doing increase their longevity and health. Because “business as usual” is destroying the Earth’s life-support systems at an increasing rate, the new generation of leaders is required to have a holistic and historic understanding of the larger political, social, cultural, economic, and technological forces at work. These forces are having a detrimental impact on natural systems, reflected in declining forests, water supplies, fish stocks, and agricultural yields world wide. Learning the new science and art of sustainability is essential for corporate survival and for the long term health of communities and planet earth.
