ENV57950

This course is designed to help students understand regenerative agricultural systems from an integrated agroecosystem perspective and relate this perspective to their bioregion, the food system and agriculture. This course will provide the foundational theory and practice of agroecology with an emphasis on a systems approach to ecosystem processes, soil health, crop management, energy use, integration of animals into systems, complex agroecological landscape level system interactions, and indicators of sustainability. Various sustainable agricultural systems are examined.SPECIAL NOTES: