Dernières mises à jour en lien avec la COVID-19 disponibles ici.
Latest information about COVID-19 available here.
Note: This is the 2021–2022 eCalendar. Update the year in your browser's URL bar for the most recent version of this page, or .
Program Requirements
This specialization integrates environmental sciences and decision making with the economics of environment and sustainable development. It is designed to prepare students for careers in natural resource management and the analysis of environmental problems and policies.
This specialization is limited to students in the Major Agricultural Economics.
For information on academic advising, see:
Required Courses (12 credits)
-
AGEC 491 Research and Methodology (3 credits)
Overview
Agricultural Economics : Conceptual and philosophical foundations of research methodology, and the procedural aspects of planning, designing and conducting research in applied economics.
Terms: Fall 2021
Instructors: Thomassin, Paul (Fall)
-
ENVB 305 Population and Community Ecology (3 credits)
Overview
Environmental Biology : Interactions between organisms and their environment; historical and current perspectives in applied and theoretical population and community ecology. Principles of population dynamics, feedback loops, and population regulation. Development and structure of communities; competition, predation and food web dynamics. Biodiversity science in theory and practice.
Terms: Winter 2022
Instructors: McKinney, Melissa (Winter)
-
ENVB 437 Assessing Environmental Impact (3 credits)
Overview
Environmental Biology : Theories and procedures of assessing environmental impact. An examination of the environmental impact of existing programs and projects to examine their accuracy in predicting consequences and attenuating undesirable effects.
Terms: Winter 2022
Instructors: Hickey, Gordon (Winter)
-
ENVB 506 Quantitative Methods: Ecology (3 credits)
Overview
Environmental Biology : The process of formulating models of natural systems and confronting them with data, along with the necessary statistical computing skills. Emphasis on hands-on experience with current approaches for building, fitting, and comparing models.
Terms: Winter 2022
Instructors: Roy, Denis (Winter)
Complementary Courses (12 credits)
12 credits chosen from the following list:
-
AGRI 310 Internship in Agriculture/Environment (3 credits)
Overview
Agriculture : Internship on working farms or in other appropriate businesses of the agri-food/environment industries.
Terms: Fall 2021, Winter 2022, Summer 2022
Instructors: Begg, Caroline B (Fall) Begg, Caroline B (Winter) Begg, Caroline B (Summer)
Restriction: Not open to students who have taken AGRI 201D1/D2.
-
BREE 217 Hydrology and Water Resources (3 credits)
Overview
Bioresource Engineering : Measurements and analysis of components of the water cycle. Precipitation, evaporation, infiltration and groundwater. Analysis of hydrologic data. Hydrograph theory. Hydrologic estimations for design of water control projects; flood control and reservoir routing. Integrated watershed management and water conservation. Water management systems for environmental protection.
Terms: Winter 2022
Instructors: Qi, Zhiming (Winter)
3 lectures, one 2-hour lab
Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ABEN 217.
Measurements and analysis of components of the water cycle. Precipitation, evaporation, infiltration and groundwater. Analysis of hydrologic data. Hydrograph theory. Hydrologic estimations for design of water control projects; flood control and reservoir routing. Integrated watershed management and water conservation. Water management systems for environmental protection.
This course carries an additional course charge of $36.75 to cover transportation costs for two field trips, which may include a visit to a national weather station and a trip to gain hands-on experience on monitoring water flow in streams.
-
BREE 327 Bio-Environmental Engineering (3 credits)
Overview
Bioresource Engineering : An introduction to how humans affect the earth's ecosystem and projections for the needs of food, water, air and energy to support the human population. Ecologically-reasonable coping strategies including biofuels, bioprocessing, waste management, and remediation methods.
Terms: Fall 2021
Instructors: Lefsrud, Mark; Goldstein, Benjamin (Fall)
An introduction to how humans affect the earth's ecosystem and projections for the needs of food, water, air and energy to support the human population. Ecologically-reasonable coping strategies including biofuels, bioprocessing, waste management, and remediation methods.
Restrictions: U2 students and above. Not open to students who have taken ABEN 305.
This course carries an additional course charge of $11.31 to cover transportation costs for field trips which may include a solar installation site and if registrations permit, a bio-ethanol plant. The fee is refundable only during the withdrawal with full refund period.
-
ECON 225 Economics of the Environment (3 credits)
Overview
Economics (Arts) : A study of the application of economic theory to questions of environmental policy. Particular attention will be given to the measurement and regulation of pollution, congestion and waste and other environmental aspects of specific economies.
Terms: Fall 2021
Instructors: Boichev, Georgi (Fall)
Restriction: Not open to students who have taken 154-325 or 154-425
-
ECON 326 Ecological Economics (3 credits)
Overview
Economics (Arts) : Macroeconomic and structural aspects of the ecological crisis. A course in which subjects discussed include the conflict between economic growth and the laws of thermodynamics; the search for alternative economic indicators; the fossil fuels crisis; and "green'' fiscal policy.
Terms: Fall 2021, Winter 2022
Instructors: Naylor, Robin Thomas (Fall) Babcock, Michael (Winter)
-
ECON 405 Natural Resource Economics (3 credits)
Overview
Economics (Arts) : Topics include: Malthusian and Ricardian Scarcity; optimal depletion of renewable and non-renewable resources; exploration, risk and industry structure, and current resources, rent and taxation. Current public policies applied to the resource industries, particularly those of a regulatory nature.
Terms: Winter 2022
Instructors: Cairns, Robert D (Winter)
-
ENVB 222 St. Lawrence Ecosystems (3 credits)
Overview
Environmental Biology : Integrative field biology course about the biodiversity and ecology of terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems within the St. Lawrence Lowlands. Research projects about the natural history of the regional flora and fauna. Fundamentals of community, ecosystem and landscape ecology.
Terms: Fall 2021
Instructors: McKinney, Melissa (Fall)
Fall
This course carries an additional charge of $18.86 to cover the cost of transportation (bus rental) for local field trips. The fee is refundable only during the withdrawal with full refund period.
-
ENVB 301 Meteorology (3 credits)
Overview
Environmental Biology : The physical processes underlying weather. Topics include: the atmosphere - its properties (structure and motion), and thermodynamics (stability, heat and moisture); clouds and precipitation; air masses and fronts; mid-latitude weather systems and severe weather.
Terms: Fall 2021
Instructors: Strachan, Ian (Fall)
Fall
Restriction: Not open to students who have taken NRSC 201
-
ENVB 529 GIS for Natural Resource Management (3 credits)
Overview
Environmental Biology : Applications of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and spatial analysis techniques to the presentation and analysis of ecological information, including sources and capture of spatial data; characterizing, transforming, displaying spatial data; and spatial analysis to solve resource management problems.
Terms: Fall 2021
Instructors: Cardille, Jeffrey; Adamchuk, Viacheslav (Fall)
-
ENVR 203 Knowledge, Ethics and Environment (3 credits)
Overview
Environment : Introduction to cultural perspectives on the environment: the influence of culture and cognition on perceptions of the natural world; conflicts in orders of knowledge (models, taxonomies, paradigms, theories, cosmologies), ethics (moral values, frameworks, dilemmas), and law (formal and customary, rights and obligations) regarding political dimensions of critical environments, resource use, and technologies.
Terms: Fall 2021, Winter 2022
Instructors: Kosoy, Nicolas; Gobby, Jen (Fall) Vaccaro, Ismael; Hirose, Iwao (Winter)
Fall - Macdonald Campus; Winter - Downtown
Section 001: Downtown Campus
Section 051: Macdonald Campus
-
MGPO 440 Strategies for Sustainability (3 credits)
Overview
Management Policy : This course explores the relationship between economic activity, management, and the natural environment. Using readings, discussions and cases, the course will explore the challenges that the goal of sustainable development poses for our existing notions of economic goals, production and consumption practices and the management of organizations.
Terms: Fall 2021, Winter 2022
Instructors: Robitaille, Jad; Khoury, Rabih (Fall) Khoury, Rabih (Winter)
Restriction: Open to U2, U3 students only
-
MICR 331 Microbial Ecology (3 credits)
Overview
Microbiology (Agric&Envir Sc) : The ecology of microorganisms, primarily bacteria and archaea, and their roles in biogeochemical cycles will be discussed. Microbial interactions with the environment, plants, animals and other microbes emphasizing the underlying genetics and physiology. Diversity, evolution (microbial phylogenetics) and the application of molecular biology in microbial ecology.
Terms: Winter 2022
Instructors: Driscoll, Brian T (Winter)
-
NRSC 333 Pollution and Bioremediation (3 credits)
Overview
Natural Resource Sciences : The environmental contaminants which cause pollution; sources, amounts and transport of pollutants in water, air and soil; waste management.
Terms: Fall 2021
Instructors: Whyte, Lyle; Basu, Niladri (Fall)
Fall
3 lectures
Restriction: Not open to students who have taken WILD 333
-
WILD 421 Wildlife Conservation (3 credits)
Overview
Resource Development : Study of current controversial issues focusing on wildlife conservation. Topics include: animal rights, exotic species, ecotourism, urban wildlife, multi-use of national parks, harvesting of wildlife, biological controls, and endangered species.
Terms: Winter 2022
Instructors: Lovat, Christie (Winter)
Winter
3 lectures
Restriction: Not open to students who have taken NRSC 421.
Faculty of Agricultural & Environmental Sciences—2021-2022 (last updated Sep. 1, 2021) (disclaimer)
