This program is open only to students in the B.Sc. or B.Sc.(Ag.Env.Sc.) Major Environment.
How can we manage our renewable resources sustainably?
Renewable resource management is an emerging field that focuses on the ecosystem structures and processes required to sustain the delivery, to humanity, of ecosystem goods and services such as food, clean water and air, essential nutrients, and the provision of beauty and inspiration. Renewable resource management recognizes humans as integral components of ecosystems and is used to develop goals that are consistent with sustainability and ecosystem maintenance.
The Renewable Resource Management Concentration provides students with an understanding of: 1) the interactions between physical and biological factors that determine the nature and dynamics of populations and entities in the natural environment; 2) the ways in which ecosystems can be managed to meet specific goals for the provision of goods and services; 3) the economic and social factors that determine how ecosystems are managed; 4) the ways in which management of natural resources can affect the capability of natural ecosystems to continue to supply human needs in perpetuity; and 5) the approaches and technologies required to monitor and analyze the dynamics of natural and managed ecosystems.
See alsoÌýInformation for StudentsÌýfor details concerning:
- Suggested First Year Courses
- Taking courses onÌýboth campuses
- ENVR course sections - beware!
Pre-requisite or Co-Requisite Courses for this Concentration (7 cr)
(M)
Ìý
or
or CEGEP equivalent (objective OOXU)AND
(M)
or
or CEGEP equivalent (objective OOXV)
Program Requirements
NOTE: Students are required to take a maximum of 30 credits at the 200 level and a minimum of 12 credits at the 400 level or higher in this program. This includes Core and Required courses.
Core: Required Courses (18 credits)
Core: Complementary Course — Senior Research Project
(3 credits*)
(3 cr)
(6 cr) (in Panama)
(in Barbados)
* Only 3 credits will be applied to the program; extra credits will count as electives.
Concentration Complementary Courses (42 credits)
9 credits in basic principles of ecosystem processes and diversity
(M)
or (M)
or
(M)
or
(not offered 2024-2025)
or (M)
6 credits statistics and GIS methods courses
(M)
or (not offered; replace with MATH 203 or equivalent)
(M)
or
6 credits advanced courses on ecosystem components
(in Panama)
(not offered)
(M)
(M)
6 credits advanced courses on ecological processes
(in Barbados)
(M)
or
(M)
(M) (offered fall 2024 and alternate years)
(M)
(M)
(M)
6 credits in social processes
(M)
or
(offered alternate years, in May term)
(in Barbados)
(offered alternate years; in Panama)
9 credits ecosystem components or management of ecosystems
(M) (offered alternate years; in Panama)
(offered alternate years, in May term)
Ìý
(in Africa)
(M)
(M)
(M)
(M)