Environmental Impacts of Agriculture
Environmental Studies and Sciences · 3 hrs Lecture
Offered: Fall Or Winter, Every Year
ENV-3612 prerequisites
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Description
The course provides a comprehensive knowledge on impacts of agriculture on the environment. It focuses on the global food production trends in meeting the growing population needs and the positive and negative impacts of agriculture on the environment, emphasizing the impacts on (a) the atmosphere and stratosphere resulting in global climate change and air pollution, (b) the hydrosphere resulting in water deficits and pollution, (c) the lithosphere soil degradation and (d) the biosphere through habitat degradation, overharvesting, and genetic pollution, causing biodiversity loss. The course also provides the conceptual knowledge required to produce food in an ecologically sustainable manner.
Requisite courses
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