Conservation Science of Agro-environment

In this class, five instructors give lectures on the impact of agriculture on the environment. In the first half of the class, we talk about the environmental impact of agriculture. In the second half, we touch upon agriculture’s multifaceted functions and debate the preservation of the agricultural environment.

sustainable production, environment, agriculture, diversity

1. Orientation (Saitō)
2. The environmental burden in agricultural production (1): History (Saitō)
3. The environmental burden in agricultural production (2): Chemical fertilizers (Saitō)
4. The environmental burden in agricultural production (3): Global warming (Saitō)
5. The environmental burden in agricultural production (4): Herbicides and pesticides (Watanabe)
6. The environmental burden in agricultural production (5): Disinfectants (Katō)
7. The concept of biodiversity (Watanabe)
8. The environment and diversity of rice paddies (Hagiwara)
9. The environment and diversity of farmland and grassland (Saitō)
10. The diversity of microbes in cropland (Katō)
11. The diversity of pathogenic microbes (Katō)
12. Microbes and environmental conservation (Katō)
13. The multifaceted functions of farmland and the conservation of seminatural areas (Watanabe)
14. Integrated pest management (IPM) (Watanabe)
15. The light and shade of environment-conserving agriculture (Matsuura)
Class questionnaire

Syllabus (Japanese site only)