This unit investigates the local, regional and global context of industries dependent on fundamental ecological processes including aquaculture, fisheries, forestry, farming, wastewater reprocessing, wetlands and other specialist bioindustries such as biofuel production. Students explore how manipulation of the biogeochemistry of natural systems allows us potentially to create a vast range of sustainable products, but with often unpredicted outcomes and impacts, on both constructed and natural systems. In each system, students first define a set of core biological and ecological process controls, and then explore how harnessing of key processes via manipulation and technological... -- Course Website
Instructor: Winthrop Professor Anya Waite
Prerequisites: enrolment in the Master of Professional Engineerng; for pre-2012 courses: none
