Integrated and Interdisciplinary Approaches for Research and Education

Sustain the Environment through Natural Resource Management, Environmental Restoration and Conservation (Forests, Land, Water and Wildlife)

UF/IFAS programs provide strategies for the protection and enhancement of Florida's sensitive natural resources through the appropriate management of range, forest, agricultural lands and water bodies. The mission is to develop, promote, innovate and evaluate successful strategies for achieving economically and environmentally sustainable agricultures, forestry and natural systems.

Tropical forest resources and conservation

• Agroforestry
• Forest ecology
• Forest biology
• Forestry extension
• Temperate forests
• Urban forestry
• Working forests

Wildlife conservation and management

...in the context of aesthetic, ecological, economic and recreational values

• Conservation biology, modeling and management of wildlife populations
• Human dimensions of wildlife conservation
  • Wildland/urban interface
• Landscape ecology, habitat management and restoration
• Plant, animal, ecosystems interactions
• Program for Studies in Tropical Conservation

Managing water and coastal resources

(management, quality and quantity)

• Aquatic systems
• Coastal and marine resources
• Hydroecology
• Impacts of water use in agriculture
• Protection of natural water bodies
• Watershed management
  • watershed management and modelling
• Wetland management
  • Wetland and nutrient management
• Protection of natural water bodies

Environmental Services

• Carbon sequestration
• Climate change/impacts and effects on agriculture and forest ecosystems
• Energy/biomass/and waste
• Remediation of contaminate soils, water and aquifers
• Soil and landscape analysis
• Soil quality ecological indicators
• Management of nutrients, pesticides and wastes

Marketing, Trade and Resource Economics in natural resources

The International Agricultural Trade and Policy Center (IATPC) serves as a university-wide focal point and resource base for research on international agricultural trade and trade policy issues, facilitates dissemination of agricultural trade-related research results and publications; and encourages interaction between researchers, business and industry groups, state and federal agencies and policy makers in the examination and discussion of agricultural trade policy questions.

• Economics and policy
• Resource Economics

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