FIELD AND LABORATORY INVESTIGATIONS IN AGROECOLOGY

Biographie de Stephen-R Gliessman

With graduate degrees in Botany, Biology, and Plant Ecology from the University of California, Santa Barbara, Stephen R. Gliessman has accumulated over 25 years of teaching, research, and production experience in the field of agroecology. His international experiences in tropical to temperate agriculture, small-farm to large-farm systems, traditional to conventional farm management, hands-on to academic activities, and organic to synthetic chemical. approaches have provided a unique combination of materials and perspectives to incorporate into the book. He was the founding director of the University of California, Santa Cruz, Agroecology Program, one of the first formal agroecology programs in the world, and is the Alfred Heller Professor of Agroecology in the Department of Environmental Studies at UCSC. He also dry farms organic wine grapes and olives with his brother in northern Santa Barbara County, California.