Renewable Resource Management
Rejuvenate disturbed land. Investigate greenhouse gas emissions from landscapes. Consider land, water and plant data through the lens of sustainability. Explore how management influences sustainable development. These are just a few of the opportunities available to you when you choose to major in Renewable Resource Management at the University of Saskatchewan.
What is Renewable Resource Management?
Sustainable use of our land, water and plant resources is increasingly recognized as a key societal goal in the 21st Century. Management of these resources requires a combination of applied science and management skills with an understanding of the broad societal context. Renewable Resource Management provides essential skills in resource management coupled with a broader understanding of the role of management in society.
Renewable Resource Management combines science, field study, economics, policy, and project design and implementation to produce a unique educational experience for students. Graduates will be grounded in key applied-science skills such as the use of computer-based decision support systems, identification of key landscape components and evaluation of economics. They will also understand how to apply these tools to specific resource issues throughout Western Canada.
The Bachelor of Science in Renewable Resource Management offers two specializations. The Resource Science specialization provides students with hands-on, practical experience in field measurement and assessment. The Resource Economics and Policy specialization involves the development of policies directly relevant to the management of bioresources.
Career Opportunities
The Bachelor of Science in Renewable Resource Management is an applied science degree that prepares students for careers in renewable resource management. The degree focuses on management of land, biotic and water resources and provides sufficient technical skills to ensure that graduates are highly employable in the resource sector.
The renewable and non-renewable resource sectors are booming in Western Canada, creating a growing market for graduates. A variety of careers await graduates in both governmental and non-governmental sectors:
- Bioremediation of Contaminated Land
- Ecological Goods and Services
- Environmental Advocacy
- Environmental Consulting and Regulating
- Environmental Research
- Forestry and Agroforestry
- Greenhouse Gas Mitigation
- Indigenous Peoples’ Resource Management
- Parks and Land Management
The U of S Advantage
The College of Agriculture & Bioresources has a long tradition of providing educational options that are clearly linked to successful careers for its graduates. The College’s strong ties with industry and reputation for producing well-rounded, quality graduates means that many employers turn here first when recruiting graduates.
Renewable Resource Management provides a learning environment with an innovative, hands-on approach to education, offered in superb teaching facilities. Students will benefit from the expertise of world-class faculty in the lecture hall, laboratory and field. Being located in a first-rate, research-intensive institution means that students benefit from professors who lead cutting-edge research in the science that underlies renewable resource management.
In Renewable Resource Management, students have the opportunity to experience their education in the field through our field courses. Employers like to hire our students because their field experience in soils, ecology and landscape management allows them to apply classroom knowledge to the real world. Besides that, they are a lot of fun and allow students to see and experience different parts of Saskatchewan.—Ken van Rees, Professor
Choose Your Program
Renewable Resource Management students can choose from two areas of specialization:
- Resource Science: The Department of Soil Science offers this specialization and has a long history of developing innovative field and laboratory based teaching. Field school provides third-year students with hands-on, practical experience in field measurement and assessment.
- Resource Economics & Policy: The Department of Bioresource Policy, Business & Economics offers this specialization that involves the development of policies directly relevant to the management of bioresources.
Students in both specializations participate in a Group Project Design course in the third year and then complete a resource management group project in the fourth year. The fourth-year project enables student to gain real-world experience as they develop their leadership and management skills.
Outstanding Faculty
The faculty members of Renewable Resource Management value both high-quality teaching and world-class research:
- Professor Ken van Rees is the Agri-Food & Innovation Fund Chair in Agroforestry & Afforestation. His research focuses on the development and implementation of agro-forestry in Saskatchewan. Dr. van Rees leads students on field trips to the boreal forest in several of his classes and has strong connections with the forestry sector in Western Canada and beyond.
- Professor Angela Bedard-Haughn holds a nationally funded University Faculty Award in the Department of Soil Science. Her research focuses on how land use affects nitrogen cycling in the environment.
- Professor Ken Belcher’s research focuses on the economic evaluation of ecological goods and services. His work has made key contributions to the understanding of how complex landscape features, like wetlands, can be valued and conserved in western Canadian landscapes.
- Professor Dan Pennock was awarded the University of Saskatchewan’s Master Teacher Award in 2006. Professor Pennock teaches the first-year introductory course in the Renewable Resource Management program and ensures that students are engaged with and enthused about their University experience from the outset of their program.
Scholarships & Bursaries
The College of Agriculture & Bioresources offers prospective students an outstanding awards program: six renewable entrance scholarships and up to twenty one-time $1000 entrance scholarships are offered to students directly from high school.
The Renewable Resource Management program is also developing transfer agreements with a number of western Canadian post-secondary institutions. To support these transfer students, the four renewable transfer scholarships are offered to students from another college or university each year. Awards are also available to students of Aboriginal descent who are entering studies in the College of Agriculture & Bioresources.
Admission Requirements
The following is a list of high school subjects required for admission. Please select the province/territory where you completed high school.
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