Sustainability Initiatives

What are we doing?

The University of Delaware’s College of Agriculture and Natural Resources (CANR) recognizes the importance of sustainability as an outcome in education campus-wide. CANR majors which teach and encourage sustainability include:

• Animal Science explores ways to produce food given the complex relationship between the health of domestic animals, humans and our shared environment.
• Environmental and Resource Economics focuses on allocating resources for the benefit of present and future generations and the international dimensions of such challenges across countries and cultures. 
• Food Science explores ways to grow, process, package, preserve and utilize food in ways that make the food safe, nutritious, affordable and available with a minimal environmental impact and waste generation.
• Insect Ecology and Conservation studys most abundant creatures on Earth—insects—and their interactions with other wildlife, humans, and the environment.
• Landscape Architecture combines science, technology, art and creative problem solving with a love of nature and the world outdoors. This professional program emphasizes design of outdoor spaces that are safe, aesthetically pleasing, and environmentally sustainable.
• Plant Science applies the principles of agriculture, biology and chemistry to plant life in horticultural, agricultural, and natural settings with an emphasis on maintaining a safe, aesthetically pleasing, and sustainable environment.
• Sustainable Food Systems emphasizes the fundamentals of plant, soil, food, social, and animal sciences, including basic chemical and mathematical principles, to the food system.
  
• Wildlife Ecology and Conservation examines all non-domesticated animals and the challenges they face sharing the planet with humans.