361712

Climatic and Edaphic Resources

First Semester 2007



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Course objectives: The students should be able to: - understand, quantitatively, current knowledge in climate and soil processes with respect to agricultural production, - understand, quantitatively, current knowledge of major plant processes with respect to crop production, - understand major principles and approaches in agricultural resources management, - use available information systems to assist the learning process.


Course Description: TThe course in focus on edaphic and climatic resources in relation to crop production. Climatic data including rainfall characteristics and distribution and evaportranspiration are examined. Simple water balance models are discussed with respect to potential growing season. Approaches to agroclimatic, land suitability assessment, and agro-ecological zoning of Thailand are introduced.

Instructor:  Attachai Jintrawat (attachai@chiangmai.ac.th)

Class meeting:  MCC Lecture Room 1  

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Course schedule:
 

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Final Exam


Recommended  Books:

·                     Tsuji, G.T., G. Hoogenboom, and P.K. Thornton (eds). 1998. Understanding Opions for Agricultural Production. Kluwer Academic Publishers in cooperation with ICASA. PO Box 17, 3300 AA Dordrecht, The Netherlands.

·                     Odum, H.T. 1996. Environmental Accounting: EMERGY and Environmental Decision Making. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York.

·                     Hanks, J., and J.T. Ritchie. 1991. Modeling plant and soil systems. Agronomy Monographs #31. Madison, USA.

Course Evaluation:

            2 midterms (20% each) Class assignments (20%) 1 Finall (40%)

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