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The College of Natural Resources and Environment was established in July 2000 through merging the Department of Environmental Science, the Department of Soil&water Conservation and Desertification Control, Shaanxi Soil and Fertilizer Institute, and Shaanxi Institute of Loess Plateau Management.

The college has a state key discipline --soil science, a level I discipline of utilization of agricultural resources authorized to confer doctoral degree and a postdoctoral research station in utilization of agricultural resources. And the college now has 9 Ph.D. programs, namely the soil science, the plant nutrition, the soil&water conservation and desertification combating, the ecology, the agricultural environment protection and food safety, the land resources and space information technology, the environmental science, the fertilizer science and the resources and environmental biology, 11 master programs, namely the plant nutrition, the soil science, the soil & water conservation and desertification combating, the ecology, the environmental science, the environmental engineering, the agricultural environment protection and food safety, the land resources and space information technology, the cartography and geological information systems, the fertilizer science and the resources and environmental biology, and 5 undergraduate programs, namely the resources and environmental science, urban and rural planning & resource management, the soil & water conservation and combating desertification, the environmental science, the geological information system (GIS). It has been a new college characterized by combining agrology and environmental science.

At present, the total number of faculty members is 174, of whom 16 are supervisors for Ph.D. students, 36 supervisors for M.S. students, 19 professors and researchers, and 40 associate professors and associate researchers, forming a strong force academically proficient in teaching and research. The college owns the Heyang Dry-land Agricultural Experimental Station, the Chunhua and Fufeng Comprehensive Experimental Bases, the Mizhi Loess Plateau Experimental Station, the National Monitoring Base for Loess Soil Fertility and Fertilizer Efficiency, and the Yulin Desertification Combating Base. The experimental bases and stations have satisfactorily met the need of teaching, research and students' practices. Equipped with over 1000 sets of advanced instruments and facilities, the college carries out tasks of demonstration, technical training and teaching in 20 subjects for undergraduates and postgraduates from 9 colleges of Northwest A&F University.

In addition to teaching, the college has paid great attention to research. The college has successfully undertaken 150 national, ministerial and provincial projects and made great achievements in more than 100 scientific research projects. Of these achievements, 10 have been granted National Science and Technology Progress Awards, 50 Ministerial or Provincial Science and technology Progress Awards and 40 other ones. More than 40 monographs and textbooks and 800 papers have been published in the journals at home and abroad