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Name	Steve Gliessman	Title	Alfred Heller Professor of Agroecology
Phone	831-459-4051	Email	gliess@ucsc.edu
Organization/Business		Occupation	Researcher/Extension/Educator
Web Site	www.agroecology.org	Workgroup(s)	Organic Farming Workgroup
County(ies)	Monterey San Benito San Luis Obispo Santa Barbara Santa Cruz	Commodities	Grape Olives Strawberry Vegetables

Expertise and Research Interests	Organic Soil Management organic nutrient and disease management, dry farm systems Integrated Organic Cropping Systems Strawberry/vegetable/covercrop rotation, Dry-farmed intercropped grapes and olives Organic Pest Management allelopathic weed management Organic Economics / Marketing direct marketing Organic Social Relations integrated indicators of food system sustainability
Publications / Products	Gliessman, S.R. 1998. Agroecology: Ecological Processes in Sustainable Agriculture. CRC/Lewis, Boca Raton, FL. 347 pp. Gliessman, S.R. 1999. Un enfoque agroecologico en el estudio de la agricultura tradicional. En: Gonzalez-Jacome, A. y S. Del Amo Rodriquez (eds.) Agricultura y Sociedad en Mexico: Diversidad, Enfoques, y Estudios de Caso. Plaza y Valdes Editores, Mexico D.F., Mex. pp. 25-31. Gliessman, S.R. 2000. Field and Laboratory Investigations in Agroecology. Lewis Publishers, Boca Raton, FL. Gliessman, S.R. (ed.) 2001. Agroecosystem Sustainability: Developing Practical Strategies. Advances in Agroecology. CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida. Santos, R. H.S., S.R. Gliessman, and P.R. Cecon. 2002. Crop interactions in broccoli intercropping. Biological Agriculture and Horticulture 20:51-75. Gliessman, S.R. 2002. Making the conversion to sustainable agroecosystems: getting from here to there with agroecology. California Certified Organic Growers Newsletter 13: 6-8. Francis, C., G. Lieblein, S. Gliessman, T.A. Breland, N. Creamer, R. Harwood, L. Salomonsson, J. Helenius, D. Rickerl, R. Salvador, M. Wiendehoeft, S. Simmons, P. Allen, M. Altieri, J. Porter, C. Flora, and R. Poincelot. 2003. Agroecology: The Ecology of Food Systems. J. Sustainable Agriculture 22:99-118. Gliessman, S.R. 2004. Agroecology and Agroecosystems. In: Agroecosystems Analysis. Agronomy Monograph no 43. Chapter 2. pp. 19-29.