Concepts of Environmental Science

Paper Code: 
LSC 143 E
Credits: 
4
Contact Hours: 
60.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
12.00
Unit I: 
Ecosystem processes
  • Gaia hypothesis
  • Ecosystem organization and homeostasis- Succession ,stability and diversity
  • Energy Flows and Efficiencies
  • Interactions amongst populations: intra- and interspecific interactions
  • Biogeochemical cycles: Patterns and basic types of cycles
  • Role of microbes in biogeochemical regulation. 
  • Disruption of biogeochemical cycles and its consequences

 

14.00
Unit II: 
Natural Resource Conservation and Management
  • Conservation of Natural Resources
  • Living Resources: Biodiversity and Wildlife
  • Water resources and water stress
  • Methods of water conservation with special reference to Rajasthan.
  • Land Resources
  • Environmental impact of exploitation, processing and smelting of minerals.
  • Energy resources and their exploitation
12.00
Unit III: 
Environmental Pollution: Monitoring and Control
  • Instruments and methods for sampling gaseous pollutants
  • Control of gaseous Contaminants
  • Water quality criteria; objectives and steps in water quality management
  • Waste water treatment
  • Soil contamination by different anthropogenic activities
  • Thermal pollution
  • Radioactive pollution

 

10.00
Unit IV: 
Environmental Education
  • Goals, objectives and guiding principles
  • Classification of environmental education programmes
  • Environmental education in India
  • Environment and sustainability

 

12.00
Unit V: 
Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) and Environmental Auditing
  • Definition of EIA and its purpose
  • EIA process and methods
  • Environmental Management Plan.
  • Environmental Auditing , objectives and  process;
  • Environmental management system; Auditing of EMS
  • Concept of CDM.
  • Green marketing
  • Eco- labeling
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