ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Paper Code: 
ENV 224
Credits: 
5
Contact Hours: 
75.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
15.00
Unit I: 
Environmental Protection
  • Provision in Constitution of India regarding Environment (major objectives of Article 48A and 51A)
  • International conventions and treaties
  • Montreal protocol 1987
  • Basel Convention (1989, 1992)
  • Ramsar Convention on Wetlands, 1971
  • Stockholm Conference 1972
  • The Rio earth summit1992
  • Kyoto protocol 1997
  • UN Summit on Millennium Development Goals 2000
  • Earth Summit at Johannesburg, 2002
  • Copenhagen Summit 2009
18.00
Unit II: 
Environmental Legislations

Salient features, Major objectives and amendments of:                                        

  • Wildlife Protection Act, 1972
  • Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1974
  • Forest Conservation Act, 1980
  • Air (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1981
  • The Environment (Protection) Act, 1986

 

12.00
Unit III: 
Environmental Management System
  •  Benefits, principles and elements of successful environmental management
  • Key aspects of the international standard ISO 14001
  • Auditing of EMS,
  •  Environmental Labeling

 

13.00
Unit IV: 
Environmental Education
  • Introduction
  • Goals, objectives and guiding principles
  • Classification of environmental education programmes
  • Environmental education in India
  • Ecotourism and impact of tourism on environment
17.00
Unit V: 
Environmental Problems
  • Ecopolitics, Carbon credits, Biopiracy, Bioterrorism
  • Developmental projects and Environmental issues (Dams, urban settlements and industrialization) with examples from India

 

Essential Readings: 
  • Arif, N. (1996) International Environmental Laws, New Delhi: Lancers Books.
  •  Birnie, P.W., and Boyle, Alan E. (1994) International Law and Environment, Oxford: Clarendon Press.
  • Lang, Winfried (Ed.) (1995) Sustainable Development and International Law, London: Grahm and Tort.
  • Khanna, Gopesh Nath (1990) Environment Problems and the United Nations, Ashish Publishing House, New Delhi.
  • Agarwal, Anil, Narain, Sunita and Sharma, Anju (Eds.) (1999) Global Environmental Negotiations I: Green Politics, Centre for Science and Environment, New Delhi.
  • Rajan, Mukund Govind (1997) Global Environmental Politics: India and the North-South Politics of Global Environmental Issues, New Delhi
  • Trivedi R.K., Handbook of Environmental Laws, Rules Guidelines, Compliances and
  • Standards, Vol I and II, Enviro Media
  • Study Material (Handbooks) of Sikkim Manipal University for Science Health and Technology for the Degree of Post Graduation in Ecology and Environment
Academic Year: 
2015-2016
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