ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Paper Code: 
PES 252
Credits: 
4
Contact Hours: 
60.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
10.00
Unit I: 
Disaster management
  • Introduction
  • Types of disaster                                                        
  •    Natural -Drought and famines, Floods, Earthquake
  •     Anthropogenic- Desertification, Land degradation, Deforestation
6.00
Unit II: 
Case Studies
  • Tsunami in Southern Asia
  • Bhopal Gas tragedy
  • Chernobyl Nuclear accident
14.00
Unit III: 
Waste management
  • Characteristics of Solid Waste
  • Sources and types of solid wastes
  • Composition of municipal solid wastes
  • Collection system
  • Transport means and methods
16.00
Unit IV: 
Techniques of solid waste management
  • Source reduction
  • Recycling
  • Recovery
  • Disposal of solid wastes-Plasma gasification sanitary  land filling, composting and incineration
  • Vermicomposting
  • Bioremediation and Phytoremediation
14.00
Unit V: 
Environmental Management Systems
  • Environmental management systems- Benefits, principles and elements of successful environmental management
  • Key aspects of the international standard ISO 14001.
  • Auditing of EMS,
  • Environmental Labeling.
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
  • Cunningham, W.P. Cooper, T.H. Gorhani, E & Hepworth, M.T. 2001, Environmental Encyclopedia, Jaico Publ. House, Mumabai, 1196p
  • Brunner R.C., 1989, Hazardous Waste Incineration, McGraw Hill
  • Mckinney, M.L. & School, R.M. Environmental Science Systems & Solutions,1996.
  •  Wanger K.D., Environmental Management. 1998  W.B. Saunders Co. Philadelphia
  • Radhakrishnan, R., Biomedical Waste Management,2006, New Delhi: Sumit Enterprises
  • Study Material(Handbooks) of Sikkim Manipal University for Science Health and Technology for the Degree of Post Graduation in Ecology and Environment
  • Odum, E.P. 1971. Fundamentals of Ecology. W.B. Saunders Co. USA
  • Hazardous Wastes and Solid Wastes- Lie, D.H.F. and Liptak, B.G. (2000), Lewis publishers, New York.

 

Academic Year: 
2015-2016
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