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                    
  1. Natural -Drought and famines, Floods, Earthquake
  2. 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: 
  1. Arif, N. (1996) International Environmental Laws, New Delhi: Lancers Books.
  2. Birnie, P.W., and Boyle, Alan E. (1994) International Law and Environment, Oxford: Clarendon Press.
  3. Lang, Winfried (Ed.) (1995) Sustainable Development and International Law, London: Grahm and Tort.
  4. Khanna, Gopesh Nath (1990) Environment Problems and the United Nations, Ashish Publishing House, New Delhi.
  5. Agarwal, Anil, Narain, Sunita and Sharma, Anju (Eds.) (1999) Global Environmental Negotiations I: Green Politics, Centre for Science and Environment, New Delhi.
  6. Rajan, Mukund Govind (1997) Global Environmental Politics: India and the North-South Politics of Global Environmental Issues, New Delhi
  7. Trivedi R.K., Handbook of Environmental Laws, Rules Guidelines, Compliances and
  8. Standards, Vol I and II, Enviro Media
  9. Study Material (Handbooks) of Sikkim Manipal University for Science Health and Technology for the Degree of Post Graduation in Ecology and Environment
  10.  Cunningham, W.P. Cooper, T.H. Gorhani, E & Hepworth, M.T. 2001, Environmental Encyclopedia, Jaico Publ. House, Mumabai, 1196p
  11. Brunner R.C., 1989, Hazardous Waste Incineration, McGraw Hill
  12. Mckinney, M.L. & School, R.M. Environmental Science Systems & Solutions,1996.
  13. Wanger K.D., Environmental Management. 1998  W.B. Saunders Co. Philadelphia
  14. Radhakrishnan, R., Biomedical Waste Management,2006, New Delhi: Sumit Enterprises
  15. Study Material(Handbooks) of Sikkim Manipal University for Science Health and Technology for the Degree of Post Graduation in Ecology and Environment
  16. Odum, E.P. 1971. Fundamentals of Ecology. W.B. Saunders Co. USA
  17. Hazardous Wastes and Solid Wastes- Lie, D.H.F. and Liptak, B.G. (2000), Lewis publishers, New York.
     
Academic Year: 
2019-2020
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