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For Compulsory To Undergraduate Course Students

This document outlines the curriculum for an undergraduate environmental studies course. The course is divided into 5 units that will be taught over 15 weeks. Unit 1 introduces environmental studies as a multidisciplinary field and discusses environmental ethics. Unit 2 covers natural resources, including forests, water, food, energy, and land. Unit 3 examines ecosystems, energy flow, and different ecosystem types. Unit 4 addresses biodiversity, conservation efforts, and threats to biodiversity. Finally, Unit 5 focuses on various forms of environmental pollution, solid waste management, and disaster management.

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For Compulsory To Undergraduate Course Students

This document outlines the curriculum for an undergraduate environmental studies course. The course is divided into 5 units that will be taught over 15 weeks. Unit 1 introduces environmental studies as a multidisciplinary field and discusses environmental ethics. Unit 2 covers natural resources, including forests, water, food, energy, and land. Unit 3 examines ecosystems, energy flow, and different ecosystem types. Unit 4 addresses biodiversity, conservation efforts, and threats to biodiversity. Finally, Unit 5 focuses on various forms of environmental pollution, solid waste management, and disaster management.

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ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

For compulsory to Undergraduate course students

EVNS: 111 A CREDITS: 2

Unit 1: Multidisciplinary nature of environmental studies [3 lectures]


1. Definition, scope and importance; Need for public awareness.
2. Environmental ethics: Issues and possible solutions
3. Environment Protection Act.

Unit 2: Natural Resources, Renewable and Non-renewable Resources [5 lectures]


1. Forest resources: Use and over-exploitation, deforestation, Timber extraction.
2. Water resources: Use and over-utilization of surface and ground water, floods, drought,
dams-benefits and problems.
3. Food resources: World food problems, changes caused by agriculture and overgrazing,
effects of modern agriculture,
4. Energy resources: Renewable and non-renewable energy sources, use of alternate energy
sources.
5. Land resources: Land as a resource, land degradation, soil erosion and desertification.

Unit 3: Ecosystems [7 lectures]


1. Concept of an ecosystem.
2. Structure and function of an ecosystem.
3. Energy flow in the ecosystem.
4. Food chains, food webs and ecological pyramids.
5. Characteristic features, structure and function of
a. Forest ecosystem
b. Grassland ecosystem
c. Desert ecosystem
d. Aquatic ecosystems

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Unit 4: Biodiversity and its conservation [7 lectures]
1. Introduction – Definition: genetic, species and ecosystem diversity.
2. Biogeographical classification of India, India as a mega-diversity nation
3. Value of biodiversity: consumptive use, productive use, social, ethical, aesthetic values.
4. Hot-sports of biodiversity.
5. Threats to biodiversity: habitat loss, poaching of wildlife, man-wildlife conflicts.
6. Conservation of biodiversity: In-situ and Ex-situ conservation of biodiversity.

Unit 5: Environmental Pollution [8 lectures]


1. Definition, cause, effects and control measures of:
a. Air pollution
b. Water pollution
c. Soil pollution
e. Noise pollution
f. Thermal pollution
g. Nuclear hazards
2. Solid waste management: Causes, effects and control measures of urban and industrial
wastes.
3. Disaster management: floods, earthquake, cyclone and landslides.

Text Books:
1. Odum, E. P., Barrett G., W., 2011, Fundamentals of Ecology, 5ed., Cengage Learning.
ISBN-13: 978-8131500200
2. Sharma, P. D., 2011. Ecology and Environment, Rastogi Publications. ISBN-13: 978-
8171339655

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