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ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES SYLLABUS (NonEngineering Students) Module 1: Environmental Studies – Introduction ►Definition, <strong>Sc</strong>ope and Importance ►Measuring and defining environmental development: indicators (3 lectures) Module 2: Basic Principles of ecosystem functioning ►Concept of an ecosystem ►Structure and function of an ecosystem ►Producers, consumers and decomposers ►Energy flow in the ecosystem ►Food chains, food webs and ecological pyramids ►Introduction, types, characteristic features, structure and functions ▪ Forest ecosystem ▪ Grassland ecosystem ▪ Desert ecosystem ▪ Aquatic ecosystems (ponds, streams, lakes, rivers oceans, estuaries) (8 lectures) Module 3: Environment and Natural Resources ►Forest Resources ▪ Use and overexploitation ▪ Deforestation ▪ Timber extraction ▪ Mining and damstheir effects on forests and tribal people. ▪ Case studies ►Water Resources ▪ Use and overutilization of surface and ground water ▪ Floods, droughts ▪ Conflicts over water ▪ Damsbenefits and costs ▪ Mineral resources ▪ Use and exploitation ▪ Effects of extracting and using mineral resources ▪ Case studies
►Food resources ▪ World food problems ▪ Changes caused by agricultural and overgrazing ▪ Effects of modern agriculture, fertilizerpesticide problems, water logging, and salinity ▪ Case studies. ►Energy resources ▪ Growing energy needs ▪ Renewable and non renewable energy sources ▪ Use of alternate energy sources ▪ Case studies ►Land resources ▪ Land as a resource ▪ Common property resources ▪ Land degradation ▪ Soil erosion and desertification (10 lectures) Module 4: Biodiversity and its Conservation ►IntroductionGenetic, species and ecosystem diversity ►Biogeographical classification of India ►Value of biodiversity consumptive and productive use, social, ethical, aesthetic and option values. ►Biodiversityglobal, national and local levels ►Hotspots of biodiversity ►Threats to biodiversity – habitat loss, poaching of wildlife, manwildlife conflicts ►India as a megadiversity nation ►Endangered and endemic species of India ►Conservation of biodiversityInsitu and Exsitu conservation (6 lectures) Module 5: Environmental Pollution ►Welfare Measures and Environmental Values ►Definition and Classification of Environmental Values ►Valuation Methods (4 lectures) Module 6: Environmental Economics ►Economic approach to environmental preservation and conservation ►Property rights and externalities ►Management of Natural Resources ►Economics of natural resources ▪ Forestry ▪ Water resources
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