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 To impart knowledge about the environment importance and to inculcate responsibility
towards its protection and maintenance.
 To make individual aware of the issue and understand the reason behind environmental
degradation.
 Rationale utilization of a renewable sources
 To encourage individuals to seek out knowledge about environment and all its
components.
 Evaluation of environmental measures, skill, and capacity building.

LEARNING OUTCOMES:

This course will enable the students to:
 To prepare students to analyze major environmental concerns and work towards
sustainability
 Enable students to develop a sense of belongingness with nature
 Develop critical thinking for scientific, social, economic, and legal strategies for
environmental issues
 To analyze how anthropogenic activities affects or cause threat to environment and living
conditions of species in the planet.

THEORY (30 Hours)

UNIT I: (6 Hours)

Global environmental issues and polices

Climate change, Ozone destruction and global warming, acid rain, ENSO, forest conservation,
water conservation, rain water harvesting, watershed management, international programs: earth
summit, UNFCCC, Montreal protocol, CBD, Kyoto protocol, International efforts for
environmental protection, National action plan on climate change and its major missions, Ramsar
convention, Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC). Constitutional Provisions for protecting
environment- Articles 48(A), 51 A (g). Environmental laws: EPA, 1986, The Air (Prevention and
control of pollution) Act, 1981; The water (Prevention and control of pollution) Act 1974; Forest
(Conservation) Act 1980, The wildlife protection act 1972.

UNIT II: (6 Hours)

Biodiversity and conservation

Biodiversity: levels of biological diversity, values of biodiversity, Hot-spot of biodiversity, Mega-
biodiversity countries, Threat to Biodiversity, Threatened and endemic species of India, IUCN
Red list criteria and categories, Conservation of biodiversity: Ecosystem services: ecological,
economical, social, ethical, aesthetical and informational values. Case studies: Indian wildlife and
biodiversity issues, movements and projects. Project tiger, Project elephant, vulture breeding
program, project great Indian Bustard, Silent valley movement, Western Ghats movement.

UNIT III: (6 Hours)

Earth and earth surface processes
Origin of earth and system processes, minerals and rocks: rock cycle, lithification and
metamorphism; three rock laws; weathering; physical, biogeochemical processes; erosion,
atmosphere: evolution of earth‘s atmosphere, atmosphere ocean interface, atmosphere land

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