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PAPER IV: CONCEPTS OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE (Advanced Paper I)
Paper Code:
LSC 143 E
Credits:
4
Contact Hours:
60
12.00
Unit I:
Ecosystem processes
- Gaia hypothesis
- Ecosystem organization and homeostasis- Succession ,stability and diversity
- Energy Flows and Efficiencies
- Interactions amongst populations: intra- and interspecific interactions
- Biogeochemical cycles: Patterns and basic types of cycles
- Role of microbes in biogeochemical regulation.
- Disruption of biogeochemical cycles and its consequences
14.00
Unit II:
Natural Resource Conservation and Management
- Conservation of Natural Resources
- Living Resources: Biodiversity and Wildlife
- Water resources and water stress
- Methods of water conservation with special reference to Rajasthan.
- Land Resources
- Environmental impact of exploitation, processing and smelting of minerals.
Energy resources and their exploitation
12.00
Unit III:
Environmental Pollution: Monitoring and Control
- Instruments and methods for sampling gaseous pollutants
- Control of gaseous Contaminants
- Water quality criteria; objectives and steps in water quality management
- Waste water treatment
- Soil contamination by different anthropogenic activities
- Thermal pollution
- Radioactive pollution
10.00
Unit IV:
Environmental Education
- Goals, objectives and guiding principles
- Classification of environmental education programmes
- Environmental education in India
- Environment and sustainability
12.00
Unit V:
Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) and Environmental Auditing
- Definition of EIA and its purpose
- EIA process and methods
- Environmental Management Plan.
- Environmental Auditing , objectives and process;
- Environmental management system; Auditing of EMS
- Concept of CDM.
- Green marketing
- Eco- labeling
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