Ecosystems (Structure and Function):
Forest, Desert, Wetlands, Riverine, Oceanic and Lake.
Biodiversity:
Types, Value; Hot-spots; Threats and Conservation of biodiversity, Forest Wealth, and Deforestation.
Advances in Energy Systems (Merits, Demerits, Global Status and Applications):
Hydrogen, Solar, OTEC, Tidal and Wind.
Natural Resource Management (Concept and case-studies):
Disaster Management, Sustainable Mining, Cloud Seeding, and Carbon Trading.
Environmental Pollution (Sources, Impacts, Corrective and Preventive measures, Relevant Environmental Acts, Case-studies):
Surface and Ground Water Pollution; Noise pollution; Soil Pollution and Air Pollution.
Waste Management & Public Health Aspects:
Bio-medical Wastes; Solid waste; Hazardous wastes; E-wastes; Industrial and Municipal Sludge.
Global Environmental Concerns (Concept, policies and case-studies):
Ground water depletion/recharging, Climate Change; Acid Rain; Ozone Depletion; Radon and Fluoride problem in drinking water; Resettlement and rehabilitation of people, Environmental Toxicology.
Latest Developments in Environmental Pollution Mitigation Tools (Concept and Applications):
G.I.S. & Remote Sensing, Environment Impact Assessment, Environmental Management Systems, ISO14001; Environmental Stewardship- NGOs.
Field work:
Visit to an Environmental Engineering Laboratory or Green Building or Water Treatment Plant or Waste water treatment Plant; ought to be Followed by understanding of process and its brief documentation.
Course Outcomes:
At the end of the course, students will be able to:
• CO1: Understand the principles of ecology and environmental issues that apply to air, land, and water issues on a global scale,
• CO2: Develop critical thinking and/or observation skills, and apply them to the analysis of a problem or question related to the environment.
• CO3: Demonstrate ecology knowledge of a complex relationship between biotic and abiotic components.
• CO4: Apply their ecological knowledge to illustrate and graph a problem and describe the realities that managers face when dealing with complex issues.
Question paper pattern:
• The Question paper will have 100 objective questions.
• Each question will be for 01 marks
• Student will have to answer all the questions in an OMR Sheet.
• The Duration of Exam will be 2 hours.
Textbook/s
1 Environmental Studies Benny Joseph Tata Mc Graw – Hill. 2 ndEdition, 2012
2. Environmental Studies S M Prakash Pristine Publishing House, Mangalore 3 rdEdition, 2018
3 Environmental Studies – From Crisis to Cure R Rajagopalan Oxford Publisher 2005
Reference Books
1 Principals of Environmental Science and Engineering Raman Sivakumar Cengage learning, Singapur. 2 ndEdition, 2005
2 Environmental Science – working with the Earth G.Tyler Miller Jr. Thomson Brooks /Cole, 11thEdition, 2006
3 Text Book of Environmental and Ecology Pratiba Sing, Anoop Singh& Piyush Malaviya Acme Learning Pvt. Ltd. New Delhi. 1 stEdition