L 2 C 2
Teachers Continuous Evaluation: as per university examination norms. End Term Theory Examination: as per university examination norms.
Course outcomes
- The course is designed to impart basic knowledge of the environment and its components. [K2, K3]
- The course deals with creating awareness about the environmental resources, their sustainable management, current environmental problems faced by the world and their probable solutions.[K1, K2,K3,K4]
- A detailed understanding of the cause, effect and controlling measures of environmental pollution, waste management and related case studies. [K2,K3,K4]
- To understand and explore different approaches, government initiatives for protecting the environment, conserving ecosystems, and maintaining sustainability for the benefit of society. [K1, K2,K3]
Unit I (5 lectures)
Fundamentals: The Multidisciplinary nature of environmental studies: Definition, components, scope, and importance, need for public awareness; Ecosystems: Concept, Structure and function of an ecosystem, energy flow in ecosystems, food chain, food web, ecological pyramids, ecological succession; Introduction to types, characteristics features, structure and function of different ecosystems including forest, grassland, desert and aquatic ecosystem; Biodiversity: Introduction to biodiversity- definition, genetics, species, ecosystem diversity, bio-geographical classification of India, value of biodiversity-consumptive uses, productive, social, ethical, aesthetic and option values, India as a mega diversity nation, hot spots of biodiversity, threats to biodiversity– habitat loss, poaching of wild life, man wildlife conflicts and conservation of biodiversity- in-situ and ex-situ conservation.