Our Environment

Paper Code: 
24BMA313
Credits: 
02
Periods/week: 
02
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 
  1. Learn the deteriorating status of the environment, study of environment has so far not received adequate attention in our academic programmers.
  2. Understand environmental effects and to follow sustainable development practices.
  3. Develop an interdisciplinary global understanding of ecological and environmental problems.
Course Outcomes: 

Course

Learning outcome

(at course level)

Learning and teaching strategies

Assessment Strategies

Course Code

Course

  title

24BMA 313

 

Our Environment

(Theory)

 

The students will:

CO103. Develop a comprehensive understanding of various ecological processes and environmental issues

CO104. Evaluate the holistic issues related to natural resources and sustainable development.

CO105. Develop critical thinking for shaping strategies for environmental protection and conservation of biodiversity, social equity and sustainable development.

CO106. Evaluate the consequences of human actions on the environment and ways to prevent the deterioration of the environment.

CO107. Reflect critically the roles, responsibilities, and identities of human beings as citizens, consumers and environmental actors in a complex, interconnected world.

CO108. Contribute effectively in course-specific interaction

 

 

Approach in teaching:

Interactive Lectures, Discussion, reading assignments, Group activities, Teaching using advanced video tools, Film screening.

 

Learning activities for the students:

Self-learning assignments, Effective questions, Seminar presentation, Giving tasks.

 

Assessment Strategies

Class test, Semester end examinations, Quiz, Solving problems in tutorials, Assignments, Presentation, Individual and group projects

 

6.00
Unit I: 

Definition, Scope and Importance of Environment

Scope of Environmental Studies and its applications

Importance with respect to the society

Relationship of Environmental Studies with other subjects (Multidisciplinary nature of Environment)

 

6.00
Unit II: 

Ecosystem: Structure and Function

Concept of Ecosystem

Biotic and abiotic components of ecosystem

Food Chain and Food Web

Ecological Pyramids

Energy Flow

 

6.00
Unit III: 

Environmental Pollution

Water Pollution: Definition, sources and effects

Air Pollution-Definition, sources and effects

Noise Pollution-Definition, sources and effects

 

6.00
Unit IV: 

Energy and Environment

Solar Energy and its uses

Wind Energy

Tidal Energy

Hydro Power

 

6.00
Unit V: 

Environment and Human Health

Water and airborne Diseases; Potential and widespread effects. -Risks due to chemicals in food

 

ESSENTIAL READINGS: 
  1. Bharucha Erach, The Biodiversity of India, Mapin Publishing Pvt. Ltd.,    Ahmedabad –380 013, India, Email:mapin@icenet.net
  2. Groom, Martha J., Gary K. Meffe, and Carl Ronald Carroll. Principles of Conservation Biology. Sunderland: Sinauer Associates, 2006.
  3. Grumbine, R. Edward, and Pandit, M.K. 2013. Threats from India’s Himalaya dams. Science, 339: 36-37.
  4. McCully, P. 1996. Rivers no more: the environmental effects of dams (pp. 29-64). Zed Books.
  5. McNeill, John R. 2000. Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth Century.
  6. Odum, E.P., Odum, H.T. & Andrews, J. 1971. Fundamentals of Ecology. Philadelphia: Saunders.
  7. Pepper, I.L., Gerba, C.P. & Brusseau, M.L. 2011. Environmental and Pollution Science. Academic Press.
  8. Rao, M.N. & Datta, A.K. 1987. Waste Water Treatment. Oxford and IBH Publishing Co. Pvt. Ltd.
  9. Raven, P.H., Hassenzahl, D.M. & Berg, L.R. 2012. Environment. 8th edition. John Wiley & Sons.
  10. Rosencranz, A., Divan, S., & Noble, M. L. 2001. Environmental law and policy in India. Tripathi 1992.
  11. Sengupta, R. 2003. Ecology and economics: An approach to sustainable development. OUP.
  12. Singh, J.S., Singh, S.P. and Gupta, S.R. 2014. Ecology, Environmental Science and Conservation. S. Chand Publishing, New Delhi.
  13. Sodhi, N.S., Gibson, L. & Raven, P.H. (eds). 2013. Conservation Biology: Voices from the Tropics. John Wiley & Sons.
  14. Thapar, V. 1998. Land of the Tiger: A Natural History of the Indian Subcontinent.
  15. Warren, C. E. 1971. Biology and Water Pollution Control. WB Saunders.
  16. Wilson, E. O. 2006. The Creation: An appeal to save life on earth. New York: Norton.
  17. Agarwal, K.C. Environmental Biology, Nidi Publ. Ltd. Bikaner.
  18. Singh, R.B., Thakur, D.K. and Chauhan, J.P.S., RBD publications, Jaipur
  19. Townsend C., Harper J, and Michael Begon, Essentials of Ecology, Blackwell Science
  20. Odum, E.P. Fundamentals of Ecology. W.B. Saunders Co. USA.
  21. Santra S.C., Environmental Science, New Central Book Agency Pvt. Ltd.
  22. Singh Savindra, Environmental Geography, Prayag Pustak Bhawan
  23. Belsare D.K., Introduction to Biodiversity, APH Publishing Corporation
  24. Prabu P.C., Ecology and environmental Science, Avinash Paperbacks
  25. Bhatia A.L., Kohli K.S, Ecology and Environmental Biology, RBD
  26. Miller G.T., Environmental Science, Cengage Learning
  27. Srivastava K.P., An Introduction to Environmental Studies, Kalyani Publishers
  28. Sharma P.D., Ecology and Environment, Rastogi Publications
  29. Rajagopalan R.,Environmental Studies, Oxford Press
Academic Year: 
2024-25
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