OUR ENVIRONMENT

Paper Code: 
BMA 313
Credits: 
2
Periods/week: 
2
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

This course will enable the students to:

  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 (COs):

Course Outcomes

 (at course level)

 

Learning and teaching strategies

Assessment Strategies

 
 

The students will:

  1. Master core concepts and methods from ecological and physical sciences and their application in environmental problem solving.
  2. Understand the transnational character of environmental problems and ways of addressing them, including interactions across local to global scales.
  3. Apply systems concepts and methodologies to analyze and understand interactions between social and environmental processes.
  4. Reflect critically about their roles and identities as citizens, consumers and environmental actors in a complex, interconnected world.

 

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

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

Ecosystem: Structure and Function

Concept of Ecosystem

Biotic and abiotic components of ecosystem

Food Chain and Food Web

Ecological Pyramids

Energy Flow

 

6.00

Environmental Pollution

Water Pollution: Definition, sources and effects

Air Pollution-Definition, sources and effects

Noise Pollution-Definition, sources and effects

 

6.00

Energy and Environment

Solar Energy and its uses

Wind Energy

Tidal Energy

Hydro Power

 

6.00

Environment and Human Health

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

 

 

ESSENTIAL READINGS: 

  • Bharucha Erach, The Biodiversity of India, Mapin Publishing Pvt. Ltd.,    Ahmedabad –380 013, India, Email:mapin@icenet.net

  • Groom, Martha J., Gary K. Meffe, and Carl Ronald Carroll. Principles of Conservation Biology. Sunderland: Sinauer Associates, 2006.
  • Grumbine, R. Edward, and Pandit, M.K. 2013. Threats from India’s Himalaya dams. Science, 339: 36-37.
  • McCully, P. 1996. Rivers no more: the environmental effects of dams (pp. 29-64). Zed Books.
  • McNeill, John R. 2000. Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth Century.
  • Odum, E.P., Odum, H.T. & Andrews, J. 1971. Fundamentals of Ecology. Philadelphia: Saunders.
  • Pepper, I.L., Gerba, C.P. & Brusseau, M.L. 2011. Environmental and Pollution Science. Academic Press.
  • Rao, M.N. & Datta, A.K. 1987. Waste Water Treatment. Oxford and IBH Publishing Co. Pvt. Ltd.
  • Raven, P.H., Hassenzahl, D.M. & Berg, L.R. 2012. Environment. 8th edition. John Wiley & Sons.
  • Rosencranz, A., Divan, S., & Noble, M. L. 2001. Environmental law and policy in India. Tripathi 1992.
  • Sengupta, R. 2003. Ecology and economics: An approach to sustainable development. OUP.
  • Singh, J.S., Singh, S.P. and Gupta, S.R. 2014. Ecology, Environmental Science and Conservation. S. Chand Publishing, New Delhi.
  • Sodhi, N.S., Gibson, L. & Raven, P.H. (eds). 2013. Conservation Biology: Voices from the Tropics. John Wiley & Sons.
  • Thapar, V. 1998. Land of the Tiger: A Natural History of the Indian Subcontinent.
  • Warren, C. E. 1971. Biology and Water Pollution Control. WB Saunders.
  • Wilson, E. O. 2006. The Creation: An appeal to save life on earth. New York: Norton.
  • Agarwal, K.C. Environmental Biology, Nidi Publ. Ltd. Bikaner.
  • Singh, R.B., Thakur, D.K. and Chauhan, J.P.S., RBD publications, Jaipur
  • Townsend C., Harper J, and Michael Begon, Essentials of Ecology, Blackwell Science
  • Odum, E.P. Fundamentals of Ecology. W.B. Saunders Co. USA.
  • Santra S.C., Environmental Science, New Central Book Agency Pvt. Ltd.
  • Singh Savindra, Environmental Geography, Prayag Pustak Bhawan
  • Belsare D.K., Introduction to Biodiversity, APH Publishing Corporation
  • Prabu P.C., Ecology and environmental Science, Avinash Paperbacks
  • Bhatia A.L., Kohli K.S, Ecology and Environmental Biology, RBD
  • Miller G.T., Environmental Science, Cengage Learning
  • Srivastava K.P., An Introduction to Environmental Studies, Kalyani Publishers
  • Sharma P.D., Ecology and Environment, Rastogi Publications
  • Rajagopalan R.,Environmental Studies, Oxford Press
Academic Year: 
2023-24
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