Environmental Studies

By Dr. Monica Jain | Devi Ahilya Viswavidyalaya, Indore

Learners enrolled: 8423

Mother earth is the most Precious gift of universe; no citizen of the earth can afford to remain aloof form the issues related to the environment. The U.G.C. decided to address the issue of environment at the undergraduate level.

“Environmental studies for undergraduates” is a common core module syllabus for environmental science at the undergraduate level and being used by every university in the country. The environmental core module has been integrated in to the teaching programmes of all undergraduate courses in higher education.

The objective of this course is to provide knowledge about multidisciplinary nature of environment, various sources of natural energy, ecosystem, social issues and the environment, etc. Students will be evaluated upon achievement in terms of academic excellence. Students will also be able to understand about the various environmental issues and problems associated with the human population and the environment.

Summary

Course Status :	Completed
Course Type :	Core
Language for course content :	English
Duration :	12 weeks
Category :	Multidisciplinary
Credit Points :	4
Level :	Undergraduate
Start Date :	22 Jul 2021
End Date :	31 Oct 2021
Enrollment Ends :	15 Sep 2021
Exam Date :

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Course layout

Weeks Weekly Lecture Topics

Week 1: CONCEPT OF ENVIRONMENT, SOIL FORMATION, NATURAL RESOURCE : FOREST, THE STORY OF WATER, TREASURE OF EARTH

Week 2: GLOBAL FOOD POSITION : CHALLENGES AND SOLUTIONS, RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES : ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT, ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT, PART-1, DAMS : BOON OR CURSE, FRESH WATER ECOLOGY, RESERVOIR ECOSYSTEM, PART-1

Week 3: RESERVOIR ECOSYSTEM, PART-2, THE CONCEPT OF ECOSYSTEM, ENERGY FLOW IN ECOSYSTEM, ECO-FRIENDLY AGRICULTURE, DESERT ECOSYSTEM, FOREST ECOSYSTEM, ECOLOGICAL SUCCESSION, FOOD CHAIN, FOOD WEB AND TROPHIC LEVELS, ECOLOGICAL PYRAMIDS & ENERGY FLOW IN ECOSYSTEMS, GRASS LAND ECOSYSTEM

Week 4: BIO-GEOGRAPHICAL CLASSIFICATION OF INDIA, NATURAL DYE, BIODIVERSITY : AN INTRODUCTION ,BIODIVERSITY AND ITS CONSERVATION, BIODIVERSITY AT GLOBAL NATIONAL AND LOCAL- LEVEL,THREATS TO BIODIVERSITY, VALUE OF BIODIVERSITY, ENDANGERED COMMON PLANT AND ANIMAL SPECIES

Week 5: INDIA AS - A MEGA-DIVERSITY NATION, TYPES OF NOISE POLLUTION, AIR POLLUTION, SOIL POLLUTION, EFFECTS OF NOISE POLLUTION, ROLE OF AN INDIVIDUAL IN PREVENTION OF POLLUTION, LAND SLIDES

Week 6: CYCLONE, FLOOD, EARTH QUAKES AND DISASTER MANAGEMENT, THE CHANGING NATURE OF EARTH

Week 7: BASICS OF MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE, MANAGEMENT OF MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE, AGONY OF SEAS, THE PRICE OF PANACEA - BIOMEDICAL WASTE, EFFECTS AND CONTROLS OF WATER POLLUTION

Week 8: NUCLEAR HAZARDS, INDUSTRIES & WASTE, DEALING WITH INDUSTRIAL WASTE, ENVIRONMENTAL RIGHTS, ENVIRONMENTAL THREATS, PUBLIC ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS, ETHICS OF ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION, ENVIRONMENTAL VALUES

Week 9: INDIAN LEGISLATIVE STEPS TO PROTECT OUR, ENVIRONMENT, WATER MANAGEMENT PRACTICES, SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, URBAN PROBLEMS RELATED TO ENERGY, RESETTLEMENT AND REHABILITATION

Week 10: ENVIRONMENT AND CLIMATE CHANGE, SEX RATIO, POPULATION EXPLOSION, IMPACT OF HUMAN POPULATION ON ENVIRONMENT, INFECTIOUS DISEASES AND WATERBORNE DISEASES

Week 11: HIV/AIDS, CANCER & THE ENVIRONMENT, ENVIRONMENT AND HUMAN HEALTH, CHEMICALS IN FOOD, TYPHA : A BIO-REMEDIAL PLANT, CASTOR BEAN, PINUS

Week 12: MALARIA, MACHLA : A SERENE VILLAGE, THE SECRET OF TASTE – CHILLI, COMMON AVENUE – TREES, COMMON VILLAGE TREES, FLOWER - THE BEAUTIFUL GIFT OF NATURE, SILK COTTON TREE : KAPOK, COTTON YARN

Books and references

1- Bharucha, Erach (2005):"Text Book of Enviromental Studies for Undergraduate Courses", Universities Press (India) pvt ltd, Hyderabad, India.

2- IGNOU – 1991 – AHE-1/5 – Human Environment Management of Environment - Indira Gandhi open university, New Delhi

3- IGNOU 1995 – FST-1/4 Foundation course in Science and Technology “Environment and Resource” - Indira Gandhi open university, New Delhi

4- Kothari Dr. Milind – 2005 – Environmental Education – Universal Publication, Agra.

Instructor bio

Dr. Monica Jain

Devi Ahilya Viswavidyalaya, Indore

Dr. Monica Jain has been working as a Professor and Head, Dept. of Life Sciences at Maharaja Ranjit Singh College of Professional Sciences, Indore (MP). She holds seventeen years of under-graduate and fifteen years of post-graduate teaching experience of Life Science courses. Her area of specialization is in Plant Biotechnology, which involves research on Mutagenesis and production of novel traits", In vitro regeneration" and Enhancement of secondary metabolites in plant cell suspension cultures. Dr. Jain has various research publications as research papers in peer reviewed international journals, as posters and oral paper presentations in national and international level conferences.