Environmental Studies (AECC-2)

Environmental

Studies (AECC-2)

Anadi Roy Chowdhury Department of Physiology

Serampore College

B.Com. Sem II Hons. (CBCS), 2021 Friday: 7-8pm

Total Marks-100(Credit -2)

50 Theory

7 Units (Syllabus)

MCQ Type

Online Examination by CU

30 Project (25/07/21 - 30/07/21)

Study / Survey Report

Soft Copy ( 25 pages, pdf file)

Email to [email protected]

10 Internal Assessment (23/07/21 at 2PM)

10 Attendance

Anadi Roy Chowdhury B.Com. Sem II Hons. (CBCS), AECC2 2021

mailto:[email protected]

Theory (MCQ Type)


50 Theory/ 10 Internal Assessment

Introduction to environmental studies

Ecology and Ecosystems

Natural Resources

Biodiversity and Conservation

Environmental Pollution

Environmental Policies and Practices

Human Communities and the Environment


Introduction to Environmental Studies

Environment

Environmental Studies

Sustainable development


United Nations Conference on

the Environment in Stockholm,1972

United Nations Conference on Environment and

Development in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1992

Ecology and Ecosystems (Unit – 2)

Basic Concepts

Forest, Grassland, Desert and Aquatic

Ecosystems


Natural Resources (Unit – 3)

Renewable and Non-renewable resources

Nonconventional energy sources

Deforestation

Water


Biodiversity and Conservation (Unit – 4)

Global biodiversity hot spots

India as a mega-biodiversity nation

Endangered and endemic species of India

Threats to biodiversity

Conservation of biodiversity


34 Hot spots

10 Biogeographical Region

4 Hot spots, 7.8% species

Asiatic Lion, One Horned Rhino, Snow

Leopard, Red panda, Bengal Tiger etc.

o Red data book

o Joint Forest Management

o People Biodiversity Register

Environmental Pollution (Unit – 5)

Air, water, soil, noise and marine pollution

Solid waste management


Black foot disease

Minamata disease

Itai Itai disease

Cholera

Hepatitis A, E etc.

Environmental Policies and Practices (Unit – 6)

Climate change, Global warming, Ozone layer

depletion, Acid rain etc.

Environment Laws

International agreements

Protected area network etc.


Kyoto protocol (1987)

Montreal Protocol (1997) etc.

Wild life Protection Act (1972)

Forest Conservation Act (1980)

Environment Protection Act (1986) etc.

Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)

Human Communities and the Environment (Unit-7)

Human population growth

Environmental Disaster

Environmental movements

Environmental ethics

Environmental education and public awareness


Bhopal 1984 (MIC)

Chernobyl 1986 (nuclear accident)

Carrying capacity, Capacity

dependent population growth,

Family planning etc.

Bishnois (1730), Chipko (1973),

Silent valley movement etc.

It’s our home ..

Project Work


Project/ Field work

Cover Page

Title

CU Roll and Registration Number

Semester, Stream, Year

Index

Page number

Photo/Chart number


Project/ Field work

Introduction ( Two/ Three Pages)

Objective ( One page)

Review work (Three/Four/ Five Pages)

Methodology ( Two/ Three Pages)

Study/survey results (10-15 Pages)

Photographs ( Min: 3, Max: 10)

Discussion (One/ Two pages)

Conclusion ( One page)

Acknowledgements (One page)


Project Topic (s):

(Choose any one)

COVID-Wastes and environment

Global warming and its impact on the

environment

Ganga Pollution

Plants and Birds of your Locality


Last Date: 30/07/2021

COVID-Wastes and environment

What are COVID Wastes ?

COVID Wastes as biological hazards

Increased plastic pollution due to COVID Wastes

COVID Waste pollution at your Locality

COVID Waste management


Global warming and its impact on the environment

Global warming as a threat

Causes of global warming

Green house gasses

Actions taken to prevent global warming

Our roles and responsibilities


Ganga Pollution

About Ganga and its ecosystems

Pollutants in Ganga river

Impacts of Ganga Pollution

Ganga Action Plan

Ganga Pollution at your locality

Our roles and responsibility


Plants and Birds of your Locality


Plants, birds and environment

Importance of plants and birds

About different plants of your Locality

About different birds of your Locality

Number of Plants and Birds of your Locality

Photographs of plants and birds.

Our duty

Suggested Reading:

Asthana, D. K. (2006).Text Book of Environmental Studies. S. Chand Publishing.

Basu, M., Xavier, S. (2016). Fundamentals of Environmental Studies, Cambridge

University Press, India

Basu, R. N., (Ed.) (2000). Environment. University of Calcutta, Kolkata

Bharucha, E. (2013). Textbook of Environmental Studies for Undergraduate

Courses. Universities Press.

De, A.K., (2006).Environmental Chemistry, 6th Edition, New Age International,

New Delhi.

Mahapatra, R., Jeevan, S.S., Das, S. (Eds) (2017). Environment Reader for

Universities, Centre for

Science and Environment, New Delhi.

Masters, G. M., &Ela, W. P. (1991).Introduction to environmental engineering and

science. Englewood

Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.

Odum, E. P., Odum, H. T., & Andrews, J. (1971).Fundamentals of ecology.

Philadelphia: Saunders.

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