Unit-1 : History and scope of ecology and environmental science, conceptual development of ecological terminology, ecological landmark, relationship of ecology with other branches of science, interrelatedness, importance of environmental science for human beings.
Unit -2 : Ecosystem concept :Biotic and abiotic components of ecosystem, ecotones and biomes, ecological pyramids of number, biomass and energy. food Chain, food web and trophic levels, ecological amplitude and ecological niches
Unit -3 : Ecological energetics, first and second laws of thermodynamics and flow of energy in ecosystem
Unit -4 : Biogeochemical cycling carbon, Nitrogen, Phosphorus and Sulphur and Hydrological cycles and microbial ecology
Unit -5 : Primary and secondary productivity of different ecosystems in the world methods of measurements of productivity and the factors affecting productivity
Unit -1 : Forest ecosystem- Forest as an ecosystem, distribution of forests, types of forests, economics and ecology of forest, role of forests in protection of speices regulation of climate and production of various produce. Depletion of biodiversity from forest and the world forest conservation policies
Unit-2 : Grassland ecosystem - Distribution and types of grasslands, rangelandsand biodiversity in grassland, and productivity in grasslands
Unit-3 : Desert Ecosystem and Wastelands-Desert as ecosystems, hot and cold deserts, productivity, characteristics and global distribution of deserts. Desertification process, Ecological Geological Geographical and Geomorphological aspects of Thar desert, adaption in desert, fauna and flora, Vegitation types of Thar Desert, change in landuse pattern due to introduction of canals and envionmental consequences. Types and distribution of wastelands in India.
Unit-4 : Aquatic Ecosystem: Lentic and lotic ecosystem, structure, energy flow and productivity in eusturies, marine ecosystem, structure biodiversity and productivity in, marine ecosystem
Unit-5 : Wetland Ecosystem- Distribution, energetics and productivity in wetlands. Biodiversity and economic importance of wetlands
Unit -1 : Air Pollution : Atmospheric composition and startification. Types of air pollutants, sources of emmisions of air pollutants, atmospheric physics and chemistry of air pollution, methods of detection and measurement of air pollution. Effect of air pollution on vegetation, man, animals, materials and environment; Global warming, levels of emmisions of greenhouse gases, greenhouse effect, climate change, sea level rise, implication of global warming on mainland (agriculture, residential places and diseases). Ozone depletion, chemistry of depletion, chemicals affecting stratospheric ozone layer, consequences of ozone depletion, acid Rain, chemistry, causes and effects of acid rain.
Unit-2 : Water Pollution: Potable-water standards, types of water pollutants and their sources, impacts of water pollution on human, plants and animals. Waterborne diseases diarrhoea, dysentry, typhoid viral hepatitis and their control). Marine pollution causes, impacts and consequences of marine pollution, Economics of water. Waste water and their categories
Unit-3 : Noise Pollution : Sources and causes of noise pollution, methods of detection of noise levels, biomedical aspects of noise pollution
Unit-4 : Land Pollution : Sources and causes of land degradation and land pollution. Impacts of land pollution.
Unit-5 : Radiation pollution and thermal pollution : Radiation characteristics, radiation pollution, causes and impacts of radiation pollution. Thermal pollution, causes and impacts of thermal pollution, magnitude of thermal pollution in India.
Unit -1 : Ecopolitics and Environmental activism, the birth of ecopolitics and environmental movements and enviromentalism, Chipko, Appiko, the Stockholm Conference on Human Environment of 1972 and the Rio Earth Summit of 1992.
Unit -2 : NGO's and Environmental Conservation, National NGO's, KSSP etc Environmental conservation measures taken, i.e. Role of Ecological Task Force
Unit -3 : Role of International Organizations in Environmental conservations : Role of International Union for conservation of Nature and natural resources (IUCN) World-wide Fund for Nature (WWF), UNEP, UNESCO, GEF, IGBP etc
Unit -4 : Environmental politics : Environmental politics for afforestation, abatement of Industrial pollution, automobile pollution, pollution due to power generation etc.
Unit -5: Environmental laws and International conventions environmental provisions in the constitution of India , environmental laws for the protection of air, water, forest and wildlife in India. Various conversations and treaties for protection of global environment. The basel convention 1989, London convention 1972, The United Nations Convention an climate change, 1992. The Montreal Protocol, 1989, Biodiversity convention 1993.
