Topics Included In Environmental Studies

Syllabus

Environment:

• Definition• Composition• Structure• Impact of human on environment• Impact of environment on human

Natural resources: renewable and non-renewable

1. Forest Resources: Their use and over exploitation, Deforestation,Implications of derorestation.

2.Water Resources: Surface water and ground water, utilization/overutilization of water resources and their implications.Floods, drought, control of floods.

3.Mineral Resources: Use and exploitation, environmental effects of over exploitation.

4. Energy Resources: Renewable & non-renewable energy sources.

5. Food Resources: Need, world food problem. Decreasing food resources, factors effecting reduction in food resources.

6. Land Resources: Land as resource, land degradation, landslides, soil erosion and desertification.

Ecosystems:

• Concept, structure, energy flow in ecosystem.• Food chain, food webs and ecological

pyramids.• Different ecosystem: forest, grassland, desert,

aquatic.

Biodiversity & its conservation

• Definition • Genetics• Species and ecosystem diversity • India as mega diversity nation • Threats to biodiversity• Conservation of biodiversity

Environmental pollution:

• Air, water, land and noise pollutions• Marine, thermal and nuclear hazards• Solid waste management• Disaster management

Social Issues & Environment:

• Sustainable development, resources conservation

• Water conservation: Rain water harvesting, watershed management

• Environmental Acts

Human Population & Environment

• Population growth• Variation among nations• Population explosion• Environment and human health