Environment Pollution Waste Management and Sanitation
Definition: Environment Pollution Waste Management and Sanitation addresses pollution sources, control, waste handling, and sanitation practices for sustainable environments.
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Detailed Syllabus
Unit 1: Environmental Pollution and Climate Change
- Environmental Pollution
- Causes, effects and control measures of
- Air Pollution
- Water pollution
- Soil Pollution
- Marine pollution
- Noise pollution
- Thermal Pollution
- Nuclear Hazards
- Role of an individual in prevention of pollution
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Case studies
- Climate Change
- Causes, Consequences and Solution of Climate Change
- its effect on
- Agriculture
- Availability of Fresh Water and Change of River Ecosystem
- Sea-Level Rising
- IPCC Agenda 21
- Earth Summit
- Stockholm Conference 1972
- Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)
- Ramsar Convention
- Protocol
- Kyoto Protocol
- Montreal Protocol
Unit 2: Disaster Management, Environmental Legislation and EIA
- Disaster Management
- Floods, Drought, Earthquake, Volcanoes, Cyclone and Landslides
- Disaster management cycle
- Role of information, education communication and training in disaster management
- Environmental Legislation and EIA
- Role of Ministry of Environment and Forest (MoEF), Government of India
- Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB)
- National Environmental Policy (NEP) - 2006, in developing legislation
- Environment Protection Act
- Air (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act
- Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act
- Wildlife Protection Act
- Forest Conservation Act
- Issues involved in enforcement of Environmental legislation
- Environmental Awareness: Role of Non-Government Organizations in Public Awareness
- Environment Impact Assessmcnt: Concept and significance: methods of assessment
Unit 3: Waste Management
- Introduction to Solid waste management
- Primary waste products
- Solid waste
- Toxic biological and hospital wastes
- Waste composition and characterization
- Municipal solid waste generation
- cycling and disposal
- landfills
- incineration
- source reduction and recycling
- Hazardous waste management and handling rules
Unit 4: Environmental Sanitation and Health
- Environmental Sanitation and Health
- Introduction to WHO and UNICEF
- water and airborne diseases
- TB
- Cholera
- Amoebiasis, and Dehydration: ORT
- social economic and health impacts of AIDS. Role of public awareness and information technology in sanitation and human health.
- Social Issues and the Environment
- From Unsustainable to Sustainable development
- Urban problems related to energy
- Water conservation
- Rainwater Harvesting
- Watershed management
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Resettlement and rehabilitation of peoples; its problems and concerns, case studies
- Environmental ethics: Issues and possible solutions
- Environmental Education
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Waste land reclamation, Consumerism and Waste products
- Environmental movements: Chipko Movement