To introduce the concepts of environment and development with special emphasis on sustainable development. The course is framed to impart general awareness and implications of resources, ecology and physical environment and linkages with development actions. The course in aimed fundamentally to orient the student towards issues of environment and development.

    Definition of environment

    Types of environment: biotic and a biotic

    Population, resources, environmental degradation and pollution

    Pollutants & their effects and control

    Resource usage, population distribution and development

    Laws of thermodynamics

    Types and components of ecosystem

    Energy flow in ecosystems

    Matter recycling

    Interactions in ecosystem

    Air resources

    Atmospheric systems. Climate

    Air Pollution, indoor air pollution

    Air Pollutants

    Control mechanisms of air pollution

    Emission standards

    Air pollution issues: Green house effect, global warning, and ozone

    depletion, photochemical smog, nuclear wars: problems

    Water Resources- types

    Water Resources- renewal, use

    Drinking water standards, health aspects

    Water pollution

    Sanitation

    Sanitation systems

    Collection, conveyance and disposal

    Standards of treated wastewater: Recycling and Reuse

    Types of Energy Sources- renewable, non- Renewable, conventional and non- conventional energy quality
    Energy efficient systems, energy saving mechanisms

    Definition of sustainable development

    Sustainable development capacity

    Sustainable development concepts

    Sustainable development indices

    Principles of Evaluation and building of sustainable development capacity

    Sustainability of urban ecological environment method of Evaluation with case study

    Factors effecting sustainable development of cities.

    Human settlement environment issues: Hard and Soft.

    Urban human settlement environment index

    Constructing human settlement environment and optimization principles: with case study

    1. Environmental Biology-By K.C. Agarwal,

    2. Renetaoubos, Only the Earth- By Barbara Ward.

    3. Ecology and Quality of our Environment- By Charles H Southwick.

    4. South Asian Region Workshop on Science and Climate Change- By CSE, 1995 (Proc)

    5. Ecology- By David B Sutter & N. Paul Harman,

    6. Energy and Ecology- By David M Gates.

    7. Ecology and Environmental Planning- By Edington John.

    8. Concepts of Ecology- By Edward J Kormondy.

    9. Environmental issues, Scope report No: 10, - By Gilbert F White

    10. Essential Learning’s in Environment- By CEE Publications Ahmedabad.

    11. Ecological Systems and Environment- By Faur Theodore.C.

    12. Green Reader - By Meena Raghunathan, Mamta Pandya, CEE Publications.

    13. Global Warming, Colloborative Study on Strategies to limit CO₂ Emissions in Asia and Brazil- By Asian
         Energy Institute.

    14 Ecology 2000: Changing Face of Earth- By Hillary Edmond

    15 The Environment, Public Health and Human Ecology consideration for Economic Development-By James Lee.

    16 Earth Scape, A Manual of Environmental Planning- By John O. Simon’s.

    17 Ecology Science of Survival – By Lawrence Pringle

    18. Environment Science, Sustaining the Earth – By Miller Tyler

    19. The Global Environmental Movement- By McCormick. J.

    20. Ecological Context- By Me hale John.

    21. The Nature and Properties of Soils- By Nylec C Brady

    22. We the Nation The Lost Decades- By N.A. Palkivala

    23. Urbanization and Urban Systems in India- By R. Ramchandran.

    24. Air Pollution- By M. N. Rao

    25. Ecology- By Robert R Rick leys.

    26. Environmental Planning Policies and Programs in India. – By K.D. Saksena.

    27. Ecosystem Management Selected Readings- By F.B. Samson & F.L. Knopf

    28. Ecology of Natural Resources- By I. G. Simmons.

    29. Poverty and shelter- By R. Skinner & M. J. Rodale.

    30. World Environmental Reports- By UNDP

    31. Ecology Impact Assessment and Environmental Planning- By West man Walter.

    32. Environment, Industry, Agriculture, 92-97- Volumes of the Hindu Survey.

    33. The Green Reader (Green School Series) - By CEE Publications

    Attendance : 10%

    Assignment : 15%

    Interim Mid Exams (3) : 35%

    Final Exam (Written Examination) : 40%