ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION AND CONSERVATION

Paper Code: 
ZOL-612
Credits: 
3
Contact Hours: 
45.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
9.00
Unit I: 
UNIT I
Environment and its concepts
• Global environment.
• Hydrosphere.
• Lithosphere.
• Atmosphere
• Biosphere
Natural resources: Present status and future needs.
Management of natural resources: Renewable (Forests. Wildlife. Water) and Nonrenewable (Water, soil, minerals and energy)
 
9.00
Unit II: 
UNIT II
Environmental pollution I: 
• General outline and various types of pollutants. 
• A detailed account of pollution of water, air and soil
Environment pollution II: 
Sources and remedies for thermal, noise, industrial chemicals, agrochemicals. insecticides and pesticides and household
pollutants
Pollution control strategies
 
9.00
Unit III: 
UNIT III
Greenhouse effect.
 Ozone layer Depletion. 
El Nino and La Nina Effects
Radiation and Environment:
• Types of Radiation. 
• Sources of Radiation pollution
• Fall out. 
• Effects of Radiation.
• Nuclear Accident
Basic concepts of Bioaccumulation, Biomagnifications, Biodegradation of pollutants.
 
9.00
Unit IV: 
UNIT IV
Wild Life Conservation: Vanishing and threatened animals and plants with special reference to Rajasthan. 
Biodiversity hotspots and megadiversity countries; Biodiversity Act; Biopiracy
 Wildlife management, conservation of renewable resources
 
9.00
Unit V: 
UNIT V
Problems and the solutions of urbanization: 
• Brief idea of Human Population with special reference to India and Rajasthan
Space ecology: 
• Space problems and their solutions
• Space ecosystem
• Space colonization
Sustainable Environment
 
Essential Readings: 
Fundamentals of ecology; Odum, E.P.; W.B.Saunders, New Delhi.
Environmental Biology; Verma P.S. & Agarwal U.K; S. Chand &Co. NewDelhi
Environmental science-S.C. Santra, New Central Book Agency.
Soil and the Environment: An introduction Alanwild, Cambridge press.
 
Academic Year: 
2015-2016
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