Academic year:
Units and Topics
| # | Unit/Topic | Marks |
|---|---|---|
| 100 | People and Environment | - |
| 200 | Institutions (Social, Economic, Political, Legal, Cultural) and Environment | - |
| 300 | Knowledge, Science, Technology and Environment | - |
| 400 | Man-made Artefacts and Environment | - |
| Total | - |
Syllabus
100 People and Environment
- Humans as an integral part of the environment
- Growth in human numbers over historical times
- Migrations of people
- Dispersion of human populations
- Rural and urban settlements
- Environment and health
- Gender and environment
200 Institutions (Social, Economic, Political, Legal, Cultural) and Environment
- Evolution of technology, social, economic and political organisation, and growing resource demands
- Impact of economic growth on environment
- Inequitable economic growth, poverty and environment
- India as a country where many different modes of resource co-exist
- Open access, community controlled, private and state management of resources
- Evolution of environmental concerns in different societies over the course of history
- India’s manifold traditions of conservation and sustainable use
- Shift of environmental regulation from nature worship, customary law to Wildlife Act, Forest Conservation Act, Environmental Impact Assessment and Biological Diversity Act, etc
- Tools of environmental management, efficiency of resource use, sustaining harvests, pollution control
- Concept of sustainable development
- Concept of sustainable consumption
- Ecological footprints
- International economic regimes, forces of globalisation
- International regimes of environmental regulation, Framework Convention on Climate Change, Law of Sea, Transboundary Movement of Hazardous Wastes, etc
300 Knowledge, Science, Technology and Environment
- Growth of knowledge and human colonisation of new environments
- Growth of knowledge and use of newer resources
- Growth of knowledge, control of diseases and population growth
- Implications of intellectual property rights for environment
- Biotechnology, agriculture, health and environment
- Intellectual property rights over living organisms
- Traditional indigenous knowledge, its implication for environment
400 Man-made Artefacts and Environment
- Technological advances and ever accelerating pace of manufacture of artefacts
- Impact of agriculture, animal husbandry, aquaculture
- Impact of agrochemicals on environment
- Impact of industry, mining, transport
- Generation and provision of energy, water and other natural resources
- Impact of synthetic chemicals
- Life cycle analysis of: Newspaper, household consumables, house construction, transport, personal computer, cell phones, etc.
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