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GE3206 PRINCIPLES OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
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OBJECTIVES
To understand the basic concepts of environmental issuses, evolution, biodiversity and
impacts on human heath, internal and external earth structures and climate changes.
UNIT I ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES 9
Environmental issues - Population growth, resource use, climate change, biodiversity
crisis, pollution and poverty – economic development – indicators, resources and
systems- cultural change and sustainability – agricultural, industrial, information and
globalization revolution – use of economics to improve environmental quality and
reduction poverty – environmental revolution.
UNIT II EVOLUTION 9
Evolution and adaption – ecological niches, speciation, extinction and biodiversity –
biomes – aquatic environment – community structure and species diversity – types,
competition and predation, parasitism, mutualism and commensalism – ecological
succession, stability and sustainability.
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UNIT III BIODIVERSITY 9
Human impacts on biodiversity – protection of biodiversity – forests – types,
management, tree harvesting – tropical deforestation – national reserves – biosphere
reserves – wilderness – preservation, protection and management – ecological
restoration – species extinction – types – endangered and threatened species –
extinction rates – effect of human activities – preservation – habitat loss and degradation
– habitat fragmentations, non native species – role effect and solutions – shunting and
poaching – wild life management.
UNIT IV EARTH STRUCTURE 9
Earth structure – internal and external earth processes – minerals, rocks and rock cycle
– mineral resources – processing, impacts, limits, economics – earthquakes and
volcanic eruptions – soil resources – formation and types, erosion, and conservationhuman
population – size, fertility, death and distribution – risks and hazards – toxicity –
dose, frequency of exposure, detoxification systems, solubility, persistence – bio
accumulation, biomagnifications, response – risk analysis – assessment and
management.
UNIT V CLIMATE CHANGE AND WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT 9
Climate – global air circulation, ocean currents, upwellings, El-Nina, La-Nina – natural
green house effect, climate change and human activities protection – green house
gases, ozone layer – ozone depletion – solution – water resources – water conflicts,
importance, properties, uses, shortages and solution – large dams and reservoirs –
advantages and disadvantages – water transfers – wastages of water, floods
desalination – ground water – problems and solutions – water pollution – types, effects,
sources and solution.
TOTAL: 45 PERIODS
TEXT BOOKS :
1. G. Tyler Miller, Jr, Environmental Sciences, Brooks/Cole- Thomson Learning, USA,
2004.
2. Erach Bharucha, Textbook of Environmental Studies for undergraduate courses,
UniversityGrants Commission, University Press, Hyderabad, 2006.
REFERENCES :
1. R.Rajagopalan, Environmental Studies from crisis to cure, Oxford university press,
New Delhi, 2006.
2. T.Meenambal, R.N.Uma and K.Murali, Principles of Environmental science and
Engineering, S.Chand & Company Ltd, New Delhi, 2005.