JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY HYDERABAD

Course Objectives

To develop a conceptual outlook on various ecological facets of environment.

Course Outcomes:

• Knowledge on Ecosystems and Ecological Balances.
• An outlook on living and non-living resources as well as energy resources of environment.

UNIT - I

Environment, Ecology, and Sustaining the Earth; Nature and Humans: Earth, population, environment.

UNIT - II

Ecosystems; Ecosystems, ecology of populations, human population dynamics – growth and urbanization; environmental economics and politics.

UNIT - III

Ecological Balances – Material cycles in ecosphere, Matter and Energy Resources; Energy flow in ecosystems; bio-geochemical systems.

UNIT - IV

Air, Water and Soil Resources: Air Resources, pollution, global warning, ozone depletion; water resources – surface and groundwater, sources of pollution; soil resources – conservation, contamination, salt water intrusion, hazardous wastes.

UNIT - V

Living Resources Food resources, pesticides, pest control: land resources – forests, wetlands, wilderness, national parks; wild plants and animal resources, Energy and Mineral Exploitation: perpetual and renewable energy; non-renewable energy; non-renewable mineral resources, solid and hazardous wastes.

TEXT BOOKS:

• 1. Environmental Science by Tyley Miller- Brooks Cole(2012)
• 2. Concepts of Ecology by Edward J Kormondy -Phi Learning (2009)