CX4016 ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY LTPC 3003

UNIT I INTRODUCTION 9
Valuing the Environment: Concepts, Valuing the Environment: Methods,
Externalities, and Environmental Problems Property Rights,
UNIT II CONCEPT OF SUSTAINABILITY
Sustainable Development: Defining the 9
Economics: An Overview, Energy, Water,
Concept, the Population Problem, Natural Resource
Agriculture
UNIT III SIGNIFICANCE OF BIODIVERSITY 9
Biodiversity, Forest Habitat, Commercially Valuable Species, Stationary Source Local Air
Pollution, Acid Rain and Atmospheric Modification,
Transportation
UNIT IV POLLUTION IMPACTS
Water Pollution, Solid Waste and
Recycling. Toxic Substances and Hazardous Wastes, Global
Warming.
UNIT V
ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS 9
Development, Poverty, and the Environment, Visions of the Future, Environmental
and policy by Tom economics
Tietenberg, Environmental Economics
TOTAL: 45 PERIODS

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2. Stephen Doven,
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3. Robert Brinkmann.,
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4. Niko Roorda., Fundamentals of Wiley-Blackwell., 2016
Sustainable Development, 3rd Edn,
5. Bhavik R Bakshi., Sustainable
Engineering: Principles and Routledge, 2020
Press, 2019 Practice, Cambridge University