Syllabus
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Course Code: MES-203 Course Name: Pollution and Global Climate Change |
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| MODULE NO / UNIT | COURSE SYLLABUS CONTENTS OF MODULE | NOTES |
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| 1 | Air and noise Pollution : Sources, classification and properties of air pollutants, behaviour and fate of air pollutants, effects of air pollution on human health & materials, sampling and analysis of air pollutants, SOx, NOx, CO, Ozone, hydrocarbons and particulate matter, meteorological aspects of air pollutant dispersion, Air quality standards. Noise pollution: Definition, sources and effects; noise-monitoring-sound level meter. |
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| 2 | Water Pollution: Sources, consequences, ecological and biochemical aspects of water pollution, characteristics of domestic, industrial and agricultural wastes, their effects on water bodies; thermal pollution. Marine pollution-a general account; water quality standards. Soil Pollution: Soil pollution from use of fertilizers, pesticides, heavy metals, waste disposal, industrial effluents and surfactants. Detrimental effects of soil pollutants, Remedial measures for soil pollution. |
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| 3 | Global climate change: Greenhouse effect, greenhouse gases-sources, trends, radiative forcing, warming potential of gases. CO2 fertilization effect on plants; potential impacts of global warming – polar ice caps and melting of glaciers, sea level increase, weather extreme, ecosystems , human health, coral leaf bleaching , surface ocean chemistry, biogenic calcification in oceans. |
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| 4 | Tools to study global climate change- paleoclimatic records, general circulation models, ice cores. Mitigation strategies for global warming; biological carbon sequestration, carbon sequestration in geological formations; role of forests in soil carbon storage. Kyoto protocol; carbon trading. Global environmental change programmes, IPCC; Indian initiative for mitigating global climate change. |
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