Syllabus
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Course Code: GT-801 Course Name: Environmental Geoscience |
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| MODULE NO / UNIT | COURSE SYLLABUS CONTENTS OF MODULE | NOTES |
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| 1 | Fundamental concepts of environmental geology: environmental geoscience, its scope, objective, and aims; role of geosciences in our society. Land use planning: definition and objective of land use planning and their types, landscape aesthetics. | |
| 2 | Solid Waste: causes of solid waste, their types and effects of solid waste, waste disposal. Solid waste management: reduce, reuse, recycle and their method of management. | |
| 3 | Hazard: types of hazards (landslides, volcanoes, earthquakes, droughts, cyclones, floods), causes of hazards and their mitigations. | |
| 4 | Environmental impact assessment (EIA): aims and objectives of EIA, methodology of EIA. Environmental legislation: air act, water act, environmental protection act, forest act, wildlife act and waste management rules. | |
