Course description
The course is intended to introduce atmospheric processes using atmospheric science so as to make students understand the importance of the atmosphere, its linkages with impacts on earth resources. It covers human impacts on the atmosphere and the resultant impacts on the environment.
Course objectives
· To discuss the physical –chemical properties of the atmosphere
· To explain the importance of the atmosphere to planet earth
· To analyse human impacts on the atmosphere, potential and real consequences on the earth
· To explain climate variations and climate change and their impacts on earth
Biodiversity is globally threatened and if no conservation strategies are put in place at both local and global levels, several species will go extinct across the globe. This will result into loss of all the services associated with species diversity on the earth’s surface. The course is intended to equip students with knowledge, attitudes and skills necessary for conservation of biodiversity. The course is cast in four major themes; biodiversity and its importance, threats to biodiversity, approaches to conservation of biodiversity, and human factors in biodiversity conservation.
Biodiversity is globally threatened and if no conservation strategies are put in place at both local and global levels, several species will go extinct across the globe. This will result into loss of all the services associated with species diversity on the earth’s surface. The course is intended to equip students with knowledge, attitudes and skills necessary for conservation of biodiversity. The course is cast in four major themes; biodiversity and its importance, threats to biodiversity, approaches to conservation of biodiversity, and human factors in biodiversity conservation.
In recent years, Remote Sensing and GIS techniques have emerged as one of the most versatile decision-making tools in the geospatial domain with increasing applications in new areas. Integrated application of these two techniques culminates in harnessing the natural resources with incredible speed and reasonable accuracy, even from inaccessible areas, to help the process of planning the integrated development of a region. They are widely used in monitoring, management, planning in diverse fields of activities, such as, sustainable development, infrastructure development, disaster management, environmental monitoring, resource inventory, rural and urban planning etc. Remotely Sensed data from Aerial photographs and Satellites, combined with GPS serve as the basic database in GIS for multi-criteria decision making in several applications, viz., groundwater and mineral exploration, land use / land cover, wasteland management, inland water resources, mining, agriculture, forestry, coastal mapping and development, land records, health care, socio-economic, crime investigation etc., to name a few.