Resource links for CVAC Environmental Education (ENVS 02) paper Semester 2
Resource links for CVAC Environmental Education (ENVS 02) paper, Semester 2:
Unit 3: Human Communities and the Environment
Human population growth: Impacts on environment, human health and welfare
Concept of Resettlement
Concept of Rehabilitation
Environmental movements: Bishnois. Chipko. Silent valley. Big dam movements.
Environmental ethics
Ecofeminism
Unit 4: Disaster Awareness
Fundamentals of hazard, disaster, risk and vulnerability
Disaster classification, Natural Disasters-floods, earthquake, cyclones, tsunami and landslides; Manmade Disaster.
Case Studies: Minamata disaster
Case Studies: Bhopal gas disaster
Case Studies: Fukushima nuclear disaster
Case Studies: Kedarnath flood
Case Studies: Cyclone Aila
Case Studies: COVID-19
Disaster management, Disaster warning systems
Unit 5: Role of environmental education in protecting environment
Lifelong learning procedure
Formal and informal environmental education
Role of NGOs and government institutions
Role of information technology and mass media
Students may note that all topics under Units I and II have already been discussed earlier in the classes held in the college.
Dr. A. Poddar
Dept. of Electronics
Surendranath Evening College
Kolkata 9.