Introduction to Resources: Water-Land-Forest-Minerals-Energy. Principles of Ecotourism – Types of Ecotourism. Impacts of Ecotourism. Public health: communicable diseases, mode of transmission (epidemic and endemic diseases) Occupational health and safety Industrial safety and management techniques Safety management system EMS ISO14001
Classification of solid wastes, waste characteristics and quantitative estimation of municipalsolidwaste,factorsaffectingsolidwastemanagement,wastehierarchy,solid waste generation, storage, handling, transport, and disposal. Disposal Methods: (i) composting, (ii) sanitary landfill, (iii) waste to energy, leachate management for landfills, Integrated waste management, Hazardous waste management, other wastes, andtheirmanagement-constructionanddemolitionwaste,bio-medicalwaste,e-waste, plastics waste, nuclear and radioactive waste, legal provisions for wasteManagement
EnvironmentalImpactAssessment-Environmentalchangeandeffects,EIAtheoryand objective – EIA output and outcome objectives- origins and development of EIA. Environmental Impact Assessment Practice: screening procedures, screening approaches – Is EIA required? – Type of EIA, Scoping and environmental baseline assessments: Scoping requisites -identification of projectalternatives, predicting
environmental impacts: Impact prediction- predicting impacts on the biophysical environment, managing project impacts, determining impact significance, public participation in EIA.
CO1: Study the concepts of resource management and safety
CO2: Train the students on the processing and management of different types of waste like municipal solid waste, electronic waste, hazardous waste, and biomedical waste CO3: Understand the overview of environmental impact analysis
| PO | PO1 | PO2 | PO3 | PO4 | PO5 | PO6 | PO7 | PO8 | PO9 | PO10 | PO11 | PO12 |
| CO | ||||||||||||
| CO1 | 1 | – | 2 | – | – | 3 | 3 | 2 | – | – | – | 2 |
| CO2 | 3 | 1 | 3 | – | – | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | – | 2 |
| CO3 | 2 | 1 | – | – | – | 3 | 3 | 2 | – | 1 | – | 2 |
| Assessment | Internal | External |
| Continuous Evaluation | 20% | |
| Mid-Term | 30% | |
| End Semester exam | 50% |
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