EVS Syllabus Of Calcutta University

Hii sir, I wants to get the EVS syllabus for the Undergraduate Courses of the Calcutta University ?

As you asking for the syllabus for the Undergraduate Courses of the Calcutta University the syllabus of the EVS is as follow :

Environmental Studies


Unit 1 : Multidisciplinary nature of environmental studies
Definition, scope and importance
Need for public awareness.


Unit 2 : Natural Resources :
Renewable and non-renewable resources :
Natural resources and associated problems.
a) Forest resources : Use and over-exploitation, deforestation, case studies.
Timber extraction, mining, dams and their effects on forest and tribal people.
b) Water resources : Use and over-utilization of surface and ground water,
floods, drought, conflicts over water, dams-benefits and problems.
c) Mineral resources : Use and exploitation, environmental effects of extracting
and using mineral resources, case studies.
d) Food resources : World food problems, changes caused by agriculture and
overgrazing, effects of modern agriculture, fertilizer-pesticide problems, water
logging, salinity, case studies.
e) Energy resources : Growing energy needs, renewable and non renewable
energy sources, use of alternate energy sources. Case studies.
f) Land resources : Land as a resource, land degradation, man induced
landslides, soil erosion and desertification.
• Role of an individual in conservation of natural resources.
• Equitable use of resoureces for sustainable lifestyles.


Unit 3 : Ecosystems
• Concept of an ecosystem.
• Structure and function of an ecosystem.
• Producers, consumers and decomposers.
• Energy flow in the ecosystem.
• Ecological succession.
• Food chains, food webs and ecological pyramids.
• Introduction, types, characteristic features, structure and function of the
following ecosystem :-
a. Forest ecosystem
b. Grassland ecosystem
c. Desert ecosystem
d. Aquatic ecosystems (ponds, streams, lakes, rivers, oceans, estuaries)


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