EA4104 Urban Ecology and Environmental Planning Syllabus:

EA4104 Urban Ecology and Environmental Planning Syllabus – Anna University PG Syllabus Regulation 2021

OBJECTIVES

 To enable understanding of the basic concepts of ecology, Urban Ecology, natural systems and environment.
 To bring out awareness of the importance of Environmental planning for sustainability, resource planning and allocation and protection of natural resources and their use for sustainability.
 To enable preparation of plans considering preservation, rehabilitation and environmental policies.

UNIT I INTRODUCTION

Introduction to Urban Eco-systems. Basis of environmental science. Ecology, Ecosystems, Habitat, structure of the ecosystem, major ecosystems, productivity of ecosystems adaptation. Flow of energy, food chain, ecological pyramids, predation, regulatory forces. Components of natural and built environment

UNIT II CONCEPTS AND APPROACHES TO ECOLOGICAL PLANNING

Different types of life supporting services provided by the nature. General concept of urban ecological planning. Impact of urbanization and industrialization on nature. Resiliency and Biodiversity, resources planning and climate resilient urban development.

UNIT III HUMAN INFLUENCE ON ECO- SYSTEM

Examination of critical issues underlying the current and future environmental problems. Human impact on environment. Modification of natural environment – Current conditions of natural resources like land, water, air. Over exploitation of natural resources, agriculture, fishing, mineral resources, energy resource, forest wealth etc.

UNIT IV EFFECTS OF GROWING POPULATION ON ECO-SYSTEMS

Population and pollution, Overcrowding, congestions, hygiene and health problems. Sanitation, water supply, solid and fluid waste generation and disposal problem, changing climate of the cities-urban heat island, urban flood, etc. energy and human settlement. Ecological Land Planning: Preservation and protection of ecologically sensitive areas, Rehabilitation of degraded sites, Development of sites/ land in accordance to their environmental properties.

UNIT V GLOBAL ISSUES ON MODERN CITIES

Global environmental problems: Global Warming, Ozone Layer Depletion, oceans, fresh water, trans boundary air pollution, biological diversity, Carbon Rating. International treatises, Land pollution, Overview of Government of India’s policies, United Nations contribution to address these issues.

TOTAL: 45 PERIODS

COURSE OUTCOMES

CO1 Understanding the importance of sustainable lifestyles and natural resource management.
CO2 knowledge of interaction between the effects of population growth and the environment
CO3 Understanding the need to conserve ecosystem and effective ways to do so.
CO4 Knowledge of government initiatives to address global environmental challenges

REFERENCES

1. D. D. Khanna, Sustainable development: environmental security, disarmament, and development interface in South Asia, Macmillan India, 1997
2. Francisco A. Comín, Ecological Restoration: A Global Challenge, Cambridge University Press, 2010.
3. John M. Marzluff, Urban Ecology: An International Perspective on the Interaction Between Humans and Nature, Springer, 2008.
4. Marina Alberti, Advances in Urban Ecology: Integrating Humans and Ecological Processes in Urban Ecosystems, Springer, 2007
5. P. D. Sharma, Ecology and Environment, Rastogi Publications, 2009
6. Saligram Bhatt, Environment Protection and Sustainable Development, APH Publishing, 2004
7. Tony Fry, Design Futuring: Sustainability, Ethics and New Practice, Berg, 2009 – Architecture.