Environment and Ethics: A Basic Course

Name: Environment and Ethics: A Basic Course
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An environmental problem is an imbalance or undesirable change in the environment

Created byDr. Swati Chakraborty

Last updated 2/2026

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What you'll learn

To know about the Constituents of Environment and Ethics
To know about the Man-Environment Relationship
To know the Role of an individual in conservation of natural resources.
To describe the equitable use of resources for sustainable lifestyles.
To know in details about the basics of Environment Ethics

Course content

5 sections • 35 lectures • 9h 16m total length

Unit 1- Part 118:14
Explore the multidisciplinary and holistic nature of environmental studies, examining the interrelations of physical, biological, and cultural elements and the man-environment relationship for sustainable development.
Unit 1- Part 218:26
Explore the interdependent components of environment—biotic, abiotic, and cultural—through conservation of resources, biodiversity maintenance, pollution control, and sustainable living across local communities.
Unit 1- Part 319:07
The unit explains the physical environment as abiotic components, solid earth, water, and the atmosphere, and their relation to the hydrosphere, lithosphere, and biosphere, plus cultural environments toward sustainable development.
Unit 1- Part 418:15
Explore how temperature, water, light, and soil shape living conditions and ecosystems, and examine human responsibility for a sustainable, greener future.
Unit 1- Part 518:14
Explore the evolving human environment relationship, from environmental determinism in geography to nature-society studies, and how interdisciplinary approaches illuminate health, ecology, and policies.
Unit 1- Part 615:38
Explore the ecosystem concept, its importance in maintaining environmental balance, and forest, grassland, desert, tundra, and aquatic systems; trace energy flow, food chains, and the producer–consumer–decomposer network.
Unit 1- Part 716:06
Explore how abiotic and biotic components shape ecosystems, energy flow from sun to producers, nutrient cycling through consumers and decomposers, and the role of public awareness in sustainability.
unit 1- Part 816:34
Quiz 1
What is Ethics?
Minor Project

Unit 2- Part 114:05
Explore natural resources, renewable and non-renewable resources, sustainable development, conservation, and the role of individuals in equitable, responsible use.
Unit 2- Part 215:50
Explore renewable and non-renewable resources, life cycle assessment, and the forest's role in habitat, energy, and climate regulation, emphasizing sustainable practices and personal responsibility.
Unit 2- Part 315:26
Unit 2- Part 416:39
Explore water resources and hydropower for sustainable development, including dams, groundwater, aquifers, and their environmental and social benefits, plus mining and food security challenges.
Unit 2- Part 515:12
Explore how modern agriculture, pesticides, and fertilizers drive land degradation, soil erosion, and water issues, while highlighting health risks, biodiversity loss, and case studies in Punjab and California.
Unit 2-Part 615:55
Assess energy resources, distinguishing non-renewable conventional and renewable non-conventional sources, and outline India's mix of coal, oil, gas, hydro, solar, wind, biomass, geothermal, and biogas.

Unit 3- Part 114:50
Explore how ecosystems and biodiversity form the core of environmental studies, and examine climate change, human interference, and nutrient cycles that shape energy flow from producers to decomposers.
Unit 3- Part 215:48
Explore how external and internal factors shape ecosystems, from climate and energy flow to biodiversity and ecosystem services. Understand biodiversity's multidimensional nature and human impacts on ecosystem balance and functioning.
Unit 3-Part 315:29
Explore how biodiversity extends from unmanaged to managed ecosystems, measure biodiversity through species richness, and understand how keystone species, ecosystem engineers, and coral reefs sustain ecosystem services amid human pressures.
Unit 3-Part 415:11
Explore how biodiversity sustains ecosystem functioning and services through horizontal and vertical diversity, species interactions, and platform-enabled studies like Eco, Tron, and My DS for conservation.
Unit 3-Part 515:10
Examine how biodiversity and ecosystems interrelate through neutral theory, patterns, and variations, and assess somatotype-based views of behavior alongside Maslow’s motivation theory in environmental studies.
Unit 3- Part 616:08
Explore how biodiversity, environment, and social context shape personality through trait-based and psychodynamic theories, including Freud's id, ego, superego, and the role of nurture vs nature.

Unit 4- Part 112:37
Examine environmental pollution, its human-driven causes, and health and ecosystem impacts, while exploring air, water, and soil types and practical control measures for sustainable development.
Unit 4- Part 217:08
Air pollution drives health risks, especially for the elderly. Industrialization and urbanization amplify anthropogenic pollution, while the lecture contrasts natural versus manmade pollution and outlines its global ecological crisis.
Unit 4- Part 315:11
Examine how population growth drives urbanisation and resource overuse, leading to air and water pollution, while technology and affluence shape environmental degradation and health.
Unit 4- Part 415:20
Explore how population pressure affects environment and learn practical measures to reduce air pollution, including Energy Star products, carpooling, public transit, urban planning, and industry controls.

Unit 5- Part 115:06
Explore sustainable development as a framework for balancing energy, water stewardship, and social equity, guided by global goals and partnerships to protect resources for future generations.
Unit 5- Part 215:23
Promote sustainable development by recognizing non-renewable resource scarcity, supporting the SDGs, and addressing urbanization, energy use, and water conservation to safeguard future generations.
Unit 5- Part 316:38
Explore how human involvement supports environmental balance and learn practical water conservation strategies, focusing on rainwater harvesting, water use reduction, and home practices to sustain freshwater resources.
Unit 5- Part 415:00
Explore rainwater harvesting, watershed management, and sustainable water resources to protect urban water supply, manage pollution, and engage communities in watershed planning.
Unit 5- Part 514:40
Explore how social issues shape the environment through resettlement, rehabilitation, and environmental ethics. Examine climate change and development impacts on communities, and learn watershed management and public education strategies.
Unit 5- Part 616:39
Explore the ethics of displacement and land acquisition, then examine environmental ethics, climate change, and global warming, highlighting sustainable development, renewable resources, and biodiversity impacts.
Unit5- Part 715:25
Explains how global warming affects biodiversity, oceans, sea level rise, and permafrost, and outlines prevention through renewable energy, efficiency, sustainable transport, and responsible consumption.
Unit 5- Part 815:36
Explore how climate change, acid rain, and ozone depletion threaten environments, examine nuclear energy risks and disasters, and review afforestation, soil conservation, and sustainable land management.
Unit 5- Part 915:08
Examine how consumerism drives a global waste crisis and environmental degradation, and outline the key environmental acts, enforcement mechanisms, and the think global, act local approach.
Unit 5- Part 1015:12
Explore how government intervention and environmental acts, including environmental protection act 1986 and water prevention and control of pollution act 1974, guide impact assessments and air and water pollution controls.
Unit 5- Part 1115:12
Examine how international treaties influence India's water and forest laws, including Water Act provisions, Forest Conservation Act 1980, and the prevention and control role of tribunals and pollution boards.

Requirements

Basic Computer knowledge
Interest about your own Environment

Description

Everything that surrounds or affects associate degree organism throughout its life time is put together referred to as its setting or just place everything close a living organism like people; place and things represent its setting which might be either natural or semisynthetic. The word environment has been derived from a French word ‘environner’ assuming to encircle or to surround.

Within the starting, setting of early man consisted of solely physical aspects of the planet earth like land (lithosphere), air (atmosphere) and water (hydrosphere) on with organic phenomenon communities however, with the passage of your time and advancement of society man extended his setting to incorporate his social, economic and political functions too.

Environmental information could be multidisciplinary information whose elementary aspects have an immediate significance to each phase of the earth. Its main characteristics include:

• Conservation and natural resources.

• Maintenance and management of biological diversity.

• Dominant and managing setting pollution to permissible limit

• Stabilization of human population and environment.

• Development of alternate sources of renewable energy systems

• Providing new dimension to nation’s security through conservation, protection, management and maintenance of setting.

It additionally deals with important problems like safe and clean water, sanitary living conditions and pollution free contemporary air, fertility of land, healthy food and development of property environmental laws, administration, environmental protection, management and setting business are bobbing up as new opportunities for environment protection and managements. The connection and interaction between organism and setting are extremely advanced and three-dimensional. No organism will live alone while not interacting with different organisms or different biotic/abiotic forms. Therefore every organism has different organisms as a district of its setting. Everything with that we have a tendency to act or that we'd like for our sustenance forms our environment. In fact, setting is unreal totally different in in numerous ways that with different associates teams of individuals however it's going to be safely argued that ‘environment is an indivisible whole and is implanted by the interacting system of physical, biological and cultural components that are interlinked severally furthermore as together in myriad ways that. The setting isn't static; rather it’s an awfully dynamic entity. Numerous factors (biotic & abiotic) are in an exceedingly flux and keep ever-changing the setting endlessly.

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Course content

Module 1: The Multi-Disciplinary Nature of Environmental Studies8 lectures • 2hr 21min

Module 2-: NATURAL RESOURCES6 lectures • 1hr 33min

Module 3: ECOSYSTEMS AND BIODIVERSITY6 lectures • 1hr 33min

Module 4: ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION AND HUMAN POPULATION4 lectures • 1hr

Module 5: SOCIAL ISSUES AND THE ENVIRONMENT11 lectures • 2hr 50min

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