
The Course Instructor gives Preview of the course and the instructional path.
Explore how nature deficit disorder arises from urban living and indoor time, linking obesity, stress, and depression to reduced contact with nature, and discover outdoor activities that restore health.
The story of the timeline of life on earth starting with the first form of life 3.5 billion years ago till the emergence of Homo sapiens is described in this lecture. The five great extinctions, it’s 100 million years of periodicity and the threatening halocene is also explained.
The term Environment is broadly defined in this lecture.Natural and built environment, abiotic and biotic environment as factors constituting the Environment are also explained in this lecture.
Apply a systems approach to the environment, viewing it as interdependent components with input, processing, output, and feedback that drive system goals across ecosystems and atmosphere.
Apply systems thinking to the environment as an interrelated system, and use the iceberg model to map patterns, structures, and causative factors for mitigation.
Explore the sustainability compass for environment to map four dimensions: environment, economy, society, and well-being. Use this tool to unite stakeholders, set shared goals, and monitor progress toward sustainability.
Identify ecologically sensitive zones that are ecologically and economically important yet fragile, and learn how regulation around protected areas minimizes impacts under environmental protection acts.
Examine global population growth from early agriculture to seven point eight billion, and how rising consumption drives demand for resources, ecological footprints, and potential planetary limits by 2100.
Analyze GDP as the monetary value of goods and services produced. Explore how economic growth boosted global prosperity, population growth, and the tragedy of the commons.
The UN global assessment report on disaster risk reduction analyzes how rising greenhouse gases, warming temperatures, and sea-level rise threaten human well-being and livelihoods.
Explore the global framework for environment, tracing a shift from overexploitation to conservation, and international agreements led by the United Nations and UNEP, covering Kyoto, Paris, and SDGs.
Explore transboundary mechanisms for enrichment and how upstream pollution, emissions, and ecosystem degradation affect downstream regions within a shared global environmental system, urging policies for no carbon emission and well-being.
Implement the Environment Protection Act 1986 in India, effective since November 19, 1986, to achieve sustainable development and protect life under Article 21, by preventing and controlling pollution.
This lecture describes the important stages in EIA.
Weather, Climate, Greenhouse Gas Effect, and Global warming are explained.
This lecture details global warming, concepts of greenhouse gases, and its triggering effects on climate change.
This lecture is about climate negotiations that took place globally starting 1951 till 1999.
This lecture deals with global climate negotiations beyond the year 2000.
This lecture details the bottom-up activities as part of partners in recovery and in particular details the Global climate strike.
Explore climate change mitigation through ecosystem solutions, bending the curve by cutting emissions 50–80% by 2050 and pursuing carbon neutrality by 2100, guided by integral ecology and climate justice.
The Learner is introduced to the terms, concepts, and practices in the broad domain of Environment Management. The terms such as Nature Deficit Disorder, Timeline of Life, Concepts of Environment, the System Concepts, Ecosystem, Ecosystem Services, Natural Capital, Biological Footprint, the Nature Compass, Environment Impact Assessment, the IPAT model and Global Framework for Environment are discussed in details. Global warming, Climate negotiations and Global Climate strikes are also discussed. A few quizzes are given with every lecture and a terminal quiz is included to consolidate learning experiences. A few case studies are included with a view to reinforcing the learning experiences.