Multiple Media Course Content- MSD 012: Ecosystem and Natural Resources
MASS- Only Sustainability Science Course in India
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Post-Admission Process: Comprehending the Learning Process and Your Responsibility
1.Self Learning Material
1.Self Learning Material
Block 1: Ecosystem and Biodiversity
Block 1: Ecosystem and Biodiversity
In this block we have discussed about the ecology, ecosytem and its types, ecosytem services, importance of biodiversity, factors responsible for biodiversity loss and conservation and management of biodiversity in different units. Click here to read.
Block 2: Land and Water Resources
Block 2: Land and Water Resources
This is the second block of the course ‘Ecosystem and Natural Resources’ and discuss the concept of land, soil and water as resource. Click here to read.
Block 3: Energy & Mineral Resources
Block 3: Energy & Mineral Resources
In this block we will make an attempt to understand importance of natural resources, resource management, types of energy resources, non renewable and alternative resources, mineral resources and sustainable issues related to energy and mineral resources. Click here to read.
Block 4: Agrobiodiversity: Status and Issues
Block 4: Agrobiodiversity: Status and Issues
The major focus of this block is on the issues related to agrobiodiversity, factors responsible for depleting biodiversity, sustainable use of agrobiodiversity and sustainable management of biodiversity. Click here to read.
2. Web Resources
2. Web Resources
Alan Wild. 2003. Soils, Land and Food: Managing the land during the twenty-first century. University of Cambridge.
Anon. 2006. Sustainable Land Management: Challenges, Opportunities, and Trade-offs. The World Bank, Washington, DC.
Dan Cogălniceanu (2007). Biodiversity. Kessel Publishing House, Germany.
3. Video Resources
3. Video Resources
Ecosystem and Natural Resources: Brief overview
Ecosystem Services
Loss of Biodiversity:Causes and Consequences
Biodiversity Conservation: Global Common Efforts
Resources and the concept of Renewability
SDG7: Affordable and Clean Energy
Conservation of Resources and Energy-1
Importance of Agrobiodiversity
Management of Agrobiodiversity
AGROBIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION: RECOGNISING THE ROLE OF TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE AND FARMERS PARTCIPATION
Concept of Ecology and Ecosystem: Ecosystem Structure
Biodiversity: Concept and Evolution
Pattern of Biodiversity Loss
SDG 14: Life Below Water
Exploitation of Resources and its management
Mineral Resources
Conservation of Resources and Energy-2
Shrinking Agrobiodiversity: an overview
Policy Framework for Agrobiodiversity Conservation
Concept of Ecology and Ecosystem: Ecosystem Function
Biodiversity: Status and Distribution
Conservation of Biodiversity: Basic Approaches
Soil and its formation
Energy Storage
Mining and its waste management
Agrobiodiversity and centre of origin of cultivated plants
EFFECTS OF AGRICULTURE ON AGROBIODIVERSITY
PROMOTING AGROBIODIVERSITY: CHALLENGES
Agrodiversity Hotspots
Land Degradation Neutral World
Resource Efficiency & Sustainable Development
Managing water resources
The Future of Water
UN biodiversity report: What extinctions mean for humanity
Biodiversity loss/extinction rates
Biodiversity "Global" Status | Deforestation Initiative
What future is there for global biodiversity?
4.FURTHER READINGS
4.FURTHER READINGS
Anil Kumar De - Environmental Chemistry, 1997
Bardgetts, R.D. 2005. The Biology of Soil: A Community and Ecosystem Approach. Oxford University Press, pp 242.
Brady, R.L. and Weil, R.R. 1999. The Nature and Properties of Soils, 13th edn. Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ.
FAO. (2005). The state of food insecurity in the world. FAO, Rome, Italy.
Gilbert M. Masters - Introduction to Environmental Science and Engineering, Prentice Hall of India Private Limited, New Delhi, 1998
Lossau, Annette von, and Qingsong Li (Eds., 2011): Sourcebook on Sustainable Agrobioidiversity Management, Social Sciences Academic Press (P.R. China).
McKinney ML and Schoch RM (1998). Environmental Science: Systems and Solutions. Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Boston. 639 pp.
Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (2005). Ecosystems and Human Well-being: Synthesis. Island Press, Washington DC.
Odum, E.P. (1959). Fundamentals of Ecology. Saunders, Philadelphia.
Raghunath., H. M - Hydrology, Mohindar Singh Sejwal for Wiley Eastern Limited, New Delhi, India. (1988),
Schmitz, O. J. (2007) Ecology and Ecosystem Conservation. Island Press, Washington, DC
Selim Kapur, Hari Eswaran, and W. E. H. Blum. 2011. Sustainable Land Management: Learning from the Past for the Future. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.
Stanly Manahan - Environmental Chemistry, Mc Graw Hill Publishing company, 1999
Tim O’Riordan and Susanne Stoll-Kleemann (2002). Biodiversity, Sustainability and Human Communities: Protecting beyond the Protected. Cambridge University Press.
White, R.E. 2006. Principles and Practices of Soil Science. Blackwell Publishing. Pp 363
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