Environmental Sustainability
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Environmental Sustainability Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Environmental Sustainability (subject code 3144006) as prescribed for Civil Infra · Semester 4 divides the course into 7 units, covering 24 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (3144006)Unit 1 Principles of Sustainable development
- Pillars of sustainability-Social
- Environmental and Economy
- Sub domain of sustainability-cultural
- technological and political
- Socio-ecological process
- Ways of sustainable living
- Introduction to Concepts of Green chemistry
Unit 2 Ecosystem
- Health of ecosystem
- Protecting the long-term productivity and health of resources to meet future economic and social needs
- protecting food supplies
- farm land and fishing stocks
Unit 3 Pollution control
- Types of Pollutants
- Effects of Pollutants
- Avoiding excess Pollution
Unit 4 Renewable resources
- Shift to Renewable resources
- Use of solar
- geo-thermal energy
- Renewable vs Non-Renewable resources
- Semi- Renewable resources
Unit 5 Concept of Cleaner Production, Definition of Cleaner Production, Cleaner Production,
- Good House Keeping checklist
Unit 6 Green Productivity concepts, methodology & techniques, Guidelines of APO on Green
- CEPI Index
Unit 7 Policies to promote environmental sustainability
- Carbon Tax
- Government regulation
- Environmental consequences. 6 Subject Code: 3144006 w.e.f