Syllabus Unit Details

Teachers

Dates

Unit-1: Environmental Education

09.04.25

• Concept, definition, and significance of environmental education
• Genesis of environmental education, Tbilisi Declaration 1977
• Philosophy of environmental education
• Environmental awareness vis a vis environmental education

 Dola Chakraborty

16.04.25,

21.04.25

 Arundhati Bhattacharya

23.04.25,

28.04.25

Unit-2: Rules and regulations of environment

• Necessity and different types of rules and regulations, mistakes in implementing of environmental rules, problems in implementing environmental rules.
• Environment Laws in India: Wildlife (Protection) Act; Forest (Conservation) Act; Water (Prevention and control of Pollution) Act; Air (Prevention & Control of Earth Pollution) Act; Environment Protection Act; Biodiversity Act
  • International agreements: Montreal Protocol, Kyoto protocol and climate negotiations; Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)

 Nirmalya Shee

30.04.25,

05.05.25

Kalyanashish Bhattacharya

07.05.25,

19.05.25

Debjani Mukherjee

21.05.25

Unit-3:  Human Communities and the Environment

• Human population growth: Impacts on environment, human health and welfare.
• Concept of Resettlement and Rehabilitation.
• Environmental movements: Bishnoi, Chipko, Silent Valley, Big dam movements.
• Environmental ethics: Types, ecofeminism, role of cultures in env. conservation.

Debjani Mukherjee

26.05.25

Samragni Bhattacharya

28.05.25,

02.06.25

Unit-4: Disaster Awareness

• Fundamentals of hazard, disaster, risk and vulnerability.
• Disaster classification, Natural Disasters - floods, earthquake, cyclone, tsunami and landslide; Manmade Disasters.
• Case Studies: Minamata disaster, Bhopal gas disaster, Fukushima nuclear disaster, Kedarnath flood, Cyclone Aila, COVID-19.
• Disaster management, Disaster warning systems.

Nibedita Chakraborty

04.06.25,

11.06.25

Rajarshi Roy

09.06.25,

16.06.25

Subrata Ghosh

23.06.25

Unit-5: Role of environmental education for protecting environment

• Lifelong learning procedure. Pedagogy in environmental education; Formal and informal environmental education (Exhibition, role playing ability, quiz, debate, field trip, demonstration, project, poster presentation, seminar, eco-club).
• Role of NGOs and Government institutions. 
• Role of IT and mass media: Print, Electronic and social media.

Samit Bhanja

18.06.25,

25.06.25

Anish Darnal

30.06.25,

02.07.25