Human - environment relationship, normative criteria, descriptive and prescriptive models, limits of growth; Environmental and natural resources economics, pollution control policy, growth in a finite environment; Environmental protection laws; Numerical/mathematical modelling of environmental systems, subsystems, and pollutant transport processes; Planning and management of environmental systems: optimization techniques, stochastic modelling, statistical inferences; Large scale systems; Optimal monitoring network design, identification of sources; Risk reliability and uncertainty in environmental systems; Topics in groundwater and surface water quality management. |
Text/Reference Books:
- Schnoor J.L.Environmental Modelling, Wiley-interscience.
- Boubel R.W., Fox D.L., Turner D.B. and. Stern A.C.Fundamentals of Air Pollution, Academic Press, New York.
- Thomann R.V. and Muller J.A.Principles of Surface Water Quality Modelling and Control, Harper International Edition.
- Tchobanoglous G. and Schroeder E.D.Water Quality, Addison – Wesley Publishing Company, Reading, Massachusetts.
- Welford R.Corporate Environmental Management, Earthscan Publications Limited, London.
- Rosencranz A., Divan S. and Noble M.L.Environmental Law and Policy in India: Cases, Materials and Statutes, Tripathi Pvt. Ltd, Bombay.
- Asolekar S.R. and Gopichandran R.Preventive Environmental Management - An Indian Perspective, Foundation Books Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi (The Indian Association of Cambridge University Press, UK).
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