Enviroment Communication

Syllabus 
Unit I: [Environment and Media]
1. Environment: Definition, Scope and Importance
2. Environment Communication: Definition, Concept and Need for Public Awareness
3. Natural Resources: Associated Problems and Law (Forest, Water, Mineral, Food, Energy and Land Resources)
4. Role of Individual and Media in Conservation of Natural Resources

Unit II: [Ecosystem and Media]
1. Ecosystem: Concept, Structure and Functions
2. Ecological Succession: Types and Stages
3. Biodiversity: Definition and Concept

• a. Threats to Biodiversity (Global, National & Local): Habitat Loss, Poaching of Wildlife,
• Man-wildlife conflicts
• b. Endangered and Endemic Species of India

4. Role of Multi- Media in Sensitising Masses towards Ecosystem

Unit III: [Environmental Disaster and Media]
1. Environmental pollution: Definition, Causes, Effects and Control Measures of Air, Water, Soil, Marine,
Noise, Thermal Pollution and Nuclear hazards
2. Role of Govt. (NEMA, National Green Tribunal) and NGOs in Protecting Environment
3. Disaster Management: Concept, Need and Importance; Role of NDMA
4. Media Intervention in Disaster Management

Unit IV: [Environment and Human Welfare]
1. Industrialisation, Consumerism and Development
2. Global Warming and Climate Change: Shift to Alternate Sources of Energy
3. Environment and Social Movements: Chipko Movement, Narmada Bachao Andolan
4. Media, Environment and Human Welfare