Environmental Policy and Administration

Paper Code: 
PAD 323-B
Credits: 
4
Contact Hours: 
60.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

Course Objective: To provide an overview of economic policies impacting Indian economy in the overall context of national economic development and globalization and to examine the role of Economics in the governance and administration in India with specific reference to selected Programmes/ Schemes in a welfare state.

 

Learning Outcome:

· Understanding of environmental management in relation to the major principles of sustainable development.

·Analyze various policies related to environment, water, air, natural resources.

· Ability to  translate generic concepts and methods into critical reviews of contemporary, real-world environmental management practices.

Critically assess theoretical and conceptual issues relating to environmental management

9.00

Environment and Ecology, Environmental Components and Biosphere, Environmental Governance: Stockholm (1972) to the present

12.00

Environment Problems, Environmental Pollution: Causes and factors. Natural Resource Management, Environmental Management in India- Constitutional provisions Relating to Environmental Planning and Environment Protection - National Environment Policy.

14.00

Policies related to Water, Energy and Natural Resources; Environmental Audit; Role of Citizen and Participatory Management. National, State and District Institutional Arrangements with special reference to Green Administrative Tribunal.

 

 

13.00

Environmental Policies and Their Implementation -Forestry Sector, Wild Life and Pollution. with special emphasis on Forest Conservation Act,1980, Challenges and Issues -Solid waste and its Management, Air Pollution, Air Quality Management, The Problems of Large Multipurpose Projects and Hazardous Substances, Urban Development

 

12.00

Climate Change -National Plan for Climate Change; IPCC and recent Developments International Climate Agreements, Global and local Environmental issues, National Environmental Laws and Acts National and International Best Practices

Essential Readings: 
  • Hoshiar Singh (ed.): Environment Policy and Administration, Jaipur, Printwell

Publishers, 1992.

  • Shyam Divan & Annin Rosenerang: Environmental Law and Policy in India, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2001.
  • Shekhar Singh (ed.): Environmental Policy in India, New Delhi, IIPA 1984.
  • India, NCEP: Draft Report of the State of the Environment, Delhi, December 1981.
  • O.P.Dwivedi, India: Pollution Control Policy and Programmes, International Review of Administrative Sciences, vol. XLIII, Nos. 2, 1977.
  • S.C. Bhatia (ed.): Papers in Environmental Education, Indian University Association for Continuing Education, 1981.
  • A.K. Sharma and A. Sharma (ed.): Impact of the Development of Science and
  • Technology on Environment, Indian Science Congress Association, 1981.
  • Desh Bandhu: Environmental Management, Indian Environmental Society, 1981.
  • UNESCO: "Environmental Education in Asia and the Pacific" Bulletin of the UNESCO Regional Office for Education in Asia and the Pacific 1981.
  • H.N.Tiwari: Environmental Law, Allahabad Law Agency, Faridabad, 2001.
  • V.N. Srivastava & B.P. Rai, Environment and Ecology, Vasundra Publications, Gurakhpur, 1998
  • Report of the Committee for Recommending Legislative Measures and Administrative Machinery for Ensuring Environmental Protection, Department of Science and Technology, 1980.

 

Academic Session: 
2020-21
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