ENVIRONMENT & ECOLOGY Module 15 days Target UPSC PT 2019 from 15 January

Venue: 2nd Floor Third Chamber Batra Complex, NEAR RAHUL IAS, Mukherjee Nagar Delhi

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THE CORE IAS      Target 2018 &19

Environment : BASIC & Current

Basic Start Date: 15th to 28 January 

Classes: In Both Hindi & English Medium

Topics to be Covered

1.ECOLOGY & Its Component

• Biotic
• Abiotic
• Energy

2. Biotic Factors & Interaction with Environment

• Amensalism
• Predation
• Parasitism
• Competition
• Commensalism
• Mutualism

3. Ecological Principles & Properties

• Homeostasis
• Hierarchy Principle

4. Ecosystem Dynamism

• Ecological Production & Productivity
• Food Chain
• Food Web
• Ecological Pyramid
• Energy Flow
• Sere
• Bio Accumulation
• Bio Magnification
• Biological Succession
• Ecological Services

5. Biogeochemical cycle

• Nitrogen
• Carbon
• Phosphorus
• Sulphor

2.BIODIVERSITY

1. 1. Definition
2. Biodiversity

Levels Of Biodiversity

• Genetic,
• Species
•  Ecological

Measurement of Biodiversity

• Alpha
• Beta
• Gama diversity

3. Distribution: Terrestrial, Marine
4. 4. Types of Species

• Keystone Species
•  Indicator Species
•  Umbrella Species
•  Indigenous Species
•  Edge Species
• Invasive Alien Species

5.Threat to biodiversity

6.Other Concepts

• Concept of Ecotone
• Edge Effect

• Biodiversity Conservation (In Situ, Ex Situ)
• Bio Prospecting & Bio Piracy
• CBD (Cartagena & Nagoya)

• CBD Law 2002, TKDL

7. Various Indian Laws (1960 to 2006)

• Prevention of Cruelty to  animal act
• Wildlife act 1972
• Water act 1974
• Air act 1981
• EPA 1986
• Biodiversity act
• Forest Right act 2006

8. BioDiverse Area

• Biosphere Reserve
• Man & Biosphere Reserve
• Biodiversity Hot Spot
• World Heritage sites
• .IUCN & Red Data Bok

9. India Conservation Effort

• Project Tiger 1973
• Project Elephant 1992
• Project Hangul
• Vulture Conservation
• Crocodile Conservation
• Snow Leopard
• One Horn Rhino
• Ganges Dolphin

	3. Environment Pollution

 

1. Type :

• Primary & Secondary
• Qualitative & Quantitative,
• Biodegradable & Non Biodegradable

1. AIR POLLUTION

• Sources
• Control Measures
• Smog
• Fly Ash
• India  Indexes (AQI, NAQI , CEPI etc)
• Ozone Layer

• CBDR & RC
• Montreal to Kigali
• ODS
• CFC
• HFC
• HFC 22
• Article 5 Group 1
• Article 5 Group 2
• Non Article 5 Countries

• Acid Rain
• Freezing Year
• Baseline Year

1. Water Pollution

• Point Sources & Non Point Sources
• Eutrophication
• Red Algal Bloom
• Dead Zones
• Pollution Check ( BoD & CoD)
• Ocean Acidification

1. Noise Pollution
2. E-Waste
3. Solid Waste
4. Land degradation
5. Biodiesel

• 1^st Generation
• 2^nd Generation
• 3^rd Generation
• 4^th Generation
• BS Standard
• Methanol & Ethanol

4.CLIMATE CHANGE & INTERNATIONAL PROTOCOL

1.BASIC CONCEPT

• Global Warming
• Green House Effect
• Green House Gas
• Carbon Emission
• Green House gas Potential
• Impact of Climate Change
• Carbon Capture / Carbon Sequestration: Geoengineering
  • • Green Carbon, Blue Carbon
• Carbon Credit
• Carbon Offsetting

CLIMATE CHANGE & International Effort: 1972 to 2017

• 1972 Conference
• WCC
• 1987 : World Commission on Environment and Development (Our Common Future)
• 1988: IPCC

• National Green House Gas Inventories Programme

• 1992 (United Nations Conference on Environment and Development)

• UNCBD
• UNFCCC
• UNCBD
• Agenda 21
• Rio Declaration
• Forest Principle
• Commission on sustainable Development
• GEF

• Green International
  1997 Kyoto (General Assembly Special Session on the Environment)

• LULUCF
• CDM
• JI
• AAU
• Certified emission reduction
• Emission reduction unit
• Annex Countries, Non Annex Countries
• Annex A, Annex B

• 2001 Marakesh Accord

• Adaptation Fund
• Mitigation Fund
• Special Climate Change Fund
• Least Developed Countries Fund

• 2002 (World Summit on Sustainable Development)
• 2005 Kyoto Enforcement
• 2008 REDD

• Forest Investment Program
• BioCarbon Fund Initiative for Sustainable Forest Landscapes
• Forest Carbon Partnership Facility

• Readiness Fund and the Carbon Fund

• 2010 GCF
• 2012 (UN Conference on Sustainable Development ): Report The future we want“
• 2013 (Warsea International Mechanism)
• 2015

• Paris Summit
• INDC

• 2016

• Corsia
• London on Shipping
• Marrakesh
• Climate Vulnerable Forum
• Under2s, Coalition
• 2050 Pathway Platform
• U.N. Conference On Housing And Sustainable Urban Development

• 2017

Other Protocol & Convention

• Basel
• Stockholm
• Aarhus Convention
• Espoo Convention
• Convention on Long­Range Transboundary Air Pollution (CLRTAP)
• Ramsar

• Montreux
• Changwon declaration

Other Environmental Institution

World

• IUCN
• WWF
• UNEP
• IMO
• FAO
• WCS
• Wetland International
• Birdlife International
• GEF
• ITTO
• Global Green Growth Institute
• Arctic Council UNESCO
• MFF
• Snow Leopard
• TURTALE SURVIVA ALLIANCE
• Coalition against Wildlife Trafficking (CAWT)
• GIHAS

• The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity
• TRAFFIC
• CA|TS

INDIAN INSTITUTIONS

• BNHS
• Birderspics
• NGT
• Other Covered with Indian Laws
• EESL
• BEE
• National Afforestation and Eco development Board
• CAMPA

• TERI (lightning a Billion Lives, Urban Service Environmental Rating System))

5.MISC

 

• NAPCC
• Namami Gange
• Eco Mark
• Bee Rating
• Ganga Action Plan
• NGRB
• GRIHA
• LEED