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मानविकी और सामाजिक विज्ञान विभाग
राष्ट्रीय विज्ञान शिक्षा एवं अनुसंधान संस्थान

SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE EDUCATION AND RESEARCH
 

Under Graduate Course

HS 110 Technical Communication II
HS 110

Approval: UG-Core

Credit: 4

Syllabus:

Outcome of the Course: At the time of completing this course, a student is expected to – a) be familiar with the essentials of effective communication, b) know the different tools of effective technical communication, c) understand the importance of staging the argument d) know various institutional / disciplinary norms
Course Contents: 1. The logic of Critique: Notions of evidence, proof and fact 2. Humanities and empiricism: Empirical fallacy and social intervention 3. Mechanics of Writing II: The forms of knowledge production. Understanding readership. 4. The Rhetorical Process II: Staging the argument. Perspective and Institutional / Disciplinary norms. 5. Narrativizing the Sciences: Scientific correspondence and reflections. Popular science and Science fiction.

Reference Books

  1. Baudrillard, Jean (2012). The Ecstasy of Communication. Cambridge: MIT Press.
  2. Fogelin, Robert (2014). Cengage Advantage Books: Understanding Arguments. London: Wadsworth.
  3. Heidegger, Martin (2008).“The question concerning technology,”Basic Writings. New York: Harper Collins.
  4. Poovey, Mary (1998). A History of the Modern Fact. Chicago: University of Chicago press.
  5. Strunk Jr, William (1767). The Elements of Style: TheOriginal Edition (2014). London: Dover.
HS 109 Technical Communication I
HS 109

Approval: UG-Core

Credit: 4

Syllabus:

Outcome of the course:
1) Connecting Language and cultural contexts.
2) Understand the process behind writing.
3) Learn to critically engage with texts.
Course Contents:
Ideations of Science: Categorization and social perspective. {5 hrs}
Inscription and thematerial arts: Scientific representation and the figural social. {5 hrs}
Mechanics of Writing: Structure and compositional logic. {6 hrs}
The Rhetorical Process: Building the argument. {6 hrs}
Cultural Context and the Sciences: Literature and the aesthetic of science. {6 hrs}

Reference Books

  1. Barrass, Robert (2002). Scientists Must Write: A Guide to Better Writing for Scientists, Engineers and Students. London: Routledge.
  2. Booth, Vernon (1993). Communicating in Science: Writing a Scientific Paper and Speaking at Scientific Meetings. Cambridge: Cambridge UP.
  3. Cottrell, Stella (2011). Critical Thinking Skills: Developing Effective Analysis and Argument. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
  4. Lynn, Steven (2010). Rhetoric and Composition: An Introduction. Cambridge: Cambridge UP.
  5. Ranciere, Jacques (1991). The Ignorant Schoolmaster.Redwood:Stanford UP.
  6. Ehrlich, Eugene (2011). Schaum's Outline of English Grammar, Third Edition. NY: Schaum’s.
H 133 Introduction to Sociology
H 133

Approval: UG-Core

Credit: 4

Syllabus:

Course Outcome:

  • Sociological insights that are meaningful and of practical importance to students
  • Students should be able to meaningfully relate themselves to their immediate social environment.
  • Students should be able to view human interaction and inter-personal relationship from sociological perspectives and be able to assess them in the context of their own unique setting.
  • To equip the students to develop an objective view of social reality
  • To understand the structure and functioning of the society and its consequent processes of social change.
Course Outline
Origin and Growth of Sociology
  • Origin and development of sociology as a separate discipline
  • Nature and Scope of Sociology
  • Sociology as a Scientific Discipline
Sociological Perspectives
Conflict, Functionalism and Interactionism
Basic Sociological Concepts
  • Society, Community, Association, Institution, Status and Role
  • Types of Society: From early hunting gathering to industrial development and globalization
  • Culture: Components of culture; Norms, values, folkways, mores, Cultural unity and diversity.
  • Socialization: Agents of Socialization, Early development of infant, stages of socialization
Social Groups
Meaning of Social Groups and Types: Primary Group, Secondary Group, In-Groups, Out- Group, Quasi- Group, Reference Group
Structure and Stratification
  • Structure, System and Function, caste and class and Racial and Ethnic group inequalities
  • Social Stratification: Meaning and Types, Functionalist and Conflict Perspectives of Stratification
  • Social mobility: Meaning, horizontal and vertical mobility, class vs poverty
Social Institutions
Family, marriage and kinship, religion, economy & work, power & polity and education. Functionalist and Conflict Perspectives of institutions. Organization and bureaucracy.
Social processes and Change
  • Social Processes: Co-operation, accommodation, integration, competition and conflict.
  • Social Change: Meaning and Definition, Factors of change.
  • Social control : Meaning and Types

Text Books

  1. Essential Readings:
  2. Harlambous, M. (1980) Sociology, Oxford University Press, New Delhi.
  3. Inkeles, A. (1982). What is Sociology, Eastern Economic Edition, New Delhi
  4. Johnson, H.M. (1991). Sociology – A Systematic Introduction, Allied Publishers, New Delhi
  5. MacIver, R.M. and Page, C.H.(1993). Society : An Introductory Analysis, Macmillan India, New Delhi
  6. Bottomore, T.B. (2000). Sociology: A Guide to Problems and Literature, S Chand Publisher, Dehradun
  7. Gisbert, P. (2004, 3 rd edition). Fundamentals of Sociology, Orient Longman
  8. Rao, C.N.(2001) Sociology, Rawat Publication, Jaipur
  9. Giddens, A. (2001). Sociology, Polity Press, UK.
  10. Supplementary Readings:
  11. Srinivas, M.N. (1985). Social Change in Modern India, Orient Longman, New Delhi.
  12. Fulcher, J and J. Scott, (2003), Sociology, Oxford University Press, Oxford.
  13. Giddens, A. (1971) Capitalism and Modern Social Theory, Cambridge University Press
  14. Scott J and Marshall, G. (2009) Oxford Dictionary of Sociology
  15. Bauman, Z. (1990). Thinking Sociologically: An Introduction for Everyone, Basil Blackwell, Cambridge.
  16. Coser, L. (1996). Masters of Sociological Thought, Rawat Publication, Jaipur
  17. Abraham F and Morgan J H (1985). Sociological Thought, Macmillan, New Delhi.
H 101 Introduction to Economics
H 101

Approval: UG-Core

Credit: 4

Syllabus:

Outcome of the Course:
Students will be familiar with the basic concepts of economics used in daily life of an ordinary person. This can be used as background knowledge for other courses in economics
Course Contents:
1. Definition and Scope of Economics 3 lectures
2. Law of Demand 2 lectures
3. Law of Supply 2 lectures
4. Price Determination 1 lectures
5. Inflation, types of inflation, impacts, measures to control inflation 4 lectures
6. Monetary Policy, Fiscal Policy 4 lectures
7. Role of Government in modern society 2 lectures
8. Sources of Revenue and expenditures for the Union, State and Local government 5 lectures
9. Balance of payment, exchange rate determination, types of exchange rate 3 lectures
10. Basic ideas on the BSE and NSE 2 lecture.

Reference Books

  1. India Budget and State Budgets
  2. Indian Public Finance Statistics
  3. RBI Handbook of Statistics on Indian Economy

Text Books

  1. Case, Karl E. and Fair Ray C.(2007) Principles of Economics, Pearson Education Inc. 8th Edition
HS 210 The City in Modern Fiction
HS 210

Approval: UG-Elective

Credit: 4

Syllabus:

Outcome of the Course:

  • To learn to read critically.
  • To learn to contextualize concepts and themes using the framework of the ‘modern.’
  • To learn structural elements, such as plot, setting, characters, techniques of exposition, that underpins fiction.

Course Content:

[The following list is indicative. Selections will vary each time the course is offered. The content to be discussed in class would include mostly short fiction and selected excerpts. Rather than getting through the entirety of the given syllabus, priority will be given to a better understanding of selections based on participant feedback, as such allotted hours for each text could also vary. The course will have a two hour introductory module.]

  1. R K Narayan Malgudi Days (2 hours)
  2. Charles Dickens Hard Times (4 hours)
  3. James Joyce Dubliners (3 hours)
  4. Italo Calvino Invisible Cities (3 hours)
  5. Sadat Hassan Manto Bombay Stories (3 hours)
  6. Amitav Ghosh Calcutta Chromosome (4 hours)
  7. Manoj Das Crocodile’s Lady (2 hours)
  8. Amruta Patil Kaari (2 hours)
  9. Colson Whitehead The Intuitionist (3 hours)

Reference Books

  1. Alter, Robert. Imagined Cities: Urban Experience and the Language of the Novel. Yale UP, 2008.
  2. Bachelard, Gaston. Poetics of Space. Beacon Press, 1994.
  3. Caws, Mary A. (Ed). City Images: Perspectives From Literature, Philosophy, and Film. Routledge, 1991.
  4. Correa, Charles. A Place in the Shade. New Delhi, Penguin, 2010.
  5. De Certeau, Michel. The Practice of Everyday Life. Translated by Steven Rendall, 3 rd ed., U of California Press, 2011.
  6. Donald, James. Imagining the Modern City. U of Minnesota Press, 1999.
  7. Dubey, Madhu. Signs and Cities. U of Chicago Press, 2003.
  8. Edwards, Sarah and Jonathan Charley, editors. Writing theModern City. London, Routledge, 2011.
  9. Kalia, Ravi. Bhubaneswar : From a Temple Town to Capital City. Southern Illinois UP, 1995.
  10. Pike, Burton. The Image of the City in Modern Literature. Princeton UP, 2018.
  11. Soja, Edward W. Seeking Spatial Justice. U of Minnesota Press, 2010.
  12. Tuan, Yi-Fu. Space and Place: The Perspective of Experience. U of Minnesota Press, 1979.
  13. Williams, Raymond. The Country and the City. Oxford, OUP, 1975.
HS 209 Speculative Fiction
HS 209

Approval: UG-Elective

Credit: 4

Syllabus:

Outcome of the Course : 

At the time of completing this course, a student is expected to have enough knowledge of

  • the literary, social, political and genre importance of Speculative Fiction in the contemporary times as well as historically,
  • a detailed overview of the way Speculative Fiction has developed historically,
  • some important works in Speculative Fiction , and the rich diversity in the field,
  • not just the Western tradition of Speculative Fiction, but also the Indian tradition of Speculative Fiction, from ancient times to the present,
  • some of the oft-occurring themes such as utopias, dystopias, and issues of gender, class, environment, multiculturalism, technology, myth-making, alternate history, etc.

Course Contents:

Introduction to Speculative Fiction (7 hours)

Introducing Speculative Fiction, History and Ontology of Speculative Fiction, Western and Indian tradition of Speculative Fiction, Gothic Writing as a Precursor to Science Fiction, Blurring the boundaries between Horror and Science Fiction (Bram Stoker’s Dracula and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein), Fantasy and Fairy Tales, Speculative Fiction in popular culture (proliferation of pulp magazines in the early and mid-20 th Century, Films, TV Series), A brief overview of the literary oeuvre of major Speculative Fiction writers from the West as well as from India

Utopian and Dystopian Speculative Fiction (7 hours)

Exploring the issues of class, society, technological advancement, ecology, gender, political ideology, culture, history, capitalism, communism, etc. in select Utopian and Dystopian

Speculative Fiction:

Relevant Texts to be discussed:

  • Thomas More’s Utopia (1516)
  • H. G. Wells’ The Time Machine (1895)
  • Walter M. Miller, Jr.’s “I Made You” (1954)
  • Frederic Brown’s “Answer” (1964)
  • Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness (1969)

Indian Speculative Fiction (7 hours)

What exactly is Indian Speculative Fiction?, Tradition of Speculative Fiction Writing from ancient times to the present, a discussion on some of the major Indian practitioners of Speculative Fiction, close reading of select Indian Speculative Fiction Texts

Relevant Texts to be discussed:

  • Kylas Chunder Dutt’s “A Journal of Forty-eight Hours of the Year 1945” (1835)
  • Shoshee Chunder Dutt’s Republic of Orissa: Annals from the Pages of the Twentieth Century (1845)
  • Jagadish Chandra Bose’s “Runaway Cyclone” (1921)
  • Anil Menon’s The Beast with Nine Billion Feet (2009)
  • Vandana Singh’s “The Woman who thought she was a Planet” (2009)
  • Samit Basu’s Turbulence (2010)

Myth-making and Rewritings of Mythologies (7 hours)

“…science fiction, especially in its most popular, epic literary and cinematic space opera format, is basically mythology and myth-making…for the present day.” - Malan Kazlev

An attempt will be made, through a discussion of select speculative fiction, how new myths are created, old myths are re-imagined and also how the genre of speculative fiction is a fertile ground for mythologies to be re-written in new and interesting ways.

Relevant Texts to be discussed:

  • Margaret Atwood’s The Penelopiad (2005)
  • Indrapramit Das’s “Sita’s Descent” (2012)
  • Manjula Padmanabhan’s “The Other Woman” (2012)
  • Swapna Kishore’s “Regressions” (2012)
  • Tabis Khair’s “Weak Heart” (2012)
  • Pervin Saket’s Urmila (2016)

H 239 Introduction to Innovation System
H 239

Approval: UG-Elective

Credit: 4

Syllabus:

Outcome of the course:

  • Understand the issues around defining technology and innovation.
  • Know the characteristics of innovation processes and the factors that shape and drive innovation.
  • Recognize the diversity of types of innovation, innovators and innovation settings.
  • Understand the nature and extent of scientific & technological change and innovation.

Course Contents:

  • Nature of innovation (5 hrs)
  • The innovative firm (3 hrs)
  • Innovation processes (4 hrs)
  • Regional innovation system (4 hrs)
  • Innovation and IPR (4 hrs)
  • Education, universities and national innovation system (3 hrs )
  • Multinational enterprises and innovation processes (3 hrs)
  • Science and innovation policy (2 hrs)

Reference Books

  1. B. Lundvall, National Systems of Innovation: Towards a Theory of Innovation and Interactive
  2. Learning, Pinter, London: 1992.
  3. C. Christensen, The Innovators Dilemma, Harvard University Press, Boston: 1997.
  4. E. Dundon, The Seeds of Innovation: Cultivating the Synergy that Fosters New Ideas, Amacom
  5. Books, New York: 2002.
  6. H. Braczyk, et.al, Regional Innovation Systems, UCL Press, London: 1998.
  7. K. Pavitt, Technology Management and Systems of Innovation, Cheltenham: 1999.
  8. M. Gibbons et.al, The New Production of Knowledge – the Dynamics of Science and Research in
  9. Contemporary Societies, Sage, London: 1994.
  10. P. Drucker, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Harper Collins Publishers, New York: 1993.
  11. R. Katz, The Human Side of Managing Technological Innovation, Oxford University Press, New
  12. York: 2004.
  13. S. Borras, The Innovation Policy of the EU, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham: 2003.
H 238 Life and Community in Urban World
H 238

Approval: UG-Elective

Credit: 4

Syllabus:

Outcome of the course:

  • Analyze urbanization processes and their contribution to human wellbeing.
  • Understand how and why different forms of urbanization in countries have developed, and their implications for population and society.
  • Understand the socio-political conditions of metropolitan areas and their impacts on individuals, institutions and society.
  • Understand the relationship between planning, property development and urban growth.

Course Contents:

  • Introduction, Urban space and urban thought (3 class)
  • Urbanization, Emergence and evolution of cities & Urban life (5 class + 1 tutorial)
  • Urban communities, Communities online and offline (4 class)
  • The city in context, Migration, Sorting and niches, (4 class + 1tutorial)
  • Markets & networks, City infrastructure, Growth & management (3 class)
  • Suburbia, Urban ecology (3 class)
  • Urban design, Policy and planning (3 class + 1tutorial)

Reference Books

  1. Suggested References:
  2. B. Wellman, Networks in the Global Village, Westview Press, Boulder, CO: 1999.
  3. C.S. Fischer, and R.K. Merton, The Urban Experience, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P, Boston:1984.
  4. E. Ben-Joseph and T. Szold (eds.), Regulating Place: Standards and the Shaping of Urban America, Routledge: New York: 2005.
  5. J. Logan and H. Molotch. Urban Fortunes: Toward a Political Economy of Place, University of California Press, California: 2007.
  6. R.W. Park, E.W. Burgess and M. Janowitz (eds.), The City, University of Chicago Press, Chicago: 1984.
  7. S. Sassen, Cities in a World Economy, Pine Forge Press, California: 2011.
  8. S. Zukin, The Culture of Cities, Blackwell, New York: 1995.
  9. W.G. Flanagan, Urban Sociolog
H 237 Science Communication and the Citizen
H 237

Approval: UG-Elective

Credit: 4

Syllabus:

Outcome of the course:

  • Explain the importance of citizen character and science communication in present day society.
  • Analyze several points of view on a scientific issue and integrate them into a theoretical perspective without bias.
  • Able to give informed suggestions to address current issues in science communication. Understand and use various disseminated scientific knowledge with ethical standards.

Course Contents:

  • Introduction, citizenship and Science (3 hrs)
  • Science in public, the public understanding of science (5 hrs )
  • Public engagement with science (3 hrs)
  • Science, communication and culture (5 hrs)
  • Ethical codes and scientific norms (4 hrs)
  • Patents and dissemination of scientific knowledge (3 hrs)
  • Science communication in age of innovation (5 hrs)

Reference Books

  1. A. Irwin, Citizen Science, Routledge, London: 1995.
  2. H. Collins, and T. Pinch, The Golem: What Everyone should Know about Science, Cambridge
  3. University Press, Cambridge: 1993.
  4. H. Nowotny, P. Scott, and M. Gibbsons, Rethinking Science: Knowledge and the Public in an Age
  5. of Uncertainty, Polity, Cambridge: 2001.
  6. J. Gregory, and S. Miller, Science in Public: Communication, Culture and Credibility, Plenum,
  7. New York: 2000.
  8. M. Leach, I. Scoones, and B. Wynne, Science and Citizens: Globalization and the Challenge of
  9. Engagement, Zed, London: 2005.
H 236 Perspectives on Indian Society
H 236

Approval: UG-Elective

Credit: 4

Syllabus:

Course Outcome:

  • Understanding of the basic features of Indian Society: both past and contemporary.
  • To acquaint the Students about some of the major social Institutions from Sociological Perspectives
  • Understanding of various processes of Social Change and Problems of Indian Society.

Course Outline:

Structure of Indian Society 4 hrs

Diversity and Unity; Religious, Linguistic, Cultural and Regional diversities of Indian society – Basic tenets of Islam, Christianity, Sikhism, Buddhism, Jainism, and Zoroastrianism, Hindu Social

Organization: Purusharthas, Varnashrama dharma

Types of Indian Society 4hrs

Tribal, Rural, Urban, Industrial :- Meaning, Basic Characteristics, Socio-economic life of the people, Changes and Problems

Social Institutions 6 hrs

Kinship : Meaning, Types, Roles Family : Interpretation of Family from Structural Functional and Marxian Perspective, Issues and Problems related to Modern Family(Family Disharmony, Broken Home, Dowry ,Problems of Aged, Divorce)

Marriage : Meaning, Types, Aims and Objectives (Hindu, Islamic and Christian Marriage and Rituals)

Social Stratification in India 6hrs

Caste as a form of social Stratification in India, Caste Politics in India and its consequences, Caste and Class; Class in India: Agrarian and Non Agrarian classes, Emergence of middle class-Dominant Caste, Changing Dimensions of Caste in the present day society.

Problems and Issues in Indian Society 4 hrs

Unemployment, Poverty, Corruption, Crime and Delinquency Land alienation and displacement, Indebtedness and farmers’ suicide, Urban Problems: pollution, housing and civic services

Processes of Social Change in India 4hrs

Sanskritization, Westernization, Modernization, Urbanization, Industrialization

Reference Books

  1. Mandelbam, D. : Society in India (Part I & II), Popular Prakashan, Bombay, 1970
  2. Srinivas, M.N. : Caste in Modern India and Other Essays, Asia Publishing House, Bombay,1964
  3. Kapadia, K,M, : Marriage and Family in India, Oxford University Press, Calcutta,1981
  4. Srinivas, M.N. : Social Change in Modern India, Orient Longman, New Delhi, 1995
  5. Rao, M.S.A. (ed): Urban Sociology in India, Orient Longman, New Delhi, 1974
  6. Ahuja, Ram : Social Problems in India, Rawat Publications, Jaipur, 1992
  7. Kosambi, D.D. : The Culture & Civilization of Ancient India in Historical Perspective, New Delhi,1982
  8. Uberoi Patrcia (ed), Family, Kinship And Marriages in India, Oxford University Press, New Delhi.
  9. Omen, T.K. and Mukharjee, P.N. (ed),: Indian Sociology : Reflection and Introspection, Popular
  10. Prakashan, Bombay, 1986
H 235 Sociology of Science and Technology
H 235

Approval: UG-Elective

Credit: 4

Syllabus:

Course Outcome:

  • To familiarize the sociological perspective in study of science and technology and social dimension of production of scientific knowledge.

  • To provide a basic understanding and an in-depth discussion of issues that fall under broader spectrum of inter-relationship between science & technology and society

    Course Outline and Session Plan

    History of Science: Evolution of Scientific Knowledge 2

    Introduction to Sociology of Science: Development of modern science; The Industrial and French

    Revolutions and their technological and scientific implications 2

    Social Context of production of Scientific Knowledge 2

    Organisation of Production of Scientific Knowledge 2

    Social significance of science and technology: Contextual nature of science; Scientist as Indexical

    and Analogical reasoner. 4

    Robert Merton's approach to science: Ethos of science; Matthew Effect in science; Thomas

    Theorem and Matthew Effect 4

    Perspectives on scientific knowledge: Karl Marx, Emile Durkheim, Karl Manheim's sociology of

    knowledge, Thomas Kuhn's structures of scientific revolutions and Karl Popper’s theory of

    falsification 6

    Recent trends in Sociology of Science: Science and technology in developing and developed

    countries, Indian context, information technology and globalisation, Manuel Castell’s network

    society, internet and social inequality 6

Reference Books

  1. Bucchi, Massimiano (2004), Science in Society: An Introduction to Social Studies of Science, Routledge.
  2. Knorr-Cetina, Karin D. (1981), The Manufacture of Knowledge: An Essay on the Constructivist and Contextual Nature of Science, Pergamon Press.
  3. Krishna, V.V. (1997), A Portrait of the Scientific Community in India: Historical Growth and Contemporary Problems, Gaillard et al. (eds). Scientific Communities in the Developing World, Sage.
  4. Merton, Robert K. (1981), Social Theory and Social Structure, Amerind. 1981
  5. Wenda K. Bauchspies, Jennifer Croissantn and Sal Restivo, (2005). Science, Technology, and Society: A Sociological Approach, Willey-Blackwell.
H 225 Introduction to Psychology
H 225

Approval: UG-Elective

Credit: 4

Syllabus:

Outcome of the Course:

On successful completion of the course students will be able to

  • Have a better understanding of human behavior.
  • Differentiate between scientific and non-scientific information about human behavior and

mental processes.

  • Understand the working of their own conscious behavior and interpersonal relationship.
  • Apply psychological principles everyday life situations.

Course Contents:

  1. Introduction: perspectives, methods, issues. 4 lectures
  2. Perceptual Process. 3 lectures
  3. Learning Process. 3 lectures
  4. Memory. 3 lectures
  5. Intelligence. 4 lectures
  6. Emotion. 2 lectures
  7. Motivation. 3 lectures
  8. Personality. 4 lectures
  9. Attitude 2 lectures

Reference Books

  1. Morgan, C.T., King, R.A., Weisz, J.R., Scopler, J. Introduction to Psychology (7 th ed). Tata McGraw-Hill.
  2. Baron, R.A. Psychology (5 th ed) PHI New Delhi
  3. Feldman, R.S. Introduction to Psychology (6 th ed) Tata McGraw-Hill.
H 205 Environmental Economics and Environmental Impact Assessment
H 205

Approval: UG-Elective

Credit: 4

Syllabus:

Outcome of the Course:

The course will familiarize the students with the economic implications of growing environmental problems and how to use economic tools for controlling environmental degradations. This will also train the students how to do Environmental cost and benefit analysis and the steps followed in Indian for doing Environmental Impact Assessment

Course Contents:

  1. Key environmental Problems of faced by the society 2 lectures
  2. Scope of Environmental Economics, Ecological Economics and Natural Resource Economics 2 lectures
  3. Market Failure, causes, and remedies 6 lectures
  4. Economics tools for controlling pollution 4 lectures
  5. Tragedy of Commons 1 lecture
  6. Limits to Growth 2 lectures
  7. Sustainable Development and its measurement 5 lectures
  8. Optimal use of renewable resources 2 lectures
  9. Optimal use of non-renewable resources 2 lecture
  10. Environmental Impact Assessment 2 lectures

Reference Books

  1. “Our Common Future” Report of the World Commission on Environment and Development

Text Books

  1. Anderson, David A. (2014) Environmental Economics and Natural Resource Management, Routledge, Fourth Edition
  2. Bhattacharya, Rabindra N. (2010) Environmental Economics: An Indian Perspective, Oxford University Press