Master of Arts in Ecology, Environment and Sustainable Development

Description

Introduction

Today the world is facing serious problems due to human population explosion, poverty, inequality, pollution, political manipulation of the public for corporate benefit, the abuse of public and natural resources, and the dangers of toxic emissions, to name a few. By the turn of the millennium, as the dangers of global warming and the consequent climate change became evident, the limitations of a human-centric view of environment became clear. Therefore, in the recent years there has been a shift to a more holistic approach based on ecology – a view that sees humankind as part of an interconnected web of life. It becomes imperative to understand the interactions between the human systems and the natural world.

Objectives

The programme has the following objectives:

1. To develop professional skills for planning and implementing strategies to address various conservation related issues by taking into consideration related social issues.
2. To provide knowledge and skills to the students, whichwill help them understand the existing problems effecting our environment, possible ways toreduce such impacts and increase awareness in communities.
3. To understand the institutional structures concerning environmentboth at the local and international level, as well as the policies, issues and problems of Indiaand strategies to address these.

Outcomes

The programme has the following outcomes:

1. The programme will help students to understand man-environment interaction and the different approaches to studying environmentand ecology. This will further help to draw interrelationships of resource use, economics, politics and their impact on the environment.
2. One of the important outcome of the programme is that students will acquire skills required for analysing and developing strategy to address ecological and environmental issues by taking into consideration the social perspective.
3. The programme will also enhance knowledge of students on environmental issues and their linkages to politics of development at the local, regionaland global level and specially focusing from the perspectives of northeast India.
4. The programme will further enable students to gain understanding on ecological balance and ecological economics which is important to apply the concept of sustainable development that will help them to understand the problems of developing countries and participate in the debate of sustainable development for strong empirical studies, better policy drafting and practical implementation.
5. The students at the completion of the programme will be able to find jobs in National and International organisations working in the field of Conservation and Development such as United Nation organisations. Also in Private Sectors (as expert to look environmental issues) and Government Sectors dealing with conservation and sustainable development issues.

Distribution of Credit Hours:

Semester-wise Credit Distribution by Component

Semesterwise Courses:

Semester-wise Distribution of Courses

Note: The curriculum structure is tentative and subject to change. Semester-wise listing of courses and course codes are provisional and may undergo some changes.

Note:The curriculum structure is tentative and subject to change.

Fee Structure:

*Institute reserves the rights to revise the Fees Structure of programme if necessary.

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