ENVIRONMENT & ECOLOGY Module 12 days Target UPSC PT 2018

ECOREIAS की तरफ से ENVIRONMENT & ECOLOGY की 12 दिवसीय कक्षा प्रारम्भ की जारही है जिसमे जुलाई 2017- May 2018 की समयावधि के सभी CURRENT ENVIRONMENT NEWS & EVENTS को कक्षा में संभावित 200 प्रश्नों  के साथ पढ़ाया जाएगा | हमारे द्वारा पढाये जाने सम्पूर्ण  SYLLABUS  (BASIC + CURRENT) की PDF आप निचे दिए link से download कर सकते हो  |

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THE CORE IAS      Target 2018 &19

Environment : BASIC & Current

Basic Start Date: 10th to 22 April

Current Environment: 5th May (3days Class)

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. Definition

2. Biodiversity

Levels Of Biodiversity

  • Genetic,
  • Species
  •  Ecological

Measurement of Biodiversity

  • Alpha
  • Beta
  • Gama diversity

3. Distribution: Terrestrial, Marine

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

Current of Biodiversity (July 2017 to May 2018*)

  1. Hydrothermal vent &Life
  2. Eco Bridges in Telangana
  3. Sacred grooved
  4. Oriental white ibis: Chilka: NT
  5. Mouse Deer Reintroduced For First Time In Telangana Forest
  6. Black-hooded Oriole
  7. Yellow-throated Bulbul
  8. Malabar Pit Viber
  9. Aquatic Rhabdops
  10. CHILKA & FISHING
  11. Irrawaddy dolphins
  12. Greater flamingos
  13. Goliath grouper fish
  14. . Gymnoth oraxpseudotile: Eel species
  15. Turtle 
  • .Batagur Species
  • Hawksbill
  • Black Soft Shell
  • Green Turle
  • Turtle Sanctuary
  • Turtle Conservation Fund
  1. Survey in Arabian Sea Region
  • Pondicherry shark, the red sea torpedo and the tentacle butterfly
  1. SAW FISH
  2. Tawny lark
  3. Vechoor
  4. Nilgiri: White Tiger
  5. Bonnet macaques
  6. Grey Pelicans
  7. Ichthyosaur
  8. . Parasite Flowering plant: Gleadovia konyakianorum
  9. Pongo tapanuliensis,
  10. Musa Paramjitiana
  11. Tyrannomyrmex
  12. Odorrana arunachalensis
  13. New species of gecko
  14. Chiru
  15. Luciferase:Plants Glow in Dark
  16. Schaller’s Wood Scorpion
  17. Drypeteskalamii
  18. Indian Emerald Dragonfly
  19. Blackbuck Conservation Reserve
  20. Elephant
  21. Rhinos
  22. Tiger Census
  23. Tea plantations decrease bat diversity
  24. Palm Oil Crisis
  25. EARTH OVERSHOOT DAY
  26. Scrub typhus
  27. Permaculture/ Zero Budget Farming
  28. Balasm species in Himalaya
  29. Carnivorous plants
  30. Ratten Hotspot in WG
  31. Fauna Survey: In KWS
  • Fishing Cat (Prionailurusviverrinus)
  1. Biodiversity Under Alien Attack
  2. Invasive species and imbalance

SCHEME

  1. Ecosystems Service Improvement Project
  2. Vaan Island Restoration
  3. Parali Island
  4. Sahara Forest Project:
  5. Gharial Exchange Programme
  6. B4’ – the ‘Brahmaputra Biodiversity and Biology Boat’
  7. Wetland (Conservation And Management) Rules 2017
  8. National Wildlife Action Plan
  9. Daft Forest Policy 2018
  10. SFR 2017
  11. Bamboo Ceases To Be A Tree, Freed Of Forest Act
  12. EcAMSat Mission
  13. Assam- Wildlife Protection
  14. Farmer managed natural regeneration (FMNR)
  • Wadi
 
 

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

Current of Pollution Chapter (July 2017 to May 2018*)

1.Aerosol & Indian Monsoon

2. Delhi Pollution & Arabian Desert

3. Green Climate Fund

4.Of plant species few and far between

5. Centre for Marine Living Resources and Ecology

6. Integrated Coastal and Marine Area Management Project Directorate (ICMAM PD)

7. Concrete may help curb air pollution

8. .Micro plastic/microbeads

9.Firecracker Ban: Petroleum and Explosives Safety Organisation

10.Co Sensor

11.Plastic & Sea

12.LC3 Technology

13. Sulphur Di oxide Taking Over China

14. pet-coke Ban

15. Global E-Waste Monitor – 2017

16. Permafrost Hg& Release

SCHEMES

1.NMEEE &FAME

2. . Himachal Pradesh: Country’s First Electric Bus Service Launched

3. Annual Carbon Emission Saving

  • PET
  • BEE
  • EESL
  • Energy Efficiency Certificates (ESCerts) launched
  • Energy Conservation Building Code

4. New National Policy On Biofuels And Pradhan Mantri Ji- Van Yojana

5. India’s first energy-efficient railway station

6. Star rating for Garbage free cities

7. ECO-NIWAS

  • Green Building Initiative in India

8. National Clean Air Programme

  • Clean Air Campaign

9. . GOBAR-DHAN

10. Floating treatment wetland

11. Green Good Deeds” campaign:

12.Wood is Good Campaign

  • Forest plus

 


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

Current (July 2017 to May 2018*)

  1. Negative Emission
  2. Soil Sequestration and Climate change
  3. Soil Organic Carbon
  4. Biochar
  5. El nino
  6. Melting of Antarctic Iceberg
  7. Black Carbon
  8. Environmental Kuznets Curve Hypothesis
  9. Palaeocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum
  10. Climate Change Performance Index
  11. EmissionGap Report
  12. 1 Gigaton Coalition:
  13. World Scientists' Warning to Humanity: A Second Notice, published in Bio Science.
  14. Warsaw International Mechanism for Loss and Damage
  15. Green Mobility?
  16. GREEN SKILL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME

  1. 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

Current

1.Bonn Conference

  • Talanoa Dialogue
  • Bonn zone & Bula Zone

2.Bonn Challenge

  • Global Partnership on Forest Landscape Restoration

3.UNCCD & 10 year Plan

4. Project called ‘SUNRISE’

5.BUSINESS & CLIMATE SUMMIT 2017

6. High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development

7.2nd Commitment Period & India

8.ISA

9.Krill & Marine Diversity of Antarctica

10. Under2 Coalition

11. SEED VAULT

  1. Other Protocol & Convention

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

Current

  1. Global Wildlife Summit
  2. Bamako Convention
  3. Ballest Water Convention
  4. Sustainable Development Impact Summit
  5. Social Good Summit
  6. Minmata Convention

  1. 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

Current

  • Global Tiger Forum
  • Global Snow Leopard & Ecosystem Protection Program
  • Young Champions of the Earth
  • Asian Waterbird Census
  • Transport Decarbonisation Alliance’?
  • Mission Innovation
  • Certificate of recommendation from CITES
  • Ballast Water Convention
  • Bunkar Convention
  • PROJECT BLUE FLAG & FEE
  • Flyway Partnership:
  • UN Environment Management Group
  • Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources

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))
  1. Madras Crocodile Bank Trust
  2. Environment Pollution Control Authority
  3. Salim Ali Centre for Ornithology and Natural History
  4. SAFER
  5. ‘Sustainable Rooftop Implementation for Solar Transfiguration of India (SRISTI)’.
  6. Sikkim allows people to forge fraternal ties with trees
  7. Mangalajodi Ecotourism Trust
  8. World Sustainable Development Summit 2018
  9. First large scale CO2-injected project in Asia
  10. India to host World Environment Day 2018:

5.MISC

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

Protect area in News (July 2017 to May 2018*)

1.Kanger valley

2.Bhitarkanika

3.Periyar National Park

4. .Gahirmatha Marine Sanctuary

5.Coringa

6. Kole Wetland

7. Nalbana Bird Sanctuary

8. Chilla–Motichurcorridor

9.Trishna Wildlife Sanctuary and Bison National Park.

10. Satkosia Tiger Reserve

11. Talley Valley Wildlife Sanctuary

12. Cotigao Wildlife Sanctuary

13. Ghodazari

14. Nayachar Island’

15. Kapra Lake

16. Atapaka Bird Sanctuary

17. Polynya

18. Buxa tiger reserve

19.Mukandara Tiger Reserve

20. Seshachalam Forest

21. Similipal

22. Dhenkanal

23.,Chandaka Wildlife Sanctuary,

This Current is Till February: Will be updated till 10th May

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