Challenges to Sustainable Development

Challenges to Sustainable Development

1 Climate Change – An Overview

  1. The Science of Climate Change
  2. Global Change and Climate Change
  3. Why Is Climate Change A Concern?
  4. Probable Consequences and Impacts of Climate Change
  5. Climate Change Debates
  6. National Action Plan on Climate Change

2 Climate Change and Natural Resource System

  1. Exploitation of Natural Resources and its Impact
  2. Climate Change and Its Impact on Natural Resources
  3. Climate Change Impact on Water Resources
  4. Climate Change Impact on Forest Resources
  5. Climate Change Impact on Energy Resources
  6. Climate Change Impact on other Natural Resources
  7. Reviving and Sustaining Natural Resources

3 Human Dimensions of Climate Change

  1. Climate Change and Vulnerability
  2. Climate Change: Vulnerability of Agriculture
  3. Climate Change and Its Impact on Various aspects of Human Life

4 Adaptation and Mitigation

  1. What is Mitigation and Adaptation?
  2. Why do We Require Mitigation and Adaptation?
  3. Mitigation Vs Adaptation
  4. Adaptation and Mitigation Measures to Climate Impacts in India
  5. Role of Individual, State and Civil Society for Sustainable Adaptation

5 Overpopulation and Resource Depletion

  1. History of Human Population Growth
  2. The Demographic Transition: India and World
  3. Effects of Human Population Growth
  4. Unsustainable Lifestyle โ€” Increased Consumerism
  5. Ecological Footprints
  6. Carrying Capacity: Overshoot of Ecological Footprint and Biocapacity of Planet Earth
  7. Changes in Resource Availability: Resource Depletion

6 Energy Crisis

  1. Energy Demand and Consumption
  2. Production Capacity and Dependence on Imports
  3. Historical Perspectives
  4. An Overview of Emerging Shortages
  5. Effects of Energy Crisis
  6. Mitigation and Adaptation
  7. Alternative Sources of Energy
  8. Ecologically Friendly Alternatives
  9. Relatively New Concepts for Alternative Energy
  10. The Population Increment: Containment of Population Growth
  11. Promoting Public/Mass Transport Systems
  12. Clean Energy Development
  13. Using Waste Heat
  14. Saving Energy in Industry

7 Urbanization

  1. Urbanization: Driving Forces and Trends
  2. Typology and Growth of Cities in India
  3. Urbanization and Increasing Resource Demand
  4. Sub Urbanization and Urban Sprawls
  5. Benefits of Urbanization
  6. Problems of Urbanization
  7. Tangible and Intangible Impacts of Urbanization
  8. Possible Strategies to Alleviate Urban Problems
  9. Need for a Sustainable City Planning Paradigm and Management

8 Pollution and Waste Generation

  1. Pollution and Waste Management: A Glaring Urban Problem
  2. Air Pollution
  3. Water Pollution
  4. Noise Pollution
  5. Solid Waste Pollution
  6. Hazardous Waste Pollution
  7. Impacts of Pollution on Natural Support System
  8. Review of Existing Framework
  9. Monitoring Programs on Urban Environmental Status in India

9 Environment and Health

  1. Concept and Definition
  2. Dimensions of Health
  3. Impacts of Population Increase on Environment and Health
  4. Public Health Risks
  5. Management Options
  6. Importance of Environmental Health to Sustainable Development

10 Health and Sanitation

  1. Meaning of Sanitation
  2. Importance of Sanitation in Sustainable Development
  3. Types and Coverage of Sanitation
  4. Poor Sanitation and Environmental Health Risks
  5. Epidemiology
  6. Communicable Diseases
  7. Non-communicable Diseases
  8. Sanitation Measures for Disease Prevention and Control
  9. Health Care Services: Provision and Access

11 Health Hazards

  1. Health Hazards
  2. Etiology
  3. Epidemiology: Introduction and History
  4. Epidemic: Classification and Factors

12 Nutrition

  1. Nutrients
  2. States of Nutritional Health
  3. Nutritional Assessment
  4. Life-stages and Nutrition
  5. Food-safety and Nutritional/Food Security
  6. Under-nutrition, Poverty and World
  7. Gender and the Basic Nutritional Requirements
  8. Nutritional Status in India and Sustainable Development
  9. Poverty and Nutrition

13 Land Degradation

  1. The Concept of Land Degradation
  2. Causes of Land Degradation
  3. Pressures
  4. Direct Pressures
  5. Indirect or Underlying Pressures
  6. Problems and Impacts of Land Degradation
  7. Magnitude of the Problem in India and Some Examples
  8. Responses, Policy Gaps and Recommendations

14 Desertification

  1. The Concept and Definition
  2. United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD)
  3. Status of Dry Lands and Desertification in the World
  4. Major Factors Contributing to Desertification
  5. Processes of Desertification
  6. Impacts of Desertification
  7. Combating and Mitigating Desertification
  8. Opportunities in Dry Lands and its Sustainable Use

15 Disasters

  1. Disasters: Definition and Types
  2. India’s Vulnerability to Hazards and Disasters
  3. Effects of Major Disasters
  4. Fundamental Aspects of Disaster Management
  5. Enhancing Resilience and Reducing Vulnerability to Disasters

16 Biopiracy

  1. Biological Invasion/Invasive Alien Species
  2. Biological/Germ Warfare
  3. Biological Terrorism
  4. Biopiracy