1. System approach to sustainable development and landscape management – Concept of system, systematic
vis a vis systemic approach, systemic approach to landscape planning and management
2. Natural Resources and their management at landscape level – Natural and rural environmental resource
base, renewable and non renewable resources, common property resources, consumption and wastage of
resources, recycling of wastes, management of land, water, forest and other natural resources for sustainable
development, approach for integrated resource management
3. Ecosystem approaches to Natural Resource Management: Role of ecosystem in Sustainable Development;
Basic framework of sustainable development, linkages between ecosystem and sustainable development
4. Ecosystem restoration and rehabilitation- Definition and terminology; Ecological dimensions; Socio
economic perspectives and dimensions; ecosystem rehabilitation within development context, cost factor,
traditional knowledge and modern techniques, Strategy of Ecosystem restoration, Protected Area Management:
Protected area and Protected area network; Wild life habitat management; Ecotourism- Definition, Scope and
Potentials.
5. Systemic approach to human resource management for sustainable development – population
environment relation: a system approach, literacy, education, livelihood and poverty, health and nutrition,
Access to Improved Sanitation and Improved Water, Water Supply & Sanitation, social networks, synergic
action
6. Economic Analysis for sustainable development – growth and development, understanding government
budgets, privatisation and globalisation, WTO agenda, Patent
7. Conservation of natural resources and waste management – Resource cycle, need for conservation, in situ
and ex situ conservation measures, solid waste management in the rural and urban context, case studies on
waste management in rural areas
8. Sustainable Energy Management – problem of conventional energy sources, issues related to global
warming, renewable energy sources
9. Climate Change and CDM- Result of climate change, environmental degradation related to climate change:
green house warming, ozone depletion, Climate change and its effects on health, incorporation of
environmental issues in production, green operation, green process, waste minimization, carbon trading