About the Department:
Environment is defined as the human surrounding and the discipline – Environmental Science – examines the role of human beings in shaping its surrounding and provides with the scope of research to find ways to attain sustainability. The human surrounding being so diverse, the scope of Environmental Science is wide, and the approach is multidisciplinary. The Stockholm Conference in 1972 provided with the direction to the nations to focus on protecting the environment from degradation. India realized the international commitment and made important amendments in the Constitution of India to accommodate environmental responsibilities and duties - the inclusion of Article 48A and 51A(g). In the later years the environmental concerns grew with the growing pollution of air and water in the cities and waterbodies, degradation of forests and land. It is now explicit that interventions are needed to understand the environmental effects of pollution, biodiversity loss, climate change and its impacts on the hydrological regime and consequently on the agriculture, livelihood, and the economy. Thus, Environmental Science education has become pertinent in the regional, national and global context. The M.Sc. in Environmental Sciences programme envisages to address the need for creating informed scientific manpower to engage with the environmental issues of local, regional, and global nature. The multidisciplinary approach of the discipline is reflected in the curriculum and research and learning have been kept central throughout the programme.