ED78.02 Biological Processes: Reaction rates, process calculations, biological systems, fundamental of biological kinetics and process analysis, biofilm kinetics, aerobic and anaerobic biological treatment; pond treatment; sewerage systems; application in wastewater treatment systems.
ED78.03 Physico-Chemical Processes: Physical principles and design criteria used in separating liquids and solids from liquid, particularly those having application in water and waste treatment systems: screening, filtration, size/volume reduction, mixing, sedimentation, flotation, flocculation, adsorption, absorption, evaporation, drying and centrifugation.
ED78.04 Aquatic Chemistry: Diprotic acid-base system; ampholyte chemistry; buffer intensity; neutralization capacity; solubility equilibrium; activity of solid phase; coagulation of metals; oxidation-reduction potential; pE-pH diagrams; chemistry in sediments; biological redox reactions; environmental chemistry; pollution and water quality; global chemical cycles.
ED78.05 Waste Reduction and Recycling: Principles of waste reduction and recycling; waste minimization and cleaner production; technologies of waste recycling; composting; biofuel production; algae and fish production; aquatic weeds and their utilization; land treatment of wastewater and sludge; engineering application and utilization of reclaimed products; planning and management, institutional development and regulatory aspects.
ED78.06 Air Pollution and Air Quality Management: Nature of air pollution, types, sources and effects of air pollutants; air quality management; air quality standards, integrated approach in air pollution control; special topics: indoor air pollution, odor pollution, noise pollution and control; energy and environment; large scale effects of air pollution: climate change, ozone layer depletion and acid rain; atmospheric photochemistry and photochemical smog pollution control strategies; air pollution monitoring; meteorological aspects of air pollution and atmospheric self-purifying processes; basic concepts in air pollution modeling; control principles for particulate and gaseous pollutants from stationary and mobile sources.
ED78.07 Solid Waste Management: Solid waste generation and characterization; waste collection and transportation; waste separation and recycling; waste treatment; landfill composting; incineration, public and private participation in solid waste management.
ED78.08 Environmental Quality Management: Basic concepts of environmental management; environmental issues and priorities; environmental management approaches; environmental standards and criteria setting; environmental indicators and indices; environmental information systems; environmental organization; enforcement and economic aspects of environmental control;
environmental monitoring.
ED78.09 Environmental Management and Ethics: Environmental science, cause-effect relationship, modeling and scientific reasoning, environmental engineering, mass flow in society, life cycle and analysis, engineering options and ultimate solutions, environmental economics, cost-benefit analysis, economic instruments, environmental ethics, ethical theories, anthropocentric versus egocentric concepts, utilitarian versus deontological and theological thinking, pre-cautionary principle, and application of ethical theories in environmental management.
ED78.10 Environmental Health and Sanitation: Global situation of water supply, drinking water and sanitation; outbreaks of water borne diseases; public health and pollution problems caused by human excreta and wastewater, microbiology of drinking water, indicators and criteria; epidemiology of pathogens and water-borne diseases; disinfection and its alternatives; design of small-scale 19 wastewater treatment systems; household centered environmental sanitation; material flux analyzes; sanitation and hygiene education.
ED78.11 Integrated Life Science: Ecosystem structure and functions; organism, population and community; techniques for study all biology and biochemistry; all organelles and functions; introduction to human physiology and systems.
ED78.12 Principles of Toxicology: Fundamental and basic concepts of toxicology, including doseresponse relationships; types of harmful effects; mechanisms involved in chemical actions from the entrance of chemicals into the body until excretion; toxicokinetics; activation and detoxification mechanisms; biologic and chemical factors that influence toxicity; mechanisms of carcinogenesis and mutagenesis target organ toxicology; the principles of testing for toxic effects; epidemiology and concepts of risk assessment.
ED78.13 Health, Development and Environment: Human development and environment; environmental economy; natural resources management and land reformation; policy for public participation; application of economic incentives; appropriates laws and legislation; cleaner production technologies such as eco-design and green productivity.
ED78.14 Membrane Technology in Water and Wastewater Treatment: Introduction to membrane technology; comparison of various membrane types and configurations; recent development in membrane technology, common membrane technologies; microfiltration, ultrafiltration, reverse osmosis, nanofiltration, membrane bioreactors, scale-up operation of membrane systems, anti fouling techniques; experimental demonstration; computer applications in design of industrial membrane systems; case studies.
ED78.15 Design of Water Supply and Wastewater Systems: Planning of urban water supply systems; planning of urban wastewater systems; basics of hydraulics; design of water supply network and wastewater collection systems.
ED78.16 Applied Microbiology and Laboratory: Classification of microorganisms; structure and function of domains Eucarya (algae, fungi, and protozoa), bacteria, and archaea virus; nutrition and growth conditions; pathogenic microorganisms; application of microbiology in environmental engineering; indicators, bioassay, self-purification, activated sludge, trickling filter, anaerobic digestion and oxidation ponds.
ED78.17 Advanced Processes for Wastewater Treatment, Reuse and Recycle: New development in advanced wastewater treatment with emphasis on nitrogen and phosphorous removal; biofilm processes for carbon and nitrogen removal, advanced anaerobic bioprocesses, membrane bioreactors for wastewater treatment, removal of dissolved inorganic; technologies for reuse and recycle of treated effluent.
ED78.18 Toxic Organics and Trace Metals in Ecosystem: Biogeochemistry of toxic substances; mobility, bioavailability, adsorption and accumulation by soil and uptake by plants, assessing toxic organics and heavy metals in ecosystems, metal’s pools using fractionation scheme, soil health effect, metal budget, by balance sheet approach, toxicological effects of selected pollutants in the ecosystem.
ED78.19 Environmental Impact Assessment: Concepts and organization of ecosystems; predicting impact; procedures for environmental impact assessment; integration with development planning procedures; impact assessment of water resources, transportation, power production mining, and other relevant projects; urbanization, industrialization, and resource conservation considerations; design concepts and alternative strategies for impact reduction; monitoring.
ED78.20 Industrial Waste Abatement and Management: Technical strategies of a sound industrial pollution control programs; identification and classification of different pollutants and their effects on 20 surrounding environment; different in-plant waste reduction management techniques both by modifying the production processes and by reducing volume and strength of pollution; overall view of different wastewater and sludge treatment techniques; technical feasibility study for selecting an appropriate treatment methods.
ED78.21 Water Quality Management: Fresh water resources and ecosystems; sources of water pollution and types of wastes; assessment of water quality in rivers and lakes; lake eutrophication, water quality monitoring and management planning; case studies.
ED78.22 Air Pollution Modeling and Applications: Application of modeling tool for air quality management; fundamentals of air pollution mathematical modeling; dispersion models: Eulerian and Lagrangian models, Gaussian models: traditional and new modeling approaches; modeling pollutant dispersion in different meteorological and topographical conditions; meteorological models; plume rise modeling: semi-empirical and advanced approaches; application of dispersion models: ISC models, AERMOD, Puff models, Line source models: street canyon and open highways; modeling urban air quality; long-range transport models: RAINS-Asia model; Receptor models and applications: mathematical formulation, types of receptor models, data input requirements, applications for source apportionment; synoptic climatological modeling.
ED78.23 Hazardous Waste Technology and Management: Problems of hazardous wastes, their sources, generation and characterization; in-plant control, storage and transportation; processing and treatment, waste disposal, remediation of contaminated sites; risk assessment and hazardous waste management; regulatory aspects of hazardous wastes, national and international roles.
ED78.25 Principles of Cleaner Production: Cleaner production audit; pollution prevention; mass and energy balance, energy and environmental audit, energy reduction; small and medium scale industries, process integration, design for environment, pinch analysis, occupational health and safety.
ED78.27 Environmental Toxicology: Fate and distribution of toxicants in environment; introduction to air, soil and water pollution; occupational toxicology; industrial chemicals, pesticides, radioisotopes; prevention measure of industrial, agrochemical poisoning; ecological risks assessments; biomagnification in food webs.
ED78.28 Health/Environmental Risk and Impact Assessment: Conceptual framework of ecosystems; procedures for EIA as well as for health risk assessment; predict risk and impact assessment of water, power production, mining and other relevant projects; urbanization, industrialization and resources protections; development of health risk model to include carcinogenic and non-carcinogenic substances; risk monitoring.
ED78.31 Bioengineering and Environmental Health: Bioengineering and toxicology; assessment of adverse health effects due to exposure to hazards; relationship between risk assessment and risk management; practical application of risk assessment methods; participating acceptance procedures and communication methods; drugs and clinical issues; bioethics.
ED78.9010 Environmental Economics: Economic approach to environmental protection and management; economic rationale for social and environmental regulation; economics of pollution control; environmental economics and laws; regulatory, economic and successive measures for environmental management; criteria for evaluation of environmental policies and management measures; policy instruments for local environmental management; policy instruments for and economics of acid rain and greenhouse gases mitigations; environmental accounting; valuation of environmental impacts.
ED79.01 Urban Environmental Management Systems: The course initially deals with the definition of urban ecosystem and general scope of urban environmental management; urban management approaches including good governance; gender and health issues and environmental 21 safety issues in a broader sense. Subsequently, the technology oriented and people oriented management system; including ISO Standardization; spatial planning, economic instruments; strategic environmental assessment and impact assessment etc. are introduced as tools and techniques for management decision making.
ED79.03 Urban Planning and the Built-Environment: This course deals with the aims, objectives, and scope of urban planning; the economic, social, political, environmental and legal framework within which it operates; the requirements, standards, and principles for planning the different spatial elements of cities; selected approaches to planning cities; and means of implementation. Emphasis is given to the problems confronting Asian cities, particularly the problems of different built environments< such as commercial, industrial, residential and mixed-use areas, and the plans, programs, policies, and projects that can be proposed and implemented to deal with them.
ED79.04 Environmental Science and Technology for Decision Makers: Introduction for planners, managers, and decision makers to environmental science, engineering and technology ecosystems, population growth, urban ecology, characteristics, sources of, and effects of urban pollution (air, noise, odour, water, wastewater land, solid waste and toxic waste), and treatment technologies, decision making on urban pollution.
ED79.05 Urbanization and Environmental Policy: Meanings of urbanization and its growth components; urbanization and economic development relationship; rural-urban migration determinants, impacts, and policy implications; trend, pattern and impact of urbanization; economics and demographics of urbanization in Asia; policies for improving urban poor’s working and living conditions; urbanization and women; environmental impacts of urbanization; urban and environmental policies for sustainable urbanization and cities.
ED79.06 Environmental Auditing: Introduction to the nature of environmental problems in cities and the environmental effects of various urban activities, and how they are currently controlled and mitigated Development of environmental management systems and the key role allocated to environmental auditing. Emphasis is on environmental audit and post-audit stages. Where relevant, reference is made to application of environmental audit techniques in the urban context such as in local governments and development institutions. The course includes a case study exercise involving site visits and undertaking of an audit report.
ED79.07 Disaster Management in Urban Environmental Planning: Disaster management covering mitigation, preparedness, response, rehabilitation and reconstruction; different types of hazards, hazard and vulnerability assessment at the city level; tools and techniques of risk assessment; environmental safety and security in the city; protection of lifelines and critical facilities; structural and non-structural mitigatory measures; community-based approach to disaster management and capacity building.
ED79.08 Environmental Legislation: National policies for the protection of environment; nature and scope of law; understanding legal concepts; sources of environmental law; role of the judiciary; procedural aspects of environmental law; legal theories for suing polluters; methods of proof in environmental litigation; pollution control legislation; ecological liability of corporate groups; role of international agencies in environmental protection; international environmental law.
ED79.09 Urban Environmental Design: This course deals with the aims, objectives, and scope of urban environmental design, the requirements, standards, and principles of designing different spatial elements of cities; principles of tropical design, green architecture and sustainable built-environment, eco-sensitive planning and design, passive design techniques to mitigate urban environmental problems such as heat island effect, air pollution and water pollution, urban design for energy efficient city blocks, landscape design and constructed environments for environmental management, community participation methods in urban environmental design.
ED79.10 Urban Environmental Planning and Management Workshop: The workshop will expose students to the realities of urban environmental planning and management practice. These realities will be experienced by each student as a member of a team in a realistic fieldwork situation working on an interdisciplinary problem/issue for a client. In addition, through a range of experiences, students will develop the following skills: teamwork, project management, time management, stakeholder consultation, and presentation.
ED79.12 Management of Urban Housing, Infrastructure and Service: Systems approach for urban management, elements of urban housing, infrastructural and services; adequate housing, infrastructure and services for urban living; housing options and delivery systems planning, design implementation and evaluation of physical social and environmental infrastructure. Utilities and amenities, privatization of infrastructure and services delivery affordability and cost recovery community participation management of housing and infrastructure development projects.
ED79.13 Strategic Environmental Assessment for Urban Development: Basic principles of EIA history and development of environmental impact assessment; legal, institutional and theoretical frameworks; processes – inventory, prediction of impacts, mitigation and management, monitoring and evaluation; methodologies; document preparation; management problems in impact assessment; processes used in developing countries; cumulative impacts; policy assessment; international aspects; and other components of SEA.
ED79.14 Governance and Urban Management: Competitive theoretical perspectives on state and urban polities; conceptual issues on governance and principals in public sector management Major contextual issues related to urban and regional development in developing countries; various areas of urban management such as basic services delivery, urban transportation, land management and housing city poverty reduction, and state civil society relation and associated programmatic tools.
ED79.15 Urban Economics and Finance: Market forces and role of government in the development of cities; urban economy’s growing contribution to national economy; local economic development; the dichotomy in the urban economy and environment in the developing countries of Asia; specific urban markets, the role urban infrastructure and services; financing urban infrastructure and services; new and innovative approaches to financing urban infrastructure; public policy for financing and managing the urban environment.
ED79.16 Environmental Conflict Resolution and Mediation: Theories on social conflict and environmental conflict (natural and built); development interface analysis; theories, concepts and strategies in bargaining, negotiation and mediation, conflict management skills, and negotiation ethics.
