Topic outline
Informations sur le cours
Licence : 3ème années écologie
Course Objectives:
This course aims to introduce students to the issues of pollution and environmental management including their causes, consequences, remedies, and the impact of environmental management practices.
The teaching of Environmental Pollution seeks to raise students’ awareness of the severity of the damage already visible on a global scale, highlighting the alarming extent of the current global environmental crisis. These degradations may have natural origins but are most often caused by human activities.
Course Content
Chapter 1. Generalities on Pollution
1.1 - The concept of nuisance
1.2 - Main causes of pollution
1.3 - Industrial contaminants
1.4 - Solid waste
1.5 - Agricultural contaminantsChapter 2. Classification of Pollutants
Chapter 3. Circulation and Dispersion of Pollutants
3.1 - Atmospheric circulation
3.2 - Dispersion of pollutants in the atmosphere
3.3 - Residence time of pollutants in the atmosphere
3.4 - Transfer of pollutants from the atmosphere to water and soils
3.5 - Transfer of pollutants into biomass
3.6 - Concept of bioconcentration and bioaccumulationChapter 4. Importance and Ecological Effects of the Main Types of Pollution
Chapter 5. Ecological Consequences of Environmental Pollution
5.1 - Main types of pollution (physical, chemical, biological)
5.2 - Definitions of pollution
5.3 - Air pollution
5.4 - Soil pollution
5.5 - Water pollutionChapter 6. Consequences of Pollution on Different Ecosystems
6.1 - Acid rain
6.2 - The ozone hole
6.3 - The greenhouse effect and climate change
6.4 - DesertificationChapter 7. Major Accidental Pollutions