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Environment trend analysis

The Civil Services (Main) Examination Syllabus is mentioned as: “Conservation, Environmental pollution and degradation and Environmental Impact Assessment”

The topic is divided as: 

•   Causes of Environmental Degradation

•   Steps for Environmental Management

Both of the above topics are defined broadly and students sometimes fail to understand the sub-topics need to be read while preparing for the subject. 

Hence, hereby providing the list of sub-topics:

Biodiversity

•   What is biodiversity?

•   Types of biodiversity

•   Importance of biodiversity

•   Causes of biodiversity loss

•   Impact of the loss of biodiversity

Biodiversity conservation

•   In situ and ex situ conservation

•   New technologies for conservation

•   Economic incentives for conservation

•   Role of government

•   Role of NGOs

•   People participation

•   Some case studies related to it

•   Eco tourism

•   Traditional methods of biodiversity conservation

•   Initiatives in India

Climate Change

•   Causes

•   Impact

•   Initiatives

•   Future initiatives

•   Some new technologies to overcome climate change

•   National treaties

•   International treaties

•   Analysis of treaties

•   Country specific initiatives (some important)

•   Disparity between developed and non developed on environment issues

Environmental degradation

•   Land degradation

•   Water resource degradation

•   Biodiversity degradation

•   Air quality degradation

•   Ocean resource degradation

•   Deforestation

•   Desertification

•   Mining

•   Overgrazing

•   Pollution

•   Ocean acidification

•   Waste disposal

•   Poaching and hunting

•   Soil erosion

•   Urbanization

•   Agriculture practices

•   Sustainable development of resources

Conservation

•   Forest Resource Management

•   Mountain ecosystem Management

•   Coastal ecosystem Management

•   Wetland Conservation

•   Land Management

•   Water Management

•   Initiatives in India

Waste Management

•   Solid Waste Management

•   Hazardous Waste Management

•   Biomedical Waste Management

•   E-Waste Management

Environmental Impact Assessment

•   Meaning

•   Process of EIA

•   Process of EIA in India

•   Organizations involved in EIA in India

•   Advantages of EIA

•   Economic development and EIA linkage

•   Environment accounting

•   Environment ethics

Concept of Sustainable Development

•   What is sustainable development

•   Parameters of Sustainable development

•   Global and regional dimensions

•   Sustainable agriculture

•   Sustainable forest management

•   Industrial waste management

•   Water resource management

•   Initiatives in India in 12 th five year plan

•   Recommendations of NITI Aayog

Trend Analysis of Environment

How to Prepare:

If you analyse the previous year papers, maximum questions have been asked from the causes of Environmental degradation . 

Hence for preparation of this topic, rather than referring to the traditional sources (which student covers in the preliminary preparation), they
need to refer the government reports and latest updates.

Some of such reports are:

1.   Annual Report of Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change

2.   NITI Aayog Action Plan

3.   Report on E-Waste, etc.

Alongwith the reports, the student should refer to the sources such as:

•   Editorials from Newspapers 

•   Videos of government sources as Rajya Sabha TV

•   PIB, Government institutes documents, etc.

Note: In IASHELPDESK we are providing the books, reports, videos, editorials and questions at one stop so that a student may concentrate in the attainment of knowledge rather than busy in accessing the different sources.