Fundamentals of Ecosystem Health and assessment

Overview

Syllabus 8

1. Week 1:
   • Lecture 01 : What is ecosystem? and Components of Ecosystem
   • Lecture 02 : Ecosystem or Ecological Balance
   • Lecture 03 : Energy Transfer and the living world
   • Lecture 04 : Ecological Footprints and Biocapacity
   • Lecture 05 : Carrying Capacity of Earth
   • Lecture 06 : Human Impact on Ecosystem
2. Week 2:
   • Lecture 07 : Ecosystem Degradation
   • Lecture 08 : Ecosystem Health: The Concept
   • Lecture 09 : Ecosystem Resources
   • Lecture 10 : Ecosystem Distress Syndrom For Ecosystem Health Assessment
3. Week 3:
   • Lecture 11 : Ecosystem Services - Concept
   • Lecture 12 : Values of Ecosystem Services
   • Lecture 13 : Ecosystem Services - Indicators
   • Lecture 14 : Identifying and Valuing Ecosystem Services
   • Lecture 15 : Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services
4. Week 4:
   • Lecture 16 : Global Climate Change and Ecosystem Services
   • Lecture 17 : Ecosystem Service : Tools
   • Lecture 18 : Step by Step Ecosystem Services Assessment (Step 1 - Step 2)
   • Lecture 19 : Step by Step Ecosystem Services Assessment (Step 3 - Step 5)
   • Lecture 20 : Introduction of Models for Assessment of Ecosystems Services
5. Week 5:
   • Lecture 21 : General Outline for Ecosystem Health Assessment : Classification of Indicators
   • Lecture 22 : Ecosystem Health Assessment Methods - Introduction
   • Lecture 23 : VORS Method of Ecosystem Assessment: Calculating NDVI
   • Lecture 24 : VORS Method of Ecosystem Assessment – Ecosystem Organization
   • Lecture 25 : Introducing Fragstats
   • Lecture 26 : VORS Method of Ecosystem Assessment – Resilience and other options
6. Live Interactive session
   • Lecture 27 : Pressure-State-Response (PSR) Model of Ecosystem Assessment
   • Lecture 28 : Ecosystem Health Assessment Tools
   • Lecture 29 : Ecosystem Health assessment model – k.LAB & InVest
   • Lecture 30 : Auto-calculated toolkit for Ecosystem Health Assessment
   • Lecture 31 : Millennium Ecosystem Health Assessment Model
7. Week 7:
   • Lecture 32 : Ecosystem Risk and Ecosystem Risk Assessment
   • Lecture 33 : Ecosystem Risk Assessment: Framework
   • Lecture 34 : Ecosystem Risk Analysis: Tools
   • Lecture 35 : Decision Making Process in ERA
   • Lecture 36 : Decision Making Criteria
   • Lecture 37 : Marginal Damage Function
8. Week 8:
   • Lecture 38 : Drivers of Global Change
   • Lecture 39 : Risk Assessment Databases
   • Lecture 40 : Risk Assessment Tools and Models
   • Lecture 41 : GLOBIO and IPAT
   • Lecture 42 : Carbon Credit
   • Lecture 43 : NET ZERO Initiative and approach

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Taught by

• Prof. Surjya Kumar SaikiaVisva Bharati University, Santiniketan