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ESE-820 Energy and Environment
Campus CES
Programs PG
Session Fall Semester 2016
Course Title Energy and Environment
Course Code ESE-820
Credit Hours 3
Pre-Requisutes None
Course Objectives
  • Generate awareness and interest in energy and related issues and explain the environmental consequences of energy production and consumption.
  • Discuss current energy problems and alternate energy sources available in the country and their environmental concerns.
Detail Content
  • Energy and its forms & energy resources
  • Merits & demerits of development & use of energy resources
  • Energy resources of Pakistan
  • Patterns of energy consumption in Pakistan,
  • Future energy scenario of world and Pakistan,
  • Sustainable energy management or agriculture, transport,
  • Industry & domestic sectors
  • Merits & demerits of wind, solar, hydropower, bio-energy resources.
    • Course Outcomes
  • The student will be abreast of the various energy options and resource types available for exploitation with special emphasis on renewable energy resources and their use in the light of environmental implications such as green house effect and its mitigation methodologies.
  • The students will be able to evaluate the potential of the project incentives offered by CDM.
Text/Ref Books
  • Towards a sustainable Energy Future by OECD/IEA, Paris, 2001
  • Environmental science: Earth as a living planet by Botkin, D.B and Keller, E.A. 6th Edition. John Wiley and Sons. 2007
  • Environmental Science: Systems and solutions by Mckinney, M.L., Schoch, R.M. and Yonavjak, L. 4th Edition. Jones & Bartlett Publishers, 2007
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