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1.0 INTRODUCTION

2.0 Nature: A Tribute

SECTION 1. LIFE ON PLANET EARTH

3.0 Early Climate, Origin of Life and Evolution of Continents

3.1 Planet Earth: The Beginning

3.2 Origin of Life

3.3 Planet Earth: From Single Continent Pangaea to Continental Split

3.4 Continental Drift

4.0 Natural Resources

4.1 Non- Renewable and Renewable Resources

4.2 Water

4.3 Soils

SECTION 2. CLIMATE AND ENVIRONMENT

5.0 Climate and Environment

5.1 Global Warming

5.2 Climate, Biodiversityand Greenhouse Gases

5.3 Volcanic Eruptions, Floods, Cloud Bursts, Sea Storms etc.

SECTION 3. UNDERSTANDING BIODIVERSITY

6.0 Biological Science: Basics Affecting Biodiversity

6.1 Bio-communications: Birds of Feather Flock Together

6.1.1 Intraspecific Interactions

6.1.2 Interspecific Interactions

6.2 Evolution: Descent with modification

6.3 Genetics and Inheritance of characters

6.4 Biological species: the only real taxonomic category

6.5 Speciation

7.0 Biodiversity: Living Natural Resource

7.1 World Biodiversity Hot Spots

7.2 World Biodiversity

7.3 Geographic Distribution and Abundance of Species

7.3.1 Biodiversity: Spatial Distribution

7.4 Exploring Biodiversity

7.5 Biological Systematics

8.0 Biodiversification (Insects,Flowering Plant and Man)

8.1 Insects and Flowering Plants

8.2 MAN: TheHomosapiens - Here, there, and everywhere

8.2.1 Poverty of Human Resource

9.0 Shrinking Biodiversity: Concept and Impact

9.1 How Living Ecosystems Are Affected?

10.0 Shrinking Biodiversity: Living Ecosystems

10.1 Forests

10.2 Grassland, Mountain Slopes,Valleys and Plains

10.3 Flowering Plants and Insect Diversity

10.4 Below Ground Biodiversity

10.5 Aquatic Biodiversity

10.6 Human Natural Resource

10.7 Biosphere

SECTION 4. BIODIVERSITY AND AGRICULTURE

11.0 Biodiversity and Agriculture

11.1 Production Systems

11.2 Sustainability Vs Unsustainability

12.0 World Agriculture

12.1 World Trade Organisation (WTO): (Policy Perspectives and World Agriculture Trade)

12.2 Legislative support : (Environment Protection Agency (USEPA) in USA; UNEP and the Indian Biodiversity Law 2002)

13.0 Green Revolution:Breaking Production Barriers

14.0 Biological Warfare Begins: All Love is Lost

14.1 Agroecosystems and Pesticide

15.0 Pests: Insects, Weeds and Microbes

16.0 Insecticide Resistance in Insect Pests

17.0 ManMade Ecological Disasters

17.1 Clearing Natural Forests for Farm and Urban Needs

17.2 Valley Agriculture, Terrace Cultivation on Himalayas

17.3 Conservation of Himalayas and similar mountains as Natural Resource Parks.

17.4 Conservation of Mangroves

18.0 IPM- Integrated Pest Management

18.1 IPM- Concepts and Success Stories Definition and Concept; Major Objectives; Why IPM? Biotic Stress Mapping; IPM- How does it Work? IPM- Success Stories

18.2 IPM- Strategies for Pest Management

18.2.1 Farmer and Cultural Practices

18.2.2 Host-Plant Resistance (HPR)

18.2.3 Biological Control, Biological Control Agent’s Diversity,Three Basic Components of Biological Control: Introduction, Augmentation and Conservation

19.0 Botanical Pesticides

19.1 Botanical Pesticides:Future of Pest Management

19.2 Neem: Azadirachtaindica A. Juss., (Meliaceae)Ancient knowledge, diversification; Neemuse in prehistory, spread through human civilization: spread of Siddha Mission to China; Neem in Siddha: Potential in agriculture and human welfare

19.3 Recent biopesticidaluses of Neem

20.0 Genetics and Plant/ Animal Breeding

20.1 Genetics and Plant Breeding

21.0 Genetically Modified Crops, Biotechnology

22.0 Organic agriculture and biodiversity

22.1 Relevance of Organic Farming

23.0 Plantation Crops and Hill Agriculture

24.0 Should Chemical Pesticides Be Banned?

24.1 Chemicals and Pesticides Industry

25.0 Conservation

26.0 Holistic Agriculture

26.1 Three Pillars of Sustainable Development: Environmental, Economic and Social