BIO 478         Environmental Pollution and Toxicology                                    2 units

 

COURSE CONTENT

 

 

Dr. Ruth Afunwa

Definition, general principles of environmental , monitoring, organization of monitoring programmes for site and resource specific strategies, classification of monitoring techniques and use (physical, chemical, biological, and radioactive),

 

Human activities on the global environment, e.g. green house, effect, climate change, depletion of stratosphere ozone layer, acid rain, elements of air pollution control, sampling and monitoring, mechanism of pollutant interaction with soil and vegetation, and general principles of bio-testing, aquatic toxicity and bioassay.

 

Topics

 

1.    Greenhouse Effect

2.    Acid Rain: Causes, Effects and Solutions

3.    Land pollution

4.    Water pollution

5.    Air pollution

6.    Noise pollution

Light pollution