AMS 801
Engineering Technology and Climate Change (3 Units)
Agricultural activities and an thropogenic HYPERLINK global warming. Concept of carbon credits. Global energy balance and climate change.
Green house gases (GHG) such as CO , Methane, Chlorouorocarbons (CFC’s), and 2 Nitrous Oxide associated with crop farming, monoculture, agrochemical, animal husbandry, burning of fossil fuel, deforestation, agricultural wastes, etc. Multidisciplinary approach of mitigating the effects of Climate Change: Policy, Legal and Economic Approach; Technical Approach; Research Approach; etc. Measurement
and quantification of GHGs. Technology for carbon mitigating green house gas effects: Carbon Capture and Sequestration (CSS). Agricultural mechanization practices for mitigating the effects of climate change.