ISC Class 12 Environmental Science Syllabus 2025: The detailed and complete syllabus for CISCE Board Class 12th Environmental Science for the upcoming exam is available here. All the students who are going to appear for the ISC Board Exams in 2025 must check the syllabus to ensure that they do not miss any major topic.
The ISC Class 12 Environmental Science subject has been divided into two parts, theory paper and project work/practical work where the theory paper will be for 70 marks and the question paper will be set by the board. On the other hand, the project work, which is the part of internal assessment will be of 30 marks and the question paper will not be set by the CISCE Board.
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ISC Class 12 Environmental Science Syllabus 2025
Check the detailed ISC Class 12 Environmental Science Syllabus 2024-2025 in the table below.
| SECTION A |
| Human Beings and Nature - Modern schools of ecological thought
- Deep ecology (Gary Snyder, Earth First) vs. shallow ecology
- Stewardship of land (e.g. Wendell Berry)
- Social ecology [Marxist environmentalism and socialist ecology (Barry Commoner)]
- Feminism
- Green Politics (e.g. Germany and England)
- Sustainable Development
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| Population and Conservation Ecology - Population dynamics: factors causing population change (birth, death, immigration and emigration); relation between the factors; age structure and its significance; population pyramids; survivorship curves; three general shapes r and K strategies\
- Human populations (Malthusian model and demographic transition).
- Population Regulation: growth without regulation (exponential); simple population regulation (logistic growth curve); factors regulating population size (space, food and water, territories, predators, weather and climate, parasite and diseases, disasters and self-regulation).
- Human population control: family planning; education; economic growth; status of women
- Threats to the ecosystem: habitat destruction; genetic erosion; loss of diversity; expanding agriculture; impound water; waste from human societies; increasing human consumption
- Conservation: importance; the critical state of Indian forests; conflicts surrounding forested areas - populations and tribals and their rights - tourism - poaching - roads - development projects - dams; scientific forestry and its limitations; social forestry; the role of the forest department; NGOs; joint forestry management; wild life - sanctuaries, conservation and management in India; Project Tiger as a case study in conservation
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| Monitoring Pollution - Pollution monitoring
- Monitoring the atmosphere: techniques
- International and national air quality standards
- Water testing: indicators of water quality
- Soil testing: indicators of soil type and quality and laboratory work
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| SECTION B |
| Third World Development - Urban-rural divide: urbanisation - push and pull factors; consequences on rural and urban sectors; future trends and projections
- A critical appraisal of conventional paradigm of development from the viewpoints of sustainability, environmental impact and equity
- A case study of Gandhian approach in terms of its aims and processes
- Urban environmental planning and management: problems of sanitation; water management; transport; energy; air quality; housing; constraints (economic, political) in tackling the problems; inapplicability of solutions that have worked in the First World and the need for indigenous approach to urban environment
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| Sustainable Agriculture - Traditional Agriculture in India: irrigation systems; crop varieties; techniques for maintaining soil fertility; impact of colonialism; Indian agriculture at independence, food scarcity, food import, need for increasing production, the need for land reform; green revolution, HYVs, fertilizers, pesticides, large irrigation projects (dams); critical appraisal of the green revolution from the viewpoints of agro-bio diversity; soil health; ecological impact of pesticides; energy (petroleum and petrochemicals); ability to reach the poorer sections of the rural communities; sustainability, need for sustainable agriculture, characteristics for sustainable agriculture; techniques of water soil and pest management
- Food: the twin problems of production and access; food situation in the world; integrated and sustainable approach to food security for the Third World. Food Security
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| SECTION C |
| Environmental and Natural Resource Economics - Definition: resources; scarcity and growth; natural resource accounting
- GNP vs. other forms of measuring income
- Economic status and welfare (net economic welfare, nature capital, ecological capital, etc.)
- Externalities: cost benefit analysis (social, ecological)
- Natural capital regeneration
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| International Relations and the Environment - Trans-national characteristics of environmental issues using case study of Amazonia, Trade in Wildlife and Ozone Depletion
- Impact of international politics, national sovereignty and interest
- International trade: a theoretical perspective; free trade vs. protectionism; import barriers; domestic industry vs. free trade; transnational companies, a historical perspective (colonialism and its lasting impact today); trade between the first and the third world, characteristics, terms of trade; India's international trade, characteristics, major imports and exports, foreign exchange crises, the export imperative and its impact on the environment; the case study of aquaculture in India; diversion of scarce resource from production of subsistence needs to commercial products; toxic waste trade, extent and impact; Globalisation, trade regimes (WTO, GATT, IPR) and their impact on third world
- International aid: agencies; advantages; limitations; need for re-orienting aid; aid vs self-reliance.
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ISC Class 12 Environmental Science Project Work/Practical Work
Details related to project work/practical work for ISC Class 12 Envrionmental Science has been provided below. Students will have to choose any one of the following options as a part of ther internal assessment.
- Address a current environmental problem (preferably at local or regional scale) and should include problem identification and analysis, use of secondary data as well as some collection of primary data, design of solution, documentation of the entire process in the form of a solution proposal.
- Design and conduct an environment impact assessment. The candidates may use secondary data, demonstrate their capacity to collect and analyse primary data by incorporating some primary data collected and use it in a few sectors of their work.
- Systematic monitoring of an aspect of the local environment over a period of at least six months. The candidate must use quantitative techniques of monitoring, sampling scientifically. The data collected must be interpreted and presented in the report.
- Field work and training in an environmental organisation (NGOs, Industrial Pollution Control Firms, Testing Laboratories, etc.) for a period of not less than one month. This work should be focused on one area in the syllabus. The candidate will produce a paper on the area of his/her work and training which will include his/her experience and the special expertise that she/he has acquired.
- Conduct a study on the density and population of plants growing in a particular area using the quadral method.
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