Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management-Kerala (IIITM-K) is an autonomous premier educational institution established by the Government of Kerala in year 2000.
IIITM-K is located at Technopark Campus, Thiruvananthapuram, the capital city of Kerala.
Master of Philosophy in Ecological Informatics
Course Description
Ecological Informatics (EI) is a trans-disciplinary subject that integrates ecology, computational sciences, informatics and social sciences, in order to improve our understanding of ecological processes and expand socio-ecological theory to integrate the earth’s natural systems, human values, human health and well-being. A suite of disciplines – ecology, informatics, computational sciences, ecological economics, anthropology, sociology and demography constitute EI.
Course Duration and credits
The course will be for a period of one year with two semesters. The candidates will spend first semester at IIITM-K and the second under a mentor at one of the collaborating institution
Collaborating Departments/institution
* Center for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
* Indian Institute of Remote Sensing, Dehradun
* The French Institute, India, Pondicherry
Core Courses
* Ecological Physics and Landscape Ecology
* Quantitative Ecology
* Information Systems
* Spatial Informatics
* Programming and Database
* Ecological Economics
* Ecological Anthropology Sociology & demography
* Research Methodology
For more details: http://www.iiitmk.ac.in
Researched by Maninder