Contents: Preface. Contributors. 1. Opencast coal mining in northern coalfields limited : an environmental friendly approach/V.K. Singh and N. Das. 2. Development and social environment: conflicting domains/Aradhana Borthakur. 3. Development and environment: a plan to reduce contradiction/Sunita Singhal and Jitendra Singhal. 4. Promoting environmental protection through Indian mythology/Renu Rai. 5. The green concrete making with utilization of Oman Sea Chalky Seashell/Ahmad Soltan Zadeh, Fatemeh Soltanzadeh and Zahra Soltanzadeh. 6. Ponds and water bodies in the city of Varanasi : State of the Art/Ajai Srivastava and Kshitij Mohan. 7. Water Quality Index WQI of the Western Zone of Narmada River, Madhya Pradesh a preimpoundmental study/Virendra K. Soni, Mukesh S. Mewada, Mohammad D. Hussain and Sharad Shrivastava. 8. Water management traditions in rural India : crediting the unaccredited/Sanjay Bharti, Brijendra Singh Yadav and Brijesh Kumar Yadav. 9. The impact of over exploitation of iron ore resources on the ecosystem and bio diversity of Bellary Hospet area Bellary Karnataka/M.R. Patil and Sharath Kumar Bhoja. 10. Biodiversity depletion and its conservation through restoration of the forest ecosystem in Gaya District: a study in environmental geography/Kaushalendra Prakash Goswami. 11. Sustainable waste management: options and opportunities in Kolkata City/Srabani Sanyal and V.K. Kumra. 12. Strategic planning for sustainable urban management: Madhya Pradesh in focus/Arun K. Singh. 13. Strategic approaches to urban air quality management in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia/Alok Tiwari. 14. Prioritizing ecological considerations in urban governance/Sumana Bandyopadhyay. 15. Soil organic matter management for sustainable wheat crop production through multipurpose tree leaf application/Rajni Srivastava and K.P. Singh. 16. Strategic management of urban agriculture in Kolkata: a case study of Dhapa/Sayantani Sarkar. 17. Agro ecosystem analysis of zero tillrice wheat cropping system of Indo Gangetic plain/M.K. Singh and Naveen Khanal. 18. Environmental auditing new thrust areas/Parag Prakash. 19. Strategic initiatives in corporate social responsibility: towards ecological concerns/Alok Kumar. 20. Critical issues pertaining to the trading of carbon credits in the global marketplace/Amit Gautam and Amitabh Pandey. 21. Global green finance: issues and approaches for ensuring better environmental protection and sustainable development/Shyam Lal Dev Pandey. 23. Green marketing: challenges for the Third World/Manish Srivastava and Meenakshi A. Singh. 24. Legal provisions for environment protection in India/Shiv Kumar. 25. Environmental laws : intent and practical/Abhishek Kumar. 26. Environmental laws in India issues and challenges/Ravi Shekhar Vishal and Shardul Chaubey. 27. Environmental education for sustainable development and management/Gopal Kumar Singh and Rajeev Kumar Singh. 28. Behaviour and attitude of undergraduate students towards environmental awareness: a case study/Arun Kumar Singh, Shashi Singh and Vipin Kumar Singh. 29. Data requirements for building water resource management module in municipal GIS’s for managing urban environment/Satyam Mishra. 30. Management of environment: role of microfinance institutions/H.P. Mathur and Sofia Khan. 31. Climate change a multiplier of food insecurity: a scenario of Nepal/Safal Ambuhang Subba, Sushila, Kushmakar Gautam, Saket Kushwaha and Chandra Sen. 32. Management and monitoring of environment: the Indian context/Satish Modi. 33. Environment awareness through geography in schools/Albert Horo. 34. Engaged and applied Buddhism: a quest towards the strategic management of environmental conservation/Onkar Nath Singh and Rahul Raj. 35. Conservation of plant genetic resources for sustainable development of agro economy of Uttrakhand Himalayas: a case study of Basmati cultivation of Dehradun/M.P. Singh and D.K. Shahi. 36. Environmental management sustainable development and health in Kanpur City/Supriya Srivastav and Kanchan Gupta. 37. Municipal solid waste management: a case study of Varanasi City/Shweta Yadav and Ram Bilas. 38. Urban environmental problem of solid waste collection, disposal and its effect on child health : a study of Varanasi City/Smita Banerjee, Pawan Kumar Bhaskar, Amrita Dwivedi and V.K. Kumra. 39. Environmental aspects of water quality in Chandauli District U.P/Ram Raj and Ram Bilas. 40. Spatial pattern and management of daily commuters of Aligarh City/Abdul Munir, Deepika Varshney and Arshi Azmi. 41. Strategic management of green supply chain for sustainable development/Gyaneshwar Singh Kushwaha, Ashutosh Mohan and Deepak Barman.
The world population is increasing rapidly specially in developing countries demanding to accelerate their economic growth for the survival and to fulfill the basic needs simultaneously to maintain the high consumption level altogether have put our earth’s environment in danger. The natural/anthropogenic induced hazards/disasters like earthquakes landslides cyclones floods and droughts have increased during last few decades in terms of their frequency and intensity both particularly in Asia and Pacific Asia causing great loss to human beings and economy exhibiting many socio economic and political implications.
Realizing these facts academicians politicians administrators and planners etc. started to think and discuss these issues seriously at global level. It resulted into environment vs. development conflict. To achieve ad maintain the economic growth in different sectors of economy for the welfare of human beings without environmental degradation became a major challenge for every country of the world.
Environmental sustainability and socio economic development are today recognized as interdependent integral components of sustainable development and poverty reduction.
The present book is a compilation of research papers presented in the International Conference on Energy Environment and Disaster for Sustainable Development held at Banaras Hindu University Varanasi from 11 to 15 Jan 2010 jointly organized by faculty of management studies department of geography BHU and GSMI Michigon USA. The volume highlights various aspects and related issues of environment and development like conflicting domains environmental deterioration biodiversity depleti9on environmental perception and laws and role of GIS in effective management of urban environment.
