Environment Population and Resources : Critical Challenges/Sunit Gupta and Mukta Gupta. 1997, vii, 346 p., tables, $63.
Contents: Preface. 1. Increasing population and decreasing natural resources. 2. A challenge to attitude in our population growth. 3. Forest and wasteland development in India. 4. Forest polices in India. 5. Poverty and environmental degradation. 6. Urbanisation and economic development. 7. Energy: its demand and management. 8. Water: its management and conversation. 9. Physical examination of water. 10. Science, food and people. 11. Environmental pollution: causes and consequences. 12. Environment legislation: still long way ahead. 13. Selected references. 14. Population patterns. 15. Population and resources indicators.
"The world environment has reached a critical stage and the natural resources have been exploited far beyond their maximum sustainable limits. Prolonged disregard of nature and cumulative impact of industrialization, misuse and over-use of natural resources has represented by water, air and soil degradation, global warming, depletion of stratospheric ozone, environmental pollution, increasing population pressure, loss of biodiversity and economic disparities. The complex issues posed by rapid environmental degradation has forced us to re-examine the relationship between natural environment and human system. It is therefore, necessary to understand the scientific basis of environmental problems so that the public opinion can be more informed and that of others too who are generally concerned with the environmental problems.
Environment, Population and Resources reviews the environmental consequences, establishing the linkage between various ecosystem within the environment and integrating the ecological, commercial and human costs of environmental crisis. This book is designed to provide comprehensive view of the subject. It encompasses a wide range of content and approaches in the ambit and as such it is expected to be of much interest to a vast spectrum of scholars." (jacket)
[Sunit Gupta is Currently Director of Institute for Environmental Development Studies, Lucknow.]
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