Air Pollution: Development at What Cost?

Contents: Foreword. Preface. I. Air pollution: development at what cost?: 1. Air pollution monitoring/K. Shah and S.S. Bala. 2. Air quality in three different cement producing areas/N. Mehta and P.S. Dubey. 3. Control of biodeterioration: an ecofriendly approach/N.R. Shah and A. Arya. 4. Green belt, plant scavengers for combating air pollution/A. Leena, Y.T. Jasrai and S.K. Garge. 5. A study on comparative response of a crop and weeds associated with it, against Sulphur Dioxide toxicity/D.M. Kumawat, P. Pandya and N.K. Jain. 6. Vehicular exhaust emissions control in spark ignition engines with catalytic converter system/S.B. Rao, H.B. Mathur and M.K.G. Babu. 7. Evaluation of physico-chemical properties of different soils around cement producing areas/K.K. Kumbhkar and P.S. Dubey. 8. Effect of particulate (cement kiln dust) pollution on Hibiscus cannabinus L./Ch. Uma, T.V. Ramana Rao and J.A. Inamdar. 9. Study of environmental impact variables for highway projects/R.D. Bhatt and B.D. Vashi. 10. Strategies to control emissions in diesel driven vehicles/R.A. Nirmal, J. Chandrasekar and K. Balagurunathan. 11. Fungal biodeteriogens associated with Mummy in Museum and Picture Gallery, Baroda/A. Arya, A.R. Shah & S. Sadasivan. 12. Two unrecorded bio-pollutants causing damage to ornamental plants in Vadodara/C. Arya and A. Arya. 13. Survey of air pollutants from combustion process of various industries/N.M. Bhatt, A.D. Galgale and S. Chawda. 14. Methanol fumigation in DI diesel engine for control of NOx/K. Balagurunathan, S. Prasad, R. Ramanadhan, R. Ram Kumar and K. Thanaraj. 15. Avifauna amidst industrial pollution/G.S. Padate and S. Sapana. 16. Methane efflux and climate change/S.N. Singh. 17. Floristic diversity and biotic pressure in Shoolpaneshwar Wildlife Sanctuary, Gujarat/G. Pradeepkumar, G. Prathapsenan and Y.T. Jasrai. 18. Ganoderma: a fungus used in biosorption/A. Arya and V.M. Raole. 19. Response of wheat plants to simulated acid rain/B. Singh and M. Agrawal. II. Pollution: monitoring, assessment and solutions: 20. Air pollution: development at what cost?/P.S. Rao. 21. Environmental legislation, policies and governance in India/R.C. Trivedi. 22. ISO 14001 – environmental standards/V.S. Patel. 23. Environment performance evaluation/Y.T. Jasrai. 24. Monitoring of man made pollutants/V. Singh. 25. Environment audits as a planning tool in an Indian context/J. Nansey. 26. Environmental and how it affects human health/P.V. Kotecha. 27. Role of monitoring in air pollution control/H.V. Bhavnani. 28. Ozone depletion: a global problem/B.V. Kamath and V.S. Patel. 29. Population explosion and pollution/S. Kumar. Generic index. Subject index.

"India is making rapid advances in terms of economic development to meet our requirements. This is in turn responsible for mitigating poverty and eleviating living standards but also caused alarming pollution. Development at all front including industry is must for the society, however, it is mandatory that the human race is not in danger at the price of long strides of development. Now it is high time that we pay due attention for the abatement of ever escalating pollution.

"In this context, this book, dealing mainly with the menace of air pollution has been divided in two sections namely —

Sources, effects, various means to mitigate and monitoring of air pollution.
Assessment, monitoring and solutions for air pollution.
"It is intended to supply scientific documentation of various aspects of air pollution. It is expected that this compiled information will be of great importance to scientists, teachers, policy makers, technologists, government agencies, environmentalists as well as the students of various universities and research institutions. This will provide ample material for generating environmental awareness among the citizens and society concerned with this alarming problem of ever-increasing air pollution." (jacket)