Contents: I. Invited Papers: 1. Relevance of earth sciences in societal issues/Ravi Shanker. 2. Arsenic contamination in groundwater in parts of Ambagarh Chowki - Korse Kohri Belt (Dongargarh - Kotri Rift Zone), Chhattisgarh/S.K. Acharyya, I.D. Ashyiya, Y. Pandey, S. Lahiri, V.W. Khangan and S.K. Sarkar. 3. Radioactive waste management and its impact on environment/K.B. Lal. 4. Snow and ice -- it's role in the eco-system and national development/V.K. Raina. 5. Proxy records of neotectonics, climate changes and anthropogenic activity in the late quarternary of Ganga Plain/Indra Bir Singh. 6. Palaeoenvironmental assessment of Central Narmada Valley from the Mid - Pleistocene times - implications from palaeontology/G.L. Badam. 7. Quaternary fluvial geomorphology in Western India/Sheila Mishra. II. Theme : Geoenvironmental studies : a. Environmental impact management: 1. Geoenvironmental appraisal of East Khasi Hills and Jaintia Hills districts, Meghalaya/Ramesh Chandra Shukla, Surendra Prasad and P.K. Yadav. 2. Geoenvironmental assessment of Mauda industrial area, Nagpur District, Maharashtra/Prem Babu, M. Sinha, T.G. Mohankar and Darshan Kumar. 3. Assessment of natural resources and geoenvironmental hazards of Rae Bareili District, Uttar Pradesh/Surendra Prasad, R.P. Rai, N.A. Khan and P.K. Yadav. 4. ISO-14001 : a new approach to integrate environmental management issues/P.B. Rastogi. 5. Geoenvironmental assessment of Banda and Chitrakoot Districts, U.P./Subhash C. Roy, H.N. Shukla, Atul K. Srivastava, Ajai K. Sinha, and Ashwani Kapoor. 6. Environmental impact of reclamation of a swampy area near Chennai metropolis/K.R. Ramachandran and A. Prabhakar. 7. The environmental impact on development of geothermal resources and its management/G.K. Gupta and R.K. Aggarwal. 8. Environmental impact assessment methodology and strategy for developing countries/M.M. Dutta. 9. Inventory of degraded lands and landcover, classification of a part of lower Chambal Valley, using satellite images - an NDVI based approach/Padmini Pani, S.N. Mohapatra and U.C. Singh. 10. Regional degradational index - a new approach in a review of environmental rating/E.A. Khan and S.K. Kar. b. Geoenvironment in urban and rural development: 11. Integrated village economy resource surveys in Tinsukia District of Upper Assam - an appraisal/M. Karunaker Reddy, Prem Prakash and V. Ramesh. 12. Geoenvironmental problems and landuse planning around Haidargarh, Barabanki District, Uttar Pradesh/Brijendra Kumar Bisaria and Brajendra Nath Pandey. 14. Geoenvironmental appraisal in rural areas - feasibility of incorporating participatory techniques in latest scientific methods - a case study/Arup Kumar Saikia, Manoj Kumar Baruah and Sushil Ch. Goswami. 15. Geoenvironmental appraisal of Barabanki District, Uttar Pradesh/Prakash Chandra. 16. Geoenvironmental appraisal of Banswara District Rajasthan/Ajai Kumar Sinha, Ashwini Kapoor, D. Shrivastava, Shyam Narain and Vikram Raj. 17. District resource map and its relevance in developmental activities with particular reference to Pratapgarh District, Uttar Pradesh/B.N. Pandey, B.K. Bisaria and S.K. Srivastava. 18. Geoenvironmental assessment of a part of Sundebran biosphere, Hugli delta, West Bengal/Amit K. Ray, R.K. Roy and Bikas C. Roy. 19. Influence of geoenvironment on developmental activities in the Indian context/Harsh Gupta. 20. A vision for Pune in 2020 for its sustainable development/Eshwara and Vikram Rai. 21. Geoenvironmental appraisal of Sirsa District, Haryana/S.K. Gadhok. 22. Geoenvironmental appraisal of Serchhip and Champhai townships in Mizoram/S. Chopra and S. Pareek. 23. Geoenvironmental studies in parts of West Tripura District in the light of DOVEMAP/B. Tirkey, K.C. Bandyopadhyay, Bashir Md. Shah, N.J. Sumanth, P.K. Datta, P. Gangopadhyay, Tapan Ghosh and S.H. Wankhade. 24. Geoenvironmental assessment of Haryana/J.L. Thussu, Kamal Kazim and K. Kachroo. 25. Geophysical attributes in the geoenvironmental assessment of Lucknow District, Uttar Pradesh/S.K. Singh, R.K. Misra and S.P. Chaubey. 26. Changing landuse scenario in Sultanpur District, Uttar Pradesh, India/Vishnu C. Srivastava, Subhash C. Roy and Mukesh Nagar. 28. Micro-landslide hazard zonation studies for urban planning around Gangtok, Sikkim State/L.P. Singh, T.B. Ghoshal. Md. Fahim, G.C. Kandpal, A. Dutta and R.K. Roy. 29. Augmenting urban drinking water requirements in salinity infested groundwater environs of Agra District. Uttar Pradesh: geophysical perspective/B.B. Trivedi, M.M. Srivastava, Mohd. Adil, M.K. Bhowmic and P.C. Chandra. 30. Remote sensing in earth sciences investigation in Uttar Pradesh and Uttaranchal/P.N. Shah and A.N. Singh. 33. Role of integrated survey in environmental assessment and management - a case study of Kaithal District, Haryana/Harbans Singh and A.K. Guptas. 34. Geoenvironment of Mizoram and its implications in development/U.S. Rawat and C.P.S. Parihar. 35. Landuse in Ganga plain of Uttar Pradesh/P.N. Singh, A.U. Khan and B.K. Bisaria. c. Environmental hazards: mining and radioactive waste: 36. environmental management plan of areas around Mansar and Kandri manganese mines area, Nagpur District, Maharashtra/G. Gonnade, N.V. Nitnaware and M. Sinha. 37. Geoenvironmental reclamation of hazardous waste disposal sites/P.B. Rastogi. 38. Relevance of syn exploration baseline data generation to exploitation of coal resources/U.K. Ray and Subrata Chakravarti. 39. Environmental management of mining sector/Abhiraj Singh. 40. Anticipated hazards of mining and environmental management of Sathang Dhar Silica sand deposit, Dehradun District, Uttaranchal/A. Chatterjee, J.V. Natani and Mangala Prasad. 41. Geoenvironmental appraisal of impacts of mining in parts of Singrauli coalfield, District Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh/Subhash Chander Roy. 42. Gold exploitation and its environmental impact - a future scenario/S.P. Rastogi and Mangala Prasad. 43. Environmental impact and management of stone quarries of Bundelkhand region, South Uttar Pradesh/N.K. Agarwal and S.P. Nim. Authors' index. (Four articles are in Hindi).
