Scientific Approach to Environment/S.B. Ghosh. Jaipur, Ritu Pub.,
2009, vi, 226 p., tables, figs., ISBN 81-87445-33-3.
Scientific Approach to Environment/S.B. Ghosh. Jaipur, Ritu Pub.,
2009, vi, 226 p., tables, figs., ISBN 81-87445-33-3.
Contents: Preface. 1. Environment and ecology. 2. The environment and technology. 3. Industrial effluent and its treatment. 4. Waste treatment methods past, present and future. 5. Quality norms and Indian industry standards. 6. Waste control technology and its future scope. 7. Environmental education.
"There is more to environmental issues than vanishing tigers and denuded hill sides, pesticides and pollution. Endangered ecologies or despoiled landscapes are but a small part of a whole spectrum of issues that affect the quality of our lives. So often, these issues are about the way we do or do not live.
No where in the world are environmental issues are glaring as in India today.
One among the dozen countries with the most array of life forms. India is also a home to one of every six humans on earth. Because of population pressure, the often flawed state policies and the disconnect between the need of environment and local understanding of issues, significant section of the population, many of whom are unprivileged, enter in to conflict over a range of basic environmental concerns. This also gives rise to a host of responses to these multiple crises. How these crises are resolved will have consequences far behind India's borders.
This book elaborates in details the socio-economic issues on environment and ecology and how it affects the overall development. Because pollution free environment does not mean minus development. This book envisages development with minimum tolerable pollution if elimination of pollution is not possible.
This book will provoke, educate, stimulate and inform the lay reader and specialist alike. Any one keen to no more about why and how of India's environment will find this volume an invaluable source." (jacket)