Eco-Environment and Global Biodiversity, Vols. 1 and 2/Reena Mohanka and
M.P. Singh. New Delhi, MD Pub., 2008, xx, 856 p., tables, figs., ISBN 81-7533-120-4.
Eco-Environment and Global Biodiversity, Vols. 1 and 2/Reena Mohanka and
M.P. Singh. New Delhi, MD Pub., 2008, xx, 856 p., tables, figs., ISBN 81-7533-120-4.
Contents: Vol. I: Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. Natural resources. 3. Community ecology and pollution. 4. The world environment scenario. 5. Pollution control. 6. Environmental impact assessment. 7. Air pollution. 8. Water pollution. 9. Noise pollution. 10. Domestic pollution. 11. Atmosphere. 12. The environment (Protection) Bill, 1986: A Bill. 13. An introduction: biodiversity. 14. Biodiversity loss. 15. Technique of biodiversity conservation and its implication. 16. Biodiversity conservation: India scenario.
Vol. II: Preface. 17. Biodiversity conservation: value addition through biotechnology. 18. Biodiversity conservation: legal aspects. 19. Methods used for biodiversity conservation. 20. Impact of biodiversity convention on conservation. 21. Global gene bank. 22. Importance of biodiversity. 23. Biodiversity in Western Ghats. 24. Plant Protection International Convention. 25. Biodiversity in farming. 26. Biodiversity loss and threat. 27. Social biota for biodiversity. 28. Conservation of biodiversity in future strategies for India. 29. Biodiversity and neotropical primates. 30. Biodiversity for tropical. 31. Biological diversity convention. 32. Hot spot information.
"Eco-environment plays an important role in combating desertification, preventing erosion problems, other protective erosion problems, climatic change and acting as carbon reservoirs and sinks. The vital role of Eco-environment in protecting fragile ecosystems, watersheds and freshwater reservoirs and as storehouses of rich biodiversity should be recognized and contain not only woody species and wild animals but also a wealth of other species of actual or potentially socio-economic importance at the global, national and local levels, including wild relatives of important crop species.
God has gifted many things to us and we only have to preserve these precious gifts as these are major and most vital things for all living beings on the earth for their survival. So, the well being and survival of human beings depend on millions of species of plants and microbes which include species and varieties of crops, livestock and wildlife.
Biodiversity, which refers to the variety and variability among living organisms in our environment and the ecosystem complexes in which they occur is facing ecological catastrophes and within the next few decades it is likely to extinct according to the report "People and the Environment", released recently by the US based WRI. Rapid loss of biodiversity is caused by the destruction of habitats of wild animals by man, hunting, overexploitation, using pesticides, pollution of water, air, noise etc. Several techniques, legal aspects and action plans have been implemented for the conservation of biodiversity. Biotechnology has also added many scientific and engineering principles for conservation of biodiversity and its impact has also been discussed. Biodiversity maintains ecological balance and evolutionary processes and it has become an important topic for its conservation and management.
The first volume deals in the issues and causes of pollution of environment and its impact on nature and humans and the measures that are taken on a global basis to prevent Eco environment. This book is a sincere effort of the authors to provide compiled information on the subject. The second volume is a sincere effort of the authors not only for spreading awareness but also for providing information about the variety of living things existing in the environment and it suggests ways for its conservation and development."