Biodiversity, Environment and Sustainability

Contents: Preface. Acknowledgement. 1. The future possibility of geothermal energy resources in Australia and how Australia can help India/Joan Schreijaeg-Gilmour. 2. Studying the effect of various densities on the trend of growth, yield and component yield of three varieties of Soybean in climatic conditions of Kermanshah/Keyvan Shamsi and Soheil Kobraei. 3. Traditional uses and distribution of plants in Cold Desert of Trans-Himalaya/K.N. Singh, Pankaj Jamwal and Brij Lal. 4. Public-private partnership in forest seed systems: key to rapid improvement of biodiversity, environment and sustainability/Preeti Rajpal Singh and Antonia Agmata Paliwal. 5. A study on Gangetic dolphins and conservational issues/Helina Jolly. 6. Assessment of diversity and relationship among Cotton germplasm for drought resistance and fibre quality traits using morphological, physiological and molecular tools/A. Gopikrishnan, N. Jagadeesh Selvam, R. Ravikesavan and N. Manikanda Boopathi. 7. Fauna, flora and faith: essence of environment Alism Alism in Hindu religious thought/Chandreyi Banerjee and Gautam Basu. 8. Biodegradation of Aminobenzenesulfonates by a bacterial co-culture/Surjeet Singh, S.K. Awasthi, Pratima Bajpai, Poonam Singh and Leela Iyengar. 9. Biodiversity and role of microbiology and biotechnology in environment Biopesticide/Iyer Varsha. 10. The contribution of the Peduncle and Penultimate Internode for the mobilization of stem reserves in wheat under terminal drought/Reza Shahryari. 11. Ecophysiological analysis of vernacular plant species used for ecosystem recovery of Coalmine Overburden dumping site/H.P. Deka Boruah, N. Saikia, J. Gogoi, N. Pathak and A.K. Handique. 12. Emerging trends in enhancement of cotton fiber productivity and quality using functional genomics tools/S.B. Nimbalkar, P.H. Sawant and R.A. Hegde. 13. Low cost component protocol for In Vitro Micro tuber seed production of potato: review and future strategy/Anoop Badoni and J.S. Chauhan. 14. Evaluation of stress response of Gmelina Arborea to Coalmine overburden stress/N. Pathak, J. Gogoi, H.P. Deka Boruah and A.K. Handique. 15. Mycorrhizal inoculation of some medicinal plants: field trials/Yudhvir K. Bhoon. 16. Compost tea and its effect on growth of tomato seedlings/R. Sunitha and P. Subramanian. 17. Biodiversity in arid lands of Rajasthan/Amrita Bajaj and Rajesh Kumar Abhay. 18. Floral distribution pattern in surroundings of Sidculife-Pantnagar/T. Banerjee, R.K. Srivastava and U. Melkania. 19. Isolation, production and partial purification of xylanase from Rhizopus species/R.D. Kamble and A.R. Jadhav. 20. Molecular diversity of Re1A enzyme in marine bacteria--a bioinformatics analysis/Ambily Nath I.V., Tresa Remya A.T., Akshata Alornekar and Neena Susan Varghese. 21. Relationships between yield components of advanced potato cultivars in irrigation periods by the use of path analysis and factor analysis/Davoud Hassanpanah. 22. Structural and functional characterization of a 4-Chlorosalicyclic acid degradation microbial community in the Chemostat for the treatment of pulp and paper mill/V. Venkat Ramanan, Shachi Shah and I.S. Tahkur. 23. Optimization of Laccase dose and the reaction time for the detoxification of Saccharum spontaneum hydrolysate for bioethanol production using Pichia Stipitis/Gupta Priti. 24. Antifungal and antitumor activities of a novel protein from Indian squill urginea indica Kunth/M.N. Shiva Kameshwari and K.J. Tharasaraswathi. 25. Feeding preferences of Eisenia fetida Zinia/K.G. Soni and Chetna. 26. Impact of tourism on biodiversity: a case study of Sariska Tiger Reserve/Nidhi Gandhi. 27. Ground water analysis in the rural area of district Gurdaspur (Punjab)/Chetna Mahajan and Zinia. 28. Ecotourism: a modern approach to improving biodiversity, environment and sustainability/Preeti Rajpal Singh and Antonia Agmata Paliwal. 29. Environment and sustainable development--challenges today with a vision for future/Dewan Anjali. 30. Environment and consumer: global quest for sustainable consumption/Sheetal Kapoor. 31. Folk biomedicines and traditional practices to cure various veterinary diseases in Kangra District of Himachal Pradesh, Western Himalaya/Sheetal Kapoor. 32. Media coverage of climate change: a case study of Indian English Language Dailies/Bharvi Dutt, K.C. Garg and Pramila Kumari Kumari. 33. Energy budget of summer crops in a mountain agro-ecosystem in Kumaun Himalaya/Kundan Singh, Vir Singh, Uma Melkania and J.P.N. Rai. 34. "Genetic Evaluation and Characterisation of Bamboo species"/M.S. Bhandari, Tripti Das and S.K. Tewari. 35. Disaster management through remote sensing and GIS/Neeraj Kumar Singh.

""Today's neglected decisions become tomorrow's crisis". This well known expression sums up in a few words the fact that environmentalists, scientists, farmers and mankind as a whole have been warning governments throughout the world for the past fifty years about the need to give thought to the environment as a consequence of the problems involved with too many factories bellowing smoke, too many cars, trucks and buses polluting the air with the use of fossil fuels (petrol and diesel), too much urbanization and a population growth which has got out of control.

The International Conference on Biodiversity, Environment and Sustainability Challenges for Future to be held at Delhi University, India on Sept. 4-6, 2008, promises to provide answers to most of the world's current problems. 

It can now be written that "Today's crisis are the result of neglected decisions which have failed the biodiversity of the planet in turn have destroyed all branches of the Environment which has left no room for a sustainable development, be it on land, in the seas or in the air". 

We are a planet in crisis. This book is a tool to return the planet to the Sustainable Development it can have only by resuming an understanding of the balance between Biodiversity and the Environment. The challenge is there. This book promises Solutions."