Environmental and Ecological Issues in India

Contents: Preface. Acknowledgements. 1. Introduction. 2. Environment and pollution. 3. Environment protection acts. 4. India and its ecosystems. 5. Sustainable development of water resource. 6. Statistical evidence of environmental perception. Bibliography. Index.

"Land, Water, Forest, Marine and oil resources are free gifts of the nature to the human being. Environment is a holistic view of the world as it functions at anytime, with a multitude of special elemental and socio-economic systems distinguished by quality and attributes of space and mode of behaviour of biotic and abiotic forms. It may be concluded that environment consists of an inseparable whole system constituted by physical, chemical, biological, social and cultural elements which are interlinked individually and collectively in myriad ways.

Environment is a fairly new concept and viewed with different angles by the human society. The word environment has been defined in a number of ways, for example, environment is the sum of all social, economical, biological, physical and chemical factors, which constitute the surrounding of man, who is both creator and moulder of his environment. Environment is the representative of physical components of the earth wherein man is the important factor influencing his environment. Environmentalist refers to the sum total conditions which surround man at a given point in space and time.

This book, is an attempt to analyse various burning issues of environment and also throw lights the various possible amicable solutions to the solve the problem of global warming, environmental degradation and the role of voluntary environmental organizations like green peace movement, club of Rome Pasumai Thaiyagam and so on." (jacket)