Wasteland Management and Environment
Contents: Preface. 1. Wasteland management – an integrated approach/S.K. Varma. 2. Environment and Wasteland management – present status and future prospect/U.R. Biswas. 3. Wasteland management with sericulture plantation/A.K. Roy and Rashmi Kumari. 4. Revegetation of coal mine disturbed lands with mycorrhizae – problems and prospects/S. Ram Reddy and S.M. Reddy. 5. Microbes and Wasteland management : challenges ahead/R.C. Rajak and Kamal Prasad. 6. A low cost input approach for revegetation of coal mine spoil/A.K. Jha and J.S. Singh. 7. Vam colonization and growth of acacia melanoxylon in open cast coal mine disturbed soils/M.S. Rao, P. Pavan Kumar and S.R. Reddy. 8. Biological reclamation of coal mining overburden dumps/R.S. Singh, S.K. Chaulya and S.K. Singh. 9. Reclamation of Wastelands and protection of environment : a review/A.K. Kandya. 10. Environmental protection through Wasteland management – a case study of coastal Orissa/Malaya K. Misra. 11. Revegetation over pyrite waste dump of Amjhore mining areas/Kumar Birendra and R.S. Bilgrami. 12. Mining and Wasteland development/S.K. Singh. 13. Flora of Wastelands/P.K. Mukherjee. 14. Key environmental issues in some Indian industries/Arvinda Kumar Jha, S.K. Goel and V.Jha. 15. Natural durability of bamboo against fungal decomposition/S. Dutta, P. Dutta Majumdar and N.C. Chatterjee. 16. Wasteland management through social forestry in the Eastern Bihar/T.K. Pan, R.P. Upadhyaya and J. Duttamunshi. 17. Standardisation of nursery technologies : establishment of germ plasm bank and mass propagation of fuel wood species/S.C. Pal. 18. Management of soapstone mine waste dumps with special reference to its reclamation/Anal K. Jha and B.C. Mishra*. 19. Ecorestoration of mined Wasteland : an overview/Ambarish Mukherjee and Debnath Palit. 20. Management of Wasteland with stagnant water/K.R. Maurya and B.B. Mishra. 21. Drinking water quality and the related health Hazard in Jaunsar, around Nagthat in Lesser Himalaya/R.B.P. Singh, Piyoosh Rautela and Dinesh Sati. 22. Integrated technology mission for sustaining the productivity of salt –affected soils/B.B. Mishra, I.D. Singh, J. Mall, L.N. Singh and S.P. Singh. 23. Cement industry and its impact on agroecosystem/D.D. Pandey and Sanjeev Kumar. 24. Open cast coal mining in Dhanbad : effects on crop production/R. Prasad and B.K. Roy. 25. Influence of industrial soil pollutants on vam infection, nodulation and growth of Albizia Lebbeck (L) Benth/P. Srinivas, G. Laxma Reddy and S.M. Reddy. 26. Role of cyanobacteria in reclamation of ‘Usar’ Land/R.K. Gupta, K.D. Pandey and A.K. Kashyap. 27. Effect of liming on some heavy metals of copper mine tailing amended soil of Khetri area/Pankaj Kumar and Niraj Kumar. 28. Role of non-government organizations in management of Wasteland – a case study/R.B. Prasad and K. Sushma. 29. Problems and prospects for rapidly crowing Wasteland : a case study of Santhal Parganas in Bihar/Kanak K. Pandey.
"THE BOOK, "Wasteland Management and Environment" is the compilation of research papers and review articles contributed by the eminent scientists and research workers during National Symposium held on April 24 and 25, 1998 in the University Department of Botany, T.M. Bhagalpur University, Bhagalpur under the joint sponsorship of Ministry of Environment and Forests, New Delhi and this University. The proceeding embodies thirty articles on various aspects of Wasteland and its management. Moreover, emphasis has also been given on impacts of mining operation, development and antrhropogenic activities. Application of microbial technology to develop vegetation of different kinds in Wasteland have made this book more informative and fascinating. The book in its totality embodies worth information for the scientists of agriculture and forestry, environmental biology, government organizations and NGO’s.
"Nevertheless, this compitation will also be proved as handbook dealing with management of Wasteland to protect environment for teachers, researchers and students of Environmental Science". (jacket)
