Contents: Foreword. Preface. Acknowledgements. 1. Environment and education/Sunderlal Bahuguna. 2. Managing ecological concerns related to economic development/G.S. Bhalla and Hema Khanna. 3. Vedic wisdom for survival/Shanta Chatterji. 4. Environmental degradation: correctives available in agriculture/S.S. Johl. 5. Nobel for Wangari Jury Skirts issues of war and peace/Punyapriya Dasgupta. 6. Environmental awareness: an evaluation/Hema Khanna and G.S. Bhalla. 7. Pope calls energy alternatives: a source of peace/Ian Fisher. 8. President Kalam's Green Justice: the H.T. correspondent. 9. Water wars loom large: poor access to water hampers development/Anita Inder Singh. 10. Desertification: an assessment and remedies/G.S. Bhalla and Hema Khanna. 11. A model for sustainable development in India/G.S. Bhalla. 12. Chipko Movement spreads to Northern India/Varinder Walia. 13. Keep forests intact for the future generation/Sunderlal Bahuguna. 14. Fiscal measures for pollution control defective/G.S. Bhalla and H.S. Bhalla. 15. Air in India: unfit to breath?/Vibha Sharma. 16. Deficient environmental taxation in India/Hardeep Kaur and G.S. Bhalla. 17. Green taxation and economic development/Hema Khanna. 18. Symphony of the Vienna Woods/Unvanthi Balaram. 19. Environment reporting practices in India/Niti Singh and G.S. Bhalla. 20. Economic development and ecological environment are closely related/G.S. Bhalla and Hema Khanna. 21. Way to defend eco-environment and civilization/Sunder Lal Bahuguna. 22. Plant a tree at Easter: a message to masses/Wangari Maathai (Nobel Laureate). 23. Environmental accounting and reporting practices: a study of selected Indian companies/H.S. Bhalla and Ruchi Trehan. 24. Industry needs Green Revolution/G.S. Bhalla and Hema Khanna. 25. Prospecting for 'Green' diesel/N. Gopal Raj. 26. One issue, two responses: ecological concerns/V.N. Narayanan. 27. Inventing environment friendly technology: the Hindu correspondent. 28. What the mind conceives, man achieves?/D. Balasubramanian. 29. Bhagat Puran Singh on tree felling/G.S. Bhalla. 30. Depleting water table/Saifuddin Soz. 31. The Chipko Movement/Sunder Lal Bahuguna. 32. Judiciary in defence of trees/G.S. Bhalla and Hema Khanna. 33. On the brink, still?/Ashish Kothari. 34. Environmental reporting in India: a case study/H.S. Bhalla, Summi Arora, Hardeep Kaur and Hema Khanna. 35. Climate change and energy policy: Indian scenario/Neena Malhotra, Hardeep Kaur and G.S. Bhalla. 36. Environmental solutions through Indian scriptures/Dharminder Singh Ubha. 37. Higher education and sustainability/Dalwinder Kaur, Neena Malhotra and G.S. Bhalla. 38. Promoting sustainable development through universities/Dalwinder Kaur, G.S. Bhalla and Hardeep Kaur. Index.
"It's long; the environmentalists of vision started their campaign to enlighten the masses an the different governments about the possible fall out of the ecological degradation.
The first among them was Edward Goldsmith who anticipated the civilizations' devastation because of fast economic growth after the industrial revolution in the middle of nineteenth century.
The father of the Indian nation and an apostle of peace, Mahatma Gandhi realized the impact of industrial development in the beginning of the nineteenth century and expressed his deep concern about ecological environment.
Other environmentalists including the living legend Mr. Sunder Lal Bahuguna dedicated whole of his life in defending the ecological environment. The reference to ecological environment would be incomplete without the mention of the saint of Pingalwara, (Late) Bhagat Puran Singh who spared no effort to spread ecological awareness and his successor Dr. Inderjit Kaur who is following in his footsteps.
Ms. Wangari Maathai did an honour to the Noble Prize by making it green and his holiness the spiritual leader of Tibetans Mr. Dalai Lama and the honorable Prime Minister of the country Dr. Manmohan Singh have stressed the need for a balanced and sustainable development.
The first citizen of the country, Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam in his ten point programme to the youth of the country made it a point to direct them to plant trees and desist from deforestation.
This book is a humble effort of the authors in this direction. The edited volume contains distilled wisdom on the subject of environmental education and ecological degradation." (jacket)
