Contents: Preface. 1. Watershed management: an overview/O.P. Goel. 2. Maharashtra Pollution Control Board and environmental awareness/R.B. Patil and Smriti Bhosle. 3. Noise pollution in the growing city of Balasore: sociological exploration/P.K. Kar. 4. Understanding of the process of G.E.C. and its impact on human life/Sushila Jain. 5. The Indian Desert: environmental manipulations posing risk to long-term sustenance/M.M. Saxena. 6. Revisiting Baliraja: Towards an Indian environmental movement/Satyapriya Rout. 7. Ecological issues in Mumbai City/Kalpana Deokar. 8. Approaching conservation through community action/Aditya Keshari Mishra and Sangram K. Mishra. 9. Overnight disappearance of pond water/A.K. Shandilya, Shishir Sharma, Rajni Sharma and Sharda Sharma. 10. Exploring the solar energy: a search for the alternative/Sonu Shiva and Madhusudan Gaur. 11. Environmental protection: some suggestions/Lekha Agrawal. 12. Legal and constitutional provisions for protection of environment in India/M.K. Jain. 13. Environmental pollution/Krishna Bharadwaj. 14. Environmental decay and its impact on tribal economy/P.C. Jain. 15. Environmental stress to mining of Limestone at Nimbahera/Ashutosh Vyas and Aruna Pancholi. 16. Social change in Indian society: governmental efforts through reservation/Kusum Lata Bharadwaj. 17. Possibility of earthquake and environment impact in Kota Region/Kalyan Hironi and Ankita Sanadhya. 18. Economic growth and global environment/Jyoti Kapoor Bhargava and Anami Bhargava. 19. Environmental degradation protection/Indu Thakur. 20. Population explosion and environmental degradation/Rajni Sharma and Shishir Sharma. 21. Environmental impacts of floods/Harkanwal Kaur and Kalyan Hironi. 22. Socio-culture effects of tourism on environment of Ajmer/Subroto Dutta and Vinita Gupta. 23. Population growth and social responsibility towards environment/Laxmi Thakur. 24. The environmental crisis: different approaches/R.K. Saxena.
From the Preface: "The articles in this book cover varied dimensions of environment protection viz. legal, constitutional provisions, generation of awareness and case studies related to specific regions. The book also highlights areas such as watershed management, promotion of sustainable use of natural resources and pollution of air, water, space, outer space, land areas and oceans."
