Contents: Preface. Acknowledgements. Contributors. I. Environment and development: 1. Environmental refugees/Reji D. Nair. 2. Environment and development: Issues and action/Yogesh Upadhyay and Shiv Kumar Singh and S.B. Verma. 3. Altering market incentives: A strategy for sustainable development/Yogesh Upadhyay, S.K. Singh and S.B. Verma. 4. Business environment: An overview/S.B. Verma, A.B. Sharan and Sunil Kumar Verma. II. Environmental pollution and damages: 5. Phytoremediation: A green cure for metal pollution/S.D. Singh and Thomas Anish Johnson. 6. Environmental pollution denies the right to life/C. Gangaiah and C. Vasudevulu Naidu. 7. Festivities and pollution/Malladi Rama Rao. 8. Pollution mitigation through plants/Dilip Kumar Verma, Anoop Singh and S.B. Agrawal. 9. Environmental pollution and damage in developing countries/C. Gangaiah, M. Devarajulu and C. Vasudevulu Naidu. 10. Enhancing environment through Garbage Management/K. Manimozhi and M. Meena. 11. Effects of environmental factors on plant health/Ramesh Singh Yadav. III. Eco-Labeling of agriculture products: 12. Biofertilizer technology for economical and environmentally viable agricultural production/Naveen Kumar Arora and Alka Verma. 13. Eco-labeling of agricultural products/G.D. Banerjee. 14. Control of Jhum Cultivation - retrospect and prospect/Ram Krishna Mandal. 15. SALT: An effective alternative to shifting cultivation/Pradeep Baisakh. 16. Bio-diesel production from Jatropha/R.K. Khitoliya and Harminder Kaur. 17. Bio-Diesel : Challenges/M. Ravindranath and Praveen Mithra. 18. Bio-Diesel -- The Cornucopia of Fuel in the future/Etali Sarmah and Bedanga Bordoloi. 19. Biofuel for sustainable economy/L.D. Hatai. 20. Ethanol -- A renewable fuel/M.A. Lokhande. 21. Ethanol -- Environment friendly fuel of tomorrow/Jitendra Ahirrao. 22. Biomass conversion can transform rural India/C. Siva Murugan and V. Anbumani. IV. Conservation strategies and management: 23. Dynamics of heavy metals and their management/Manju Zacharias and S.D. Singh. 24. Protecting forests: Better conservation and management imperative/Dhurjati Mukherjee. 25. Conservation of wildlife in India/Ritesh Joshi. 26. Managing common property resources: A strategy for safe environment/K. Raja Mohan Rao. 27. The challenges of green power/V. Anbumani. 28. Biodiversity conservation should be the Mantra of the century/Narayana, K.S. 29. Adopt ISO 14001 (Environmental Management System) to protect the environment/R.K. Khitoliya. V. Global warming and its impact: 30. Relevance of Gandhian ideas to global warming/Sakuntala Narasimhan. 31. Combating global warming/Ashwini Kumar Lal. 32. Combating desertification/Srikanta K. Panigrahi. 33. Global warming/Arvid Singh. 34. G-8 summit: Global warming/Purnima M. Gupta. 35. Global warming and its impact on agriculture/B.L. Gaur. 36. Global warming under the agricultural scenario/S.C. Mahapatra. VI. Impact of climate changes: 37. Climate change: A bird's eye view of the impact on agriculture/K.R.S. Nair. 38. Climate change: Multilateral negotiations/Shyam Saran. 39. Climate change: The challenge/Nitin Desai. 40. Climate change: WTO accord/P.K. Vasudeva. 41. Climate change: Repositioning Indian industries/Amrita Ganguly and Ajeya Bandyopadhyay. 42. Impact of climate change on agriculture/A. Arivudai Nambi. 43. Climate change: Impact on water/B.S. Bhavanishankar. 44. Climate change: Carbon trading/Kuntal Kanti Chattorja and Anindya Bhukta. 45. E-Waste: The digital detritus/Vinod Kotwal. Index.
"The changing climate and its impact on the environment is a glob al phenomenon. Each country-in fact each region within a country -- will feel the impact differently and require area-specific remedial action. The only commonality is that no region will be spared the direct impact of climate change. India, with its diverse environmental regimes and geographical features will find it especially difficult to ensure that the right measures are utilized at the right time to counteract the impending threat.
This book presents the expert advice of over 40 renowned Indian environmentalists and scientists concerned with how climate change is affecting the various regions of India, the degree of the threat and how it can be alleviated if not eliminated. The collection covers a very wide gamut and covers almost every imminent risk the country faces.
The book is suitable for teachers, students and researchers in environment science as well as professional environmentalist and activists. The general reader too will be able to get an extensive and overall view of the global environmental crisis we face today." (jacket)
