Environmental Awareness and Education

Contents: 1. Global warming/Debabrata Das Gupta. 2. Historical review and emerging issues on environmental education/Navin Kumar. 3. Environmental awareness and education/Jayanta Datta. 4. Environmental awareness/Anil Kumar De. 5. Understanding environmental consequences and sustainability/Sisir K Mukhopadhyay. 6. Awareness-- a bid to avoid plastic peril/Surendra Nath Chatterjee. 7. Endangered plant species in India/Tarak Mohan Das. 8. Agricultural development, population growth and problem of environment in India/Dhirendra Nath Konar. 9. Man, development and environment: an exploration/Sibaji Chakraborti. 10. Environmental resources and their management/Debabrata Das Gupta. 11. Energy in rural environment/Siddhartha D. Mukhopadhyay. 12. Technology, agrotechnology and environment: historical, cultural and societal issues/Mrinial Kanti Das Gupta. 13. Sustainability of Indian agriculture/Madhu Sudan Ghosh. 14. Fertilizer dependent agriculture of Asian and Pacific  region: environmental issues/Debabrata Das Gupta. 15. Airborne pollen and spores as environmental bio-pollutants and its impact on human health/Sudhendu Mandal. 16. Environmental crisis and women\'s struggle/Sarthak Chowdhury. 17. Agriculture-industry-environment triangle/Anil Kumar De. 18. Indigenous knowledge --imperative for environmental sustainability/Debabrata Das Gupta and Anindita Saha. 19. Weather forecasting: an aid to environmental awareness/Debasis Bhattacharya. 20. Quantitative analysis for ecosystem management/Shyama Prasad Mukherjee. 21. Environmental impact assessment/Debabrata Das Gupta. 22. Decision theoretic approach to environmental impact analysis/Debasis Bhattacharya. 23. Towards managing environment: role of economic instruments/Sib Ranjan Misra and Joydev Misra. List of contributors.

"The question - "what is the moral significance of the very doing of science" brings many several closely related enquiries. The value embedded in any scientific method do not always implicitly embrace the significance of human relations to the natural world. Convergence between ecology, ethics, economics and other allied sciences (encom-passing issues of environment) is also recognized. Environment has become the central point of global concern the quality of environment is affected by production and consumption activities of people. Moreover, society\'s welfare with its economic activities is also governed by environment. In this context, \'Environmental Management\' covering the aspects of \'Environmental Awareness and Education\' concentrates.

This book, against the common feature of global atmosphere due to global warming, resource degradation, ozone depletion, GHG and diminishing biological diversity covers the significance of environmental awareness and education at every walks of life. This is obviously against the background of population pressure, overall growth in farming front endangering the essential aspects of sustainable development. Environmental sustainability issues, on a holistic way, has also been included through discussion on traditional knowledge system. Besides, quantitative dimensions like Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA), ecosystem management and environment management have also been dealt with." (jacket)