Environmental Concerns
Contents: 1. Global Warming and its Mitigation Strategies. 2. Some Environmental Issues: Global Warming and Agrarian Crisis. 3. Climate Change and Agriculture in Orissa. 4. Climate Change and Groundwater Sustainability: A Scientific Critique. 5. Understanding the Facets of Sustainable Development - An Exploration. 6. Role of Environment Degradation on Conservation of Plant and Pollinator Resources. 7. Atmospheric Pollution and its Consequences on Agriculture. 8. Radiation Stress in Crop Plants. 9 Biodiversity vis-a-vis Environment .10. Natural Resource Management -An Emerging Domain in Sustainable Development. 11. Bio-Diversity: The Inconvenient Truth. 12. Stress Ecology and Nano Particles. 13. Toxicology: Some Fundamental Aspect.s .14. Integrated Pest Management: Panacea to Contain Pesticide Abuse. 15. Impact of Fungicides on Environment: An Overview. 16. Application of Fuzzy Logic for Pest Management in Agriculture. 17. Food Safety in India: Challenges and Opportunities. 18. Energy, Food and Environment: The Biomass Impact. 19. A Success Story: Watershed Development in Jalukie Region of Nagaland . 20. Impact of Mayurakshi Canal Irrigation on Changing Geo-Economic Environment of its Command Area. 21. Changing Land Use Pattern and its Impact on Wetland Environment System: A Justification Study on Kandi Block of Murshidabad District, West Bengal. 22. Mining and Quarrying Related Development Activities and Environmental Sustainability in Muhammadbazar Birbhum District, West Bengal: Queries Over Quarries. 23. Transgenic Plants: Prospects and Controversies. 24. Minimizing Environmental Pollution. 25. Some Useful Methods for the Assessment of Environmental Health of an Aquatic System. 26. Ganga River Water Pollution Challenges Ahead. 27. The Electric Highway Indias Future for Green Transportation. 28. Property Rights of Environmental Resources: Revisited Concepts and Thoughts. 29. Extension for Environmentally Sound Agriculture: Basic Theories and Agenda for Action. 30. Kick the Carbon Dioxide Habit. 31. Environmental Audit. 32 Environmental Laws in India: A Review Subject index.
Environment has become the central point of global concern. The quality of environment is affected by production and consumption activities of people. Societys welfare with its economic activities is also governed by environment. Here, the convergence between ecology, ethics economics and other allied sciences obviously encompassing issues of environment has become the centre of our concerns. In such context this book on "ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS" concentrates. This volume contains the issues like global warming and climate , degradation of natural resource base, biodiversity phenomena, food security, watershed management, mining action, energy use efficiency, environmental audit, environmental laws and overall ethics in environmental.