Environmental Protection and Development : Emerging Issues, Reforms and Strategies

Contents: Preface. I. Economic reforms, development and environment protection: 1. Impact of economic reforms on environment protection/M. Kamal Naidu. 2. Economic reforms and environment/O.P. Shukla. 3. Environmental protection/Sawalia Bihari Verma and Shiva Kumar Singh. 4. Environmental challenges and sustainable future/Gopal Bhargava. 5. Protection of environment and promotion of development/T.V. Murali Vallabhan. 6. Environmental issues in developed and developing economics/K.A. Rasure. 7. WTO: challenges and dilemmas of environmental protection/A. Talapatra. 8. Environment, development and occupational problems/H. Mahadevan. II. Government intervention, cooperatives and NGOs: 9. Environmental pollution and governmental intervention/Hadi Ghaffari. 10. Environment protection through NGOs and local community/I. Sundar. 11. Environment protection and the tenth plan/Srikanta K. Panigrahi. 12. Role of cooperatives in environment protection/U.M. Shah. III. Population growth and women's participation: 13. World population growth and environmental problems/P.V. Nishanth and Anindita Mitra. 14. Population explosion and its effect on environment/C.R. Dutta. 15. Women as agents in the environment conservation/Paramita Majumdar. 16. Women and ecological development: meeting the challenge/Alka Srivastava. 17. Women's participation in improvement of environment and urban utilities in slums/Sabir Ali. 18. Environmental impact on child personality development/Sujay Mitra. 19. Woman and health: role of internal environment/K. Vijanthimala. 20. Women, environment and sustainable rural development/Jagannath Pati. 21. Environment-biodiversity-women/K. Vijayanti Mala. IV. Industrialisation and urbanisation: 22. Environment vis-a-vis urbanization/M.M. Saxena. 23. Environment vis-a-vis industrialisation/M.M. Saxena. 24. Compressed Natural Gas (CNG)--an overview/K. Sundari. 25. Urban air pollution/S.B. Verma. 26. Environmental friendly biodegradable lubricants/Joseph Toscano. 27. Industrial pollution--perspectives/Sazzala Jeevananda Reddy. 28. Urban environment water supply and sanitation/R. Elango and S. Ramachandran. V. Agriculture, drought and environment: 29. Impact of aquaculture on environment/C.P. Reddy and D.R. Mohanty. 30. Pollution and its mitigation through plants/Kamla Kulshreshtha and A.K. Goel. 31. Environmental cost of modern intensive agriculture/Shivadhar Singh. 32. Organophosphate pesticide and their environmental impact/Gayatri Verma and K.K. Singh. 33. Globalization and its impact on agriculture--an environmentalist's view/Sazzala Jeevananda Reddy. 34. Occupational health problems of agricultural workers/K. Kathirvel, R. Manian and T. Senthil Kumar. 35. Effect of pollution on fish/Amita Saxena. 36. Water, fish and man/Ashutosh Mishra and Abhed Pandey. 37. Drought and environment/S. Jeevananda Reddey. VI. Environmental degradation and protection: 38. Lidar remote sensing and environment/S.P.S. Kushwaha and M.D. Behera. 39. Pollution space/Srikanta K. Panigrahi. 40. Environmental holocaust in Himalayan ecosystem and protection/R.D. Gupta and M.R. Khajuria. 41. Environmental degradation and its protection/I. Sundar. 42. Energy auditing tool for cost minimization/Munish M. Malewar. 43. Measuring economic cost of environmental degradation in India/O.P. Shukla. 44. Degenerating sustainability/Anil P. Joshi. 45. Implementation of responsible care in India/S.K. Hazra. 46. Sewage stabilization ponds/M. Shanthala and B.B. Hosetti. 47. Save the soil, save the nation/R.D. Gupta. Bibliography. Index.

"Environment is meant to serve and support human society, by providing raw materials and inputs. Unbalanced approaches of the development, negligence of environment and natural resources have distorted the picture of production as pollution. The development strategy has to reckon the inextricable link between the poverty reduction and the environmental aspects. The tenth plan, therefore, marks a paradigm shift as it visualizes that economic growth alone is not the objective of national planning.

All aspects underscore the increasing thrust for linking the environmental concerns with the developmental strategy to attain three key objectives, namely: (a) Enhance people's livelihood, (b) Reduce people's volunerability, and (c) Improve people's health and living environ." (jacket)