Environmental Resource Management : Critical Issues

Contents: Preface. 1. Content and meaning of environmental management in India/I. Sundar, Sivakumar, P.K. Roy and A. Kumar. 2. Waterlogged area as new horizon for aquaculture development: golden dream to the rural communities of Bangladesh/M. Shahadat Hossain and Nani Gopal Das. 3. Reconnissance of wildlife status and conservation attempts in Kashmir Valley, India/M.A.Khan. 4. Integrated groundwater prospects analysis using remote sensing and GIS techniques/S.S. Asadi, Padmaja Vuppala, P. Srilatha and M. Anji Reddy. 5. Antimicrobial properties of selected coastal plants and marine algae from East coast of Tamil Nadu/C. Rathika, S.M. Fazeela Mahaboob Begum and K. Balakrishnan. 6. Correlation coefficient (r) value between LCC Vs SPAD as Influenced by Hybrids and Nitrogen management practices/S. Ramesh, S. Ravi and B. Chandrasekaran. 7. A Review of biofertilizers and biocides: a best alternative of chemical fertilizers and pesticides/Deepali and Kamal K. Gangwar. 8. Effect of enriched Municipal solid waste compos application on soil available micronutrients/R. Kavitha and P. Subramanian. 9. Ecological enumeration of tree vegetation in and around Hirakud township and strategy for future plantation programme/P.C. Mishra, S.P. Mishra, A.S.P. Mishra and Niranjan Behera. 10. Studies on the liver of Rohu in relation to environmental stress from the lakes of Bangalore, Karnataka/S.G. Raghu Prasad and Bela Zutshi. 11. Impact of some medicinal plants on the growth of Trichosporon Begeilii/S. Goswami, J. Das and R.B. Srivastava. 12. Nicotine, Saponin and pourine from Therapeutic Melothria purpusilla (blume) Cogn.: a well known home remedy herbal for humankind/S.R. Singh and M. Neshwari Devi. 13. Effects of biomass on environmental air pollution/M. Venkateshwarlu, D. Srinivas and B. Mallaiah. 14. Studies on pollen behaviour at different levels of Mulberry plants/M. Venkateshwarlu, A. Komuraiah, D. Srinivas, K. Sujatha and Ch. Sammaiah. 15. Studies on the primary productivity in two Perennial tanks from Kolhapur district (Maharashtra) India/Milind S. Hujare and M.B. Mule. 16. Devolatilization characteristics of poultry  litter using thermogravimetric analysis/V. Kirubakaran, V. Sivaramakrishnan, M. Premalatha and P. Subramanain. 17. Study of groundwater in Ludhiana district/Ritesh Jain, Jaspal Singh and S.K. Singh. 18. Effect of pesticides and FYM on microbial activity and CO2 evolution in Acid Alfisol of Ranchi/D.K. Shahi, Kumari Nisha and P.K. Singh. 19. Rural urban interface in relation to industrial development and environment security/V.K. Sharma and Shiv Singh. 20. Evaluation of new insecticides against sorghum shoot fly, atherigona soccata Rondani/S.T. Aghav, A.D. Jagdhani, M.A. Sushir, H.S. Baheti and S.D. Rajput. 21. A case study of lake Jaisamand with special reference to algal flora, India/Premlata Vikal and Sandhya Tyagi. 22. Limnobiotic study of Kanhan river at Mouda, near Nagpur (Maharashtra)/R.R. Khapekar, P.R. Chaudhari and S.R. Wate. 23. Densities and excess volume of binary liqiuid systems of PEG 200 and PEG 400 with isobutanol and Iso-Amyl Alcohol at 303K, 308 K and 318 K/D.N. Vora and F.J. Jani. 24. Diversity and composition of insecta in rice agroecosystem in Barak Valley of Assam (N.E. India)/D.C. Ray and Partha P. Bhattacharjee. 25. Use of biogas slurry as a fish pond manure/Sarbjit Singh Sooch, Asha Dhawan and Davinder Pal Singh. 26. Soil and groundwater pollution by agrochemicals: a review/D.S. Kler, Navneet Kaur and R.S. Uppal. 27. Sustainability through environmental conservation on agricultural land resources/S.R. Singh and Th. Manimala Devi. 28. Antibacterial activity of plant extracts on different human pathogens/Mamta Rawat. 29. Recovery of membrane bound enzymes in soleus and EDL muscles of palm squirrel after experimentally induced sciatic neuropathy/K. Pratap Reddy and K. Praveen Kumar. 30. Preliminary screening of endophytic fungi from medicinal plants in India for antimicrobial and antitumor activity/M. Rajasekar Pandian, G. Sharmila Banu and G. Kumar. 31. Changes in GPC level of human seminal plasma in Alcoholic drug abuses and smokers/M. Singh, P. Parashar, K.N. Mishra, P.K. Sinha, A.K. Dubey and G.N. Trivedi. 32. A preliminary review of pseudosecodes Girault (hymenoptera: chalcidoidea: eulophidae)/T.C. Narendran, M. Sheeba, S. Santhosh, M.C. Jiley and Abhilash Peter. 33. Medicinally important orchids of North-East India/C.M. Sarma, R.K. Bora and N. Basumatary. 34. Herbal medicine in India with special emphasis on commonly used herbs/M. Rajasekara Pandian, G. Sharmiia Banu and G. Kumar. 35. Combined effect of environmental factors and nutritional status on the weight of testis and testicular total protein in Albino-rats/S.B. Gupta, P. Parashar, A.K. Dubey, K.N. Mishra, P.KJ. Sinha and G.N. Trivedi. 36. Varietal screening of catharanthus roseus (L.) G. Don for root Alkaloid Ajmalicine content/C. Abdul Jaleel, R. Gopi, R. Somasundarma, R. Sridharan, B. Sankar and R. Panneerselvam. 37. Puberty delay effects of grouped female urine in female lesser Bandicoot rat Bandicota bengalensis (gray and hardwicke)/Gurpreet Kaur and V.R. Parshad. 38. Trophic status and fishery potentials of Irumbi river, Manipur/Laishram Kosygin, Haobijam Dhamendra and Nongthombam Premananda. 39. Growth and characterization of rare earth metal ion (La3+, Pr3+, Sm3+) doped potassium acid phthalate single crystals/K. Uthayarani, R. Sankar, C.K. Shashidharan Nair. 40. Metal Induced augmentation, stabilization and transistion of a thermophillic xylose isomerase activity in opuntia vulgaris/S. Ravikumar, S. Shyamala and K. Srikumar. 41. Effect of weed control treatments on dry matter production and crop growth rate in direct sown wet seeded rice/B. Rajanedra Kumar and A. Christophrer Lourduraj. 42. Evaluation of the efficacy of Garlic bulb extract and selected animal excrements on the Mycelial growth, sporulation and conidial germination of helminthosporium oryzae (breda de haan) subram and Jain (in vitro)/M. Thamarai Selvi, P. Balabaskar and V. Kurucheve. 43. Manifestation of physiological and biochemical variations in rice cultivars under effluent irrigation during early emergence/G. Panduranga Murthy, G, Chidananda Murthy and Shivalingaiah. 44. Hypoglycaemic effect of Trichosanthes diocia roxb. in normal and streptozotocin induced diabetic rats/G. Sharmila Banu, M. Rajasekara Pandian and G. Kumar. 45. Yield, quality and nutrient uptake of soybean (Glycine max L.) as influenced by different planting methods and irrigation schedules/S.S. Mahal, C.S. Maan, A.S. Brar and A.K. Atwal. 46. Molecular Characterization of Isabgol (platnago ovata forsk) by RAPD markers/Ramesh Solanki and Harshal E. Patil. 47. Studies on the impact of rubber plantations (Hevea brasiliensis muellarg.) on the soil quality and its role in the rehabilitaton of degraded lands in North-East India/Samiran Roy and B.K. Dutta. 48. Effect of weed control treatments on crop stand and phytotoxicity rating in direct sown wet seeded rice/B. Rajendra Kumar and A. Christophrer Lourduraj. 49. Studies on the phytosociology of the macrophytes in the Oksoipat Lake, Bishnupur (Manipur)/S. Umeshwari Devi and B. Manihar Sharma. 50. Vermicompost: its proper and successful application in the cultivation of Aloe barbadensis/Jayanta Sinha, Chanchal Kr. Biswas, Arup Ghosh and Nazrul Haque. 51. Morphology and ecology of charophytes of two lakes in Jharkhand, India/Meena Krishnan and Gouri Suresh. 52. Water scarcity zones of Jamshedpur, Jharkhand/Gouri Suresh, Neena Sharma, G. Rajalakshmi and Rajni Kumari. 53. The allergenicity of pollen on environmental influences/M. Venkateshwarlu, Ch. Sridhar Rao and B. Digamber Rao. 54. Nutraceutical and antioxidant potentiality associated with fruit development and maturation in capsicum annum L. var. Jwalamukhi/V. Sumitha, S.R. Harish, Viann Maria and K. Murogan. 55. Parametric variations due to metallic contaminations in SF6/N2 Gas insulated bus duct/Poonam Upadhyay, J. Amernath, B.P. Singh and Pravin Upadhyay. 56. A Study on the effect of commando on the protein content of the freshwater fish Labeo rohita/N. Saradhamani, R. Saraswathi and B. Dhanalakshmi. 57. Experimental study on waste heat recovery for sustainable industrial systems/V. Sivaramakrishnan, V. Kirubakaran, M. Premalatha and P. Subramanian. 58. Screening of antimutagenic effects of green and black tea (camellia sinensis) in reverse mutation assay/K.S. Santhy, S. Namitha, Sherly P. George and P. Arulraj. 59. Natural Radioactivity levels in sediments along the east coast of region of potronovo Pondicherry coast, east coast of Tamil Nadu, India/E. Manikandan, B. Rajamannan, R. Ravisankar, R. Sakthivel, M. Arumugam, V. Gajendiram and V. Meenakshisundaram. 60. Synthesis and characterisation of hydroxyalkylated dimerised cardanol-formaldehyde resins/A. Malar Retna, C.V. Mythili and S. Gopalakrishnan. 61. Moisture stress and stomatal frequency for preliminary screening of mulberry (Morus alba)/M. Venkateshwarlu, A. Komuraiah, K. Sujatha and Ch. Sammaiah. 62. Role of Mercury in the food chain of Uppanar estuary, Cuddalore, Southeast Coast of India/R. Rajaram, M. Srinivasan and P. Martin. 63. Effect of Trichosanthes dioica on blood glucose and plasma antioxidant status in streptozotocin diabetic rats/G. Sharmila Banu, M. Rajasekara Pandian and G. Kumar. 64. Investigation on sub-surface water quality of Tarikere Taluk with special reference to physico-chemical characteristics/K. Harish Babu and E.T. Puttaiah. 65. Infleucne of Pollutants of soil bacteria/D. Vijaya Lakshmi, C. Krishna Kanth and M.A. Singara Charya. 66. Ethnobotany and biodiversity conservation in the Niger Delta, Nigeria/Rufus M. Ubom. 67. Groundwater quality of Bhadravathi Town, Karnataka State/Vijaya Kumara, J. Narayana, K. Harish Babu, Devidas Kamath and E.T. Puttaiah. 68. Saccharification studies by a thermophilic fungus sporotrichum thermophile isloated from agriculture waste of Bhopal/Rajhans Singh, Namita Singh, Anil Prakash and Sarika Poonia. 69. Impact of open cast coal mining on soil environment and its management/Indu Gupta, R.S. Singh and A.C. Gorai. 70. Limnology of lentic freshwater systems in north Cachar hills, Assam, India/T.N. Majumdar, A. Gupta and M. Daolagupu. Index.   

"The vast natural resource is the basic need for human survival and conductive to making life comfortable for living beings on this watery planet. But ruthless exploitation of this natural resource which causes severe imbalance in the ecosystem has become the great critical environmental issue. A society which eats up all its resources for its development has no future. The critical issue of crisis of normal survival of biota bas arisen with man\'s unscientific exploitation of nature. Now-a-days, nature is not only destroyed but also steadily transformed into degenerated planet. Since the vast environmental resource is depleting fast, there is an urgent need to maintain healthy environment for healthier life. In the wake of environmental imbalances, short as well long term environmental management strategy should be formulated towards maintenance of ecology of planet.

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