The excessive growth of human population, increasing from about 1 billion in the year 1800 to about 6.7 billion at the start of the year 2008, has resulted in enormous urbanisation and expansion of agricultural, industrial, and commercial activities on our fragile planet- Earth. The large scale use of fossil fuels (coal, oil and gas) in industries as well as in automobiles have accelerated and resulted in wide spread pollution of our environment, at local, regional, as well as global levels. Not only our physical environment consisting of air, water, and land, have been polluted, but even the biological bodies such as plants and animals, providing food to humans, have been contaminated.
This book Useful for Environmental Science Students.
Chapter 1. Introduction to the Subject of Environmental Studies
Chapter 2. Study of Ecology and Ecosystems to Understand Man and His Environment
Chapter 3. Environmental Imbalances Caused by Natural Hazardous and Disastrous Events
Chapter 4. Environmental Imbalances Caused by Human Activities and the Need for Sustainable Development
Chapter 5. Natural Resources and their Sustainable Development and Utilization
Chapter 6. Development of Energy from Various Sources and Their Environmental Impacts
Chapter 7. Biodiversity and Its Conservationa
Chapter 8. Environmental Pollution Including Its Regional and Gloabl Impacts
Chapter 9. Water Pollution—Causes, Effects and Control Strategies
Chapter 10. Air Pollution, Its Causes, Effects and Control Measures
Chapter 11. Noise Pollution
Chapter 12. Soil Pollution
Chapter 13. Disposal and Management of Solid Wastes
Chapter 14. Disposal of Hazardous Biomedical (Solid and Liquid) Wastes
Chapter 15. Nuclear Hazard and Radioactive Pollution
Chapter 16. Marine Pollution—A Complex and Global Problem
Chapter 17. The India’s Environment (Protection) Act, 1986
Chaper 18. Disaster Management
Chapter 19. Environment and Human Population
Chapter 20. Environmental Management and ISO Certification for Eco-friendly Products
Chapter 21. Chapterwise Multichoice Objective Questions
Appendices
Index
