Environment is the most discussed topic in the world today because of two reasons. First is the environmental degradation that has threatened the survival of all life forms on the surface of the earth. Second is the environmental management, which includes successful utilization of the environmental resources and solution of the environmental problems. These points are the focus of the present book. It deals with the state of environment (particularly the geoenvironment), degradation of environment (land, water and forest), and environmental management in Northeastern part of India. Though Northeast India can boost to still having some pristine environment, but that very environment is subjected to degradation due to plundering attitude of man, and that is a point of great concern today. That is why scientists from different branches of knowledge have contributed to make this volume a multidisciplinary one where results are integrated to understand the complexities of environmental systems in a better way so that it can be managed successfully for ever. The book will be of interest for the geoenvironmentalists, social scientists, planners and technocrats.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Zahid Husain
Zahid Husain Qureshi (b. 1952), M.A. Ph.D. Geography (Udaipur). After working in a UNESCO project during 1975 he joined the Geomorphology Section, Central Arid Zone Research Institute (ICAR), Jodhpur as a Research Scholar in 1976. In the CAZRI he received further training in Geomorphology and Remote Sensing while doing research on decertification and prior/buried courses of the Saraswati River in the Thar Desert. Then he was involved for one year (1978-79) in doing research along with a team on palaeo-environment and archaeology of the Thar Desert while working in a UGC project as a Post-Doctoral Fellow of the Poona University at Deccan College, Pune. From October 1979 to March 1997 he carried out research on human ecology of the Northeast India as a Research Associate (Ecology), Anthropological Survey of India, Shillong. Since April 1997 he has been engaged in teaching and research in physical geography as a Reader at North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong. He specializes in geomorphology, environment, ecology and remote sensing. He is Life Member of a few academic societies and also associated with editing of some journals. Till now he was involved in completion of about 10 major research projects/topics, either jointly or individually, and has been able to publish 33 articles/papers in local, regional, national and international journals and books. He has edited a book – Environmental Degradation and Conservation in North East India (1996), and written a book on Geoecology of Kameng Himalaya (2002) to mark the occasion of UN ‘International Year of Mountains 2002’.
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