The book spells out the implicit linkage between environment and environment practices. It discusses the decision making process, coordinating bodies, legislations, policy initiatives, programmes/projects/schemes, international cooperation, status, challenges, capacity building, education, training and awareness raising, environmental education, and awareness generation, research-development technologies, source of finance. The book covers commerce, trade, cooperation, environment, agriculture, bio-technology, industry, transport, railways, roads, national highways, civil aviation, energy, tourism, atmosphere, environment and forest, bio-diversity, besides this, the book includes social aspects of sustainable development such as poverty, demographics, health, education, human settlement, children youth, non-governmental organizations, local authorities, workers and trade unions, business and industry, scientific and technical community, information and international law. This book is simply an information about our functioning towards goal of sustainable development. In the next volume of this book, the author may suggest the ways to strengthen the practices of sustainable development in India.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR A.K. Shrivastava
Prof. A.K. Shrivastava is chairman of the Council for Training and Research in Ecology and Environment, New Delhi. The CTREE, founded by Prof. Shrivastava, Structured “Environment Auditing / Environment Impact Assessment in a course frame, for the first time in India. The course was inaugurated in the year ’98 by the then Minister of Environment & Forests, Government of India Sri Suresh Prabhu. Under the academic guidance of Prof. Shrivastava, more than one hundred and sixty participants were imparted short term training programme in the stream of Environment Auditing and Environment Impact Assessment, among those corporate executives, environmental Scientists and engineers, corporate bodies, senior forest officers and agriculturists can be underlined. Besides the training programme, he is currently providing expert consultancy to the government departments, corporate bodies and NGO’s in the matters of ecology and environment. As chief executive of the CTREE, Prof. Shrivastava has also worked as consultant / monitor / project evaluator with the Ministry of Environment and Forests / Ministry of Rural development, Govt. of India / Corporate bodies / and NGO’s as well. He has participated in various national and international seminars and conferences and addressed on the topic of management, eco-consumerism, environment and sustainability. He is author of several books on environment and management. He is found chief of National Council for Registration of Environmental Auditors (NCREA, India); Institute of Environmental Auditors & Impact Assessors, (IEAIA), India).
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