S.N. Mishra
33 books
Greatmen like Karl Marx, Lenin, Gandhi Mao and Ho Chi Minh have all necessarily been epoch-making luminaries, but so far as the case of Dr. Ambedkar's relentless struggles against the callous injustices done to the depressed, low caste people is concerned, he naturally emerged as an apostle figure. He was one of those great men, who from the cradle to the greave, had spent their life in fermenting state of insult, anguish and oppression. Dr. Ambedkar was a ...
The basic objective of our development planning has been growth with social justice. Accordingly, the government has set itself to the goal of reduction in the incidence of poverty and its ultimate eradication within a time-frame. Since the policy did not achieve its goal of eradication of poverty, the new strategy, which sought to directly attack poverty by means of specific programmes meant for certain sections of the society has since been described as the ...
This four-volume study is the outcome of a project undertaken by the ICSSR under the overall leadership of (Late) Prof. S.C. Dube. The study examined the implications of alternative strategies of tribal development so that an informed public opinion could be created to provide necessary inputs into decision making at various levels. The major research areas that have been addressed by the study are : paradigm of tribal development, system of tribal ...
Decentralisation of planning process of late has become a matter of worldwide concern. Decentralisation through involvement of local level representative institutions in the formulation of plans for development as well as their implementation is advocated in interest of efficient utilization of resources and for ensuring more equitable sharing of benefits from development. Accordingly decentralized planning is not a new concept for India. Though introduced in ...
With continued economic growth, Population increase, urbanization and technical development, more and more waste materials were discharged into natural sources of water, like rivers, lakes, ocean, etc. During the decade extensive efforts were made in the developed countries to assert this pollutions by treating the growing volume of waste discharge. Rivers have always been the dumping ground for man’s unwanted waste material. It is astonishing how much waste ...
Decentralization is an ideological principle associated with objectives of self-reliance, democratic decision making, popular participation in development and accountability of public officials to citizens. Thus decentralization is a political decision, and its implementation is a reflection of a country’s political process. Development is the exploitation and management of the resources of nature in such a way that they are put under the control of man and are ...
The present book basically impact practical information on environmental air and water pollution analysis. One of its objects is to escape from academic of polemical theorizing and to develop an understanding of the processes of pollution situation from the core of pure science, through practical steps in assessment to the valid appraisal of overall effects. The volume will prove of immense use and informative to a wide range of readers, directly or indirectly ...
Governance now not only occupies centrestage in development discourse but is also considered as the crucial element to be incorporated in development strategy. Apart from the universal acceptance of its importance, differences, however, prevail in respect of theoretical formulations, policy prescriptions and conceptualisation of the subject itself. Moreover, conceptualization is the basis of theoretical formulation and influences policy making in a significant ...
In order to understand man’s social relationship with his environment, it is necessary to review his more recent evolution briefly. During the past two and a half decades a wave of the environmental consciousness and concern is being discussed and developed in India and other countries. This book is an effort to keep pace with the continuing rapid developments in all areas of environmental pollutions. Specially the types of environmental pollutions such as air ...
“An Introduction to man and his environmentâ€, as the title sounds itself, the present volume describes man and his environment and various kinds of pollutions which he comes across in the surrounding. Man’s brain has developed to an incredible extent over the past several thousand years. This has allowed him to become more independent of animal instincts and more capable of exploratory and creative actions, but at the same time it has increased his powers ...
This book is an attempt to keep pace with continuing rapid developments in sampling and analytical techniques which are used for a wide array of chemical and Fossil Fuel environments together. The main aim of this book is to provide a useful manual for all environmentalists including students, engineers and agricultural scientists who are engaged actively in the field of environmental analytical investigations including those who are mainly concerned with ...
Environmental polices are no longer focusing simply on the control of pollution and the abatement of nuisances but indeed on more positive actions directed at the improvement of the quality of life that depends on the health and viability of the natural and man-made environments. Public participation in environmental affairs increased during the last two decades. Some of this interest was spurred by the efforts of the media to cover the field. But media coverage ...
This book presents the first comprehensive study of the national and global environmental effects of India's livestock production system. The first few chapters provide a descriptive account of India's livestock biodiversity as determined by environmental conditions, modes of livestock farming, chief features of mixed livestock farming integrated with agriculture, and its direct and indirect linkages with environment. The authors have also formulated an ...
The International Oceanographic Commission defines marine pollution as: “Introduction by man, directly or indirectly, of substances into the marine environment resulting in such deleterious effects as harm to living resources, hazards to human health, or hindrance of marine activities and reduction of amenities.†The productivity of the marine environment and its capacity to receive and disperse pollutants depend on its physical and chemical properties. The ...
Concern over the impact on human health of chemicals in the environment has increased in recent years. Human health and quality of life are strongly influenced by the environment Both environmental and genetic factors, however, are involved in the production of disease. Human beings, at the apex, while representing the finest product of evolution are in no way different from or more important than any other species. In fact, each species has a role and importance ...
Environmental education is an approach to learning, not a subject of study. It endeavours to create a way of thinking requiring people to overcome prejudices as a result of the differing views of fields such as biology, chemistry, economics, social sciences and politics. It leads to the opening of the mind to ever new aspects of the universe. Environmental education thus is a new kind of integrative teaching characterised by encouraging inclusive thinking by a ...
The ‘Social and Economic Impact of Environmental Policies’ is an effort to keep pace with continuing rapid developments in the field of environment as well as with the sampling and analytical techniques which are used for a wide array of social and economic parameters of various environmental policies together. The aim of this book is to provide a useful manual for all environmentalists including environmental students, health planners and agriculture ...
Many people spend large parts of each day indoor-in many cases, 80-90 percent-in a house, an automobile, a waiting room, an office of other workplace, or a confined space accessible to the general public, such as a store or a restaurant. It has shown that indoor exposure to environmental pollutants can be substantial. In the past few decades in the developing countries there have been continuing conflicts, assumed and real, between ecology and development though ...
Many people spend a substantial part of each day indoors-in many cases, 80 to 90 percent-in a house, an automobile, a waiting room, an office or other workplace, or a confined space accessible to the general public, such as a store or a restaurant. It has been shown that indoor exposure to environmental pollutants cab be substantial. Although there is little epidemiologic evidence on the health effects of indoor pollutants, indoor concentration of some pollutants ...
More than 450 million people were found chronically hungry and malnourished during the last decade. Although total food production increased nearly everywhere, it failed to match population growth in many parts of Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Only a small part of the productivity of natural terrestrial ecosystems it Used by man. The development of agriculture and industry has altered the structure and composition of selected systems so as to increase their ...
Governance as a concept remains underdeveloped and therefore remains exposed to a variety of interpretations. However, for the purpose of present book, a simplistic meaning of Governance has been taken which concerns with the problem of management of the affairs of the state. When one talks about governance he has to have in mind—political institutions within which management is exercised with the focus on how the democratic institutions function, the authority ...
Environmental Water resources quality, demand, pollution presents scientific discussion of water quality, demand and pollution, its adverse effects on man on environment and the various methods of its control. The basic aim of the book is to present authentic information on many of the necessary fundamentals needed for the analysis of water resources. Pure water in a scientific sense, is not found in nature. Even the most dilute fresh water contain dissolved ...