T I Khan
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Environment is today the concern of everyone. With the depletion of resources on the one hand, and extensive pollution of land, air and water on the other, the very existence of mankind on this planet is threatened. Global warming and the change in the pattern and timings of seasons have already begun wreaking havoc. The time has come to lay down an international policy to protect the environment, minimize pollution and also enact legislation that can be ...
This book contains articles contributed by various researchers, scientists and eminent persons. They relate to population and environment, tribal ecopolitics, rural energy development, biodiversity conservation, mining and environment, heavy metals in environment, Acid rain, environmental values, municipal solid waste management, natural resources, tourism and environment, environmental law, etc. This book will be useful for researchers, teachers, post-graduate ...
This book contains chapters contributed by Scientists working in England, UK, United States of America, Germany, Kuwait, India, Saudi Arabia, Philippines etc. pertaining to measures taken for Biodiversity conservation. Biodiversity is the variability among living organisms from all sources including terresterial, marine and other aquatic ecosystems and the ecological complexes of which they are part, this includes diversity within species, between species and of ...
The degradation and deterioration of the environment and the deleterious consequences it is having on mankind in general has become a subject of alarm and concern to environmentalists and scientists all over the world. The manner in which the planet is being depleted of its resources and the subsequent effect on climatic conditions leading to much misery and loss of lives, both human and animal, and lost of plant diversity, is engaging the attention of all those ...
Ozone forms a layer in the stratosphere that absorbs solar ultraviolet radiations. Increasing amounts of man-made chemicals are accelerating the speed at which ozone molecules are destroyed. These ozone-destroying chemicals mainly come from Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) used in a range of products from refrigerators and air-conditioners to soft foams and cleaning solvents; and from halons used for fire-fighting. Their quantities in the atmosphere have been rising ...
Living entities (Biodiversity) exhibit variation at a whole hierarchy of levels; of molecules, genes, cells, individuals, populations, communities, ecosystems, landscapes and biomes. Interest in biodiversity has recently gone up with the emergence of new possibilities of putting biodiversity to human use by applying techniques of molecular biology. Biodiversity, the library of life, is on fire. We must extinguish this fire before even more treasures, yet to be ...
This book would be immensely useful for teachers of environmental science, environmental engineering, personnel in charge to pollution control in imdusteries and Researcheres.