Kashmir Ecology and Environment: New Concerns and Strategies

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This book represents the proceedings of a National Seminar held by Kashmir Education, Culture and Science Society on 8 November, 2003 on ecological and environmental issues of Kashmir. Environment protection and sustainable development are subjects of common concern world over. Kashmir’s environment forms part of the Himalayan mountain range. Kashmir has an important place in the ecological system concerning India with its forests, water resources, cultural sites and monuments. The participants in seminar included eminent scholars from Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi University, Kashmir University, Jamia Millia, Hamdard University, Indian Law Institute, Ministry of Environment and Forest as also officers from Jammu and Kashmir State Pollution Control Board. It was an interdisciplinary seminar of scientists, economists, lawyers, bureaucrats, and historians. The participants reflected on the current trends in national and global environment movement. The role of modern science for sustainable development has been highlighted. New science will help to make a prosperous Kashmir. People in Kashmir are looking forward to developing a beautiful valley and a creative scientific society. They want to promote harmony with nature, and a multi-cultural society as was the dream of poets of Kashmir, Mehjoor and Zinda Kaul, and saints and sages like Lal Ded and Nund Rishi. Kashmiris see a new hope of progress in the new environmental science. The book also has some analysis on the environmental issues of modern world. New science philosophy can be combined with eastern ideas as has been suggested by scientists like Prigogine, Hawking and Enstein. The environment movement therefore makes for a new dialogue with nature, a new unity of science, and world peace. The book should be of interest in India and abroad, to specialists in environmental sciences, as also to the general public. Hon’ble President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam has also in his new year message of 2004 inspired all creative people to make India a developed nation by the help of new sciences, and economics of sustainable development.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR S. Bhatt

Prof. S. Bhatt is an Honorary Professor of International Law in Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He has been a Professor in Hamdard University. He has research experience in the field of environmental law and science for over forty years as a post-doctoral research fulbright Resident Scholar in Southern Methodist University, Dallas, USA in 1969-70, Secretary, National Committee on Environmental Planning and Coordination, govt. of India, DST 1975, a Professor in JNU, and Convenor of three national seminars on environment and related issues. He has edited and authored 18 books, including six books in the field of environments, and published over 200 articles world over. At the international level, Prof. Bhatt has been United Nations Advisor on Aviation to Govts. Of Somalia, Lesotho and Botswana for over four years. He was a Panel-member of United Nations ICAO on regulation of world air transport a Commentator to United Nations Conference on Space Benefits UNISPACE III, Geneva, July 1999. He has traveled to many parts of world as member of air delegation, Govt. of India. He served in the Department of Civil Aviation and retired as Deputy Director General of Civil Aviation. He is an Honorary Fellow of International Astronautical Federation, Paris, Prof. Bhatt has served as Senior Vice-President of Kashmir Education, Culture and Science with other scholars in developing an international Centre for Kashmir Studies. He is also actively associated in the establishment of an International Centre for Air, Space and Environmental Law at National Law University, Hyderabad. In 2001 and 2003 Prof. Bhatt lectured in Kashmir University and its leading colleges on problems concerning environment protection and sustainable development. Kashmir environments held on 8 November, 2003. He comes from Bandipore, Kashmir, where he has his ancestral home.