Environmental science aims at understanding environmental problems confronting our planet and learning how to manage, if not solve, them. Global warming, diminishing biodiversity, shortages in freshwater, long range transport of air pollutants and accumulation of persistent organic compounds in food webs are some of the serious problems threatening environment and living organisms. How to manage them or mitigate their effects is the role that environment science plays. "Recent Advances in Environmental Science" presents basic concepts, aspects and facts concerning ecosystem, climate change, effective environment management, effect of environment changes on climate, food web chain and biological resources. The book also describes latest discoveries in environmental science. The book integrates information from many different areas in a way that is accessible and useful to students, teachers, researchers, environmentalists and general readers.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Archana Ruhela
Archana Ruhela is an Emeritus Professor at the University of Punjab where she taught for 36 years in the Departments of Botany and Genetics and Cell Biology as well as the Conservation Biology Programme at the Institute for Social, Economic, and Ecological Sustainability, the Centre for Environmental Learning and Leadership, and the McArthur Programme in Global Change. She received her masters degree in botany and her Ph.D. in Zoology from the University of Texas. At various times, she was a visiting scholar in Sweden, Indonesia, and China, as well as several universities and research institutions in the United States.Her research interests varied from isolation and characterisation of cell organelles (especially Mitochondria and the Golgi apparatus), the effects of air pollution on plant tissues, and land use planning and environmental policy. She has published approximately 60 scientific articles in different magazines and scientific journals. She has also authored books on Environmental Science, A Global Concern and Principles of Environmental Science, and also served as managing editor for the Environmental Encyclopaedia.
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