Textbook of Environmental Studies

This book has been written to serve as an informative guide on the curriculum, principles practices that comprise environmental studies. Ecology forms the most important component of the science of environmental study, and hence, is of the utmost utility to subject. The principles of ecology, which is the scientific study of the interrelationships of plants, animals, and the environment, are useful in many aspects of the related fields of conservation, wildlife management forestry, and agriculture and pollution control. All these points render ecology indispensable to environmental study, and hence, its principles and foundations have been thoroughly explored. Natural history, physiology, oceanography and evolution also have proved to be of immense use in this field, and have also been covered, wherever they pertain to its study. Moreover, the pressing crises of the world today which include global warming, resource depletion environmental degradation, etc., find a compendious coverage within this book, without which it would have been incomplete. The numerous sub branches and inter-disciplines with their specific fields of study in the environment have been briefly highlighted upon, with illustrations fostering better understanding and grasp over the subject material. To conclude, this book, with its comprehensive exploration of environmental science, should prove to be a resourceful guide into the subject.