The Energy and Resources Institute
41 books
Climate change is one of the greatest challenges of the 21st century. Climate is changing across our planet, largely, as a result of human activities. The indicators of climate change include physical responses such as changes in the surface temperature, atmospheric water vapour, severe climatic events, melting of glaciers, and a rise in sea level.
Mountain ecosystems being exceptionally fragile are prone to both natural and anthropogenic drivers of change, which ...
Sustainability of environment is an emerging global issue at present. Unsustainable or deteriorating environment is a matter of concern as it has threatened the survival of living creatures. Recently, climate change has been matter of great concern at a global platform owing to imbalances in natural environment. Increasing population has increased the demand for energy, which has ultimately put pressure on natural resources and caused a paradigm shift from ...
Handbook on Forest Certification, a thorough research work, discusses in detail the concepts and approaches required to meet the desired international standards of forest certification. It covers those aspects of forest certification that are practised globally and need to be applied in the emerging context of forests in India. The book focuses on changing global perspective on forest resources, importance and need for sustainable management of forests, ...
Golden Greens: The Amazing World of Plants is a definitive introduction to everything you want to know about plants the world over. It meticulously describes the forms, habits and different facets and peculiarities of plants. Informative, thought-provoking and painstakingly researched, the book includes a number of case studies of rare and endangered plants species and emphasizes upon the importance of their conservation.
The trees and plants have long been part ...
Given that South Asia is fast becoming a water-stressed region and that population and economic growth make the situation more challenging, an integrated management of water resources becomes even more crucial. Hydro-politics in GBM Basin: the case of Bangladesh–India water relations focuses on the water management issues between Bangladesh and India.
The book examines the issues carefully and attempts to suggest a path to deal with the challenges based on ...
Carbon capture and storage (CCs) is among the advanced energy technologies suggested to make the conventional fossil fuel sources environmentally sustainable. It is of particular importantance to coalbased economies.
Carbon Capture, Storage, and Utilization deals at length with the various aspects of carbon dioxide capture, its utilization and takes a closer look at the earth processes in carbon dioxide storage. It discusses potential of carbon capture, storage, ...
The imperative for responsible innovation in the nanotechnology domain has inspired and provoked assorted views on its trajectory, potential implications as well as appropriate pathways for its development across a spectrum of stakeholders. These debates assume greater significance in the context of developing nations since harnessing the inherent potential of this transformational technology presumes the establishment of simultaneous capabilities to ...
India's wildlife is facing innumerable theats. The last surviving population of the Asiatic lion-an animal once widespread in the country- is concentrated today in a small pocket in Gujarat. The unfortunate Indian bulforg finds itself on the menu card in many restaueants in Goa; while the Himalayan monal - the state bird of Uttarakhand-has been hunted for its colourful crest. This book features some of the known, and a few less-familiar, mammals, birds, insects, ...
Rapid progress has been made in the discipline of biochemical engineering and biotechnology for bioprocess development during the last 50 years. Process Biotechnology: theory and practice has been written with the consideration that tutorial practice is as important as understanding the subject theoretically. This book is an introductory tutorial book involving multidisciplinary principles. Principal innovations that have been made in biosystem-related ...
The volume comes in an effort to provide a comprehensive work on biodiversity, conservation and development and regulation-related issues with respect to forests of India. It provides an overview of climate change and its impact on forestry, delving into the effects on emission of greenhouse gases. It gives an in-depth account of economics, development, marketing and financial aspects related to projects in the forestry sector, classifying forestry projects and ...
This book undertakes a study of concepts and approaches needed to meet the international standards of forest certification. It takes up important issues related to forest certification in the context of forests in India today. It examines economic factors, greening of certification processes and the interface between technical and business knowledge. Drawing on studies across the world, it deals with forest certification and its effects on biodiversity ...
The volume examines the planning framework in the Indian context and takes up sustainable urban planning in India—the need for it and concerns relating to it. It focuses on the dynamics of sustainable planning in the country. It integrates the concepts of liability and affordability, compares inequality and sustainability in the Indian planning context and discusses the impact of affordability thresholds in urban and regional planning and applicability of ...