Environmental Change and its Impact

Contents Foreword. 1. Environment is/Pulak Lahiri. 2. Environmental crisis will lead to crisis in civilization a quest for solution/N.C. Dutta. 3. Ozone hole and our environment/S.K. Midya. 4. Global warming depletion of ozone layer and threat to life/S. Halder S. Chatterjee and A. Dev. 5. Air pollution/Saktiprosad Ghosh. 6. Threatening environmental pollution due to nitrite nitrate and NOx and their fluorimetric analysis/S. Biswas M. Khan B. Chowdhury and B.C. Ray. 7. Pulmonary and systemic effects of air pollution in urban and rural India/T. Lahiri S. Roy and M.R. Ray. 8. Environmental changes and its impact on migratory waterfowl/S.K. Barman. 9. Computational toxicology/Sudip K. Banerjee. 10. Environment management environment accounting and environment audit/P. Chattopadhyay. 11. Some issues on environment and development/Chittabrata Chakrabarti. 12. Environment and politics/Syamal Chakrabarti. 13. Historical background of the Sardar Sarovar Project and other Dams on River Narmada issues of social mobilization and environment/Debashish Chowdhury. 14. Music a man made environment/Manas Chatterjee. 15. The role of forest in global environmental changes/Ajit Banerjee. 16. Eco tourism as tool to sustainable development leading to conservation/S.R. Banerjee. 17. Waste plastics their recycling and related issues/B. Choudhuri and A.K. De. 18. Rain water harvesting a new vista for combating water scarcity/T. Bandyopadhyay. Man as an important biotic component of the ecosystem depends on his environment for sustenance. Various human activities resulted into many changes in the quality of air water and land. These changes in turn have produced detrimental effects on the whole ecosystem. This book contains articles that discuss the causes and effects of such environmental changes. Human concern about the environment at the international level got a concrete shape in 1972 at the United Nations Conference at Stockholm. In the same year United Nations Environment Programme came into being with the mission to Provide leadership and encourage partnership in caring for the environment by inspiring informing and enabling nations and people to improve their quality of life without compromising that of future generations. Since then in the following three and a half decades efforts have been taken on different levels to conserve nature and natural resources. This book also provides information of various strategies needed for proper environmental management aiming towards sustainable development. 200 pp.…