Environmental Issues and Sustainable Development

Contents: Preface. 1. Environmental issues and development/S.K. Sharma. 2. Environmental management assessment, issues and strategies/H.M. Saxena. 3. Environmental management and sustainability/Lex Brown. 4. Methods of impact environmental analysis/T.I. Khan. 5. Environmental degradation and resource utilization/B.L. Teli. 6. Ecosystem planning and management/H.M. Saxena. 7. Environmental strategies for combating drought/Pratap Narain, K.D. Sharma, A.S. Rao, D.V. Singh, B.K. Mathur and Usha Rani Ahuja. 8. Environmental economics of open cast mining/M.L. Jhanwar. 9. Environmental implications of fisheries development/Mengistu Woube. 10. Remote sensing techniques and GIS for disasters management/S.C. Kalwar and Rohit Kumar. 11. Shifting cultivation, deforestation and landslides/R.K. Rai. 12. Application of sustainable development concept : some issues/Srikumar Chattopadhyay. 13. Application of geomorphology in environmental assessment/H.S. Sharma. 14. Pesticides and non-target animals/Prakash Bakre. 15. Politics and environment : formulating green policies for development without destruction/Surender Singh Chauhan. "In the beginning of the twenty-first century, environmental issues, particularly environmental degradation, pollution and sustainable development are burning issues. Ever increasing greenhouse effects, ozone layer depletion, global warming, consequences of climatic warming, acidification, salization, deforestation, soil degradation, desertification, waste disposal, water scarcity, decline in fresh water ecosystems, limits to 294 pp.…