Environmental Problems and Challenges : Recent Issues and Opportunities : A Festschrift for Professor Raj Kumar Sen

Contents: Preface. 1. General issues. 2. Natural resources. 3. Recent environmental problems. Index. This book examines the different dimensions of global and regional environmental problems such as the waste management, climate change, deforestation and forest degradation, non-timber Forest Product NTFP biodiversity environmental pollution air pollution, water pollution etc. This book is designed in a prospective view of the contemporary environmental issues, with emphasis on general and specialized branches of knowledge and applications. This book has given an idea about the origin of environmental problems and strategies for solving them. This book is based on relevant authoritative and thought provoking articles written by professionals and experts of respective fields. The articles are distributed into three parts and organized in a sequential and logical way in terms of environmental issues that makes reading continuous and helps the reader acquire a holistic view of the subject. This book will meet the requirements of executives, research scholars, academicians and students of professional programmes. It has been considered by the editor and his colleagues that the contents of this book are ideally suited to serve as a festschrift in honour of Professor Raj Kumar Sen who has been instrumental in introducing environmental economics to a large number of his students including the present editor. (jacket). …