Environmental Protection and Sustainable Development

Contents: Foreword. Preface. 1. Environmental literacy: concept, need and alternative strategies/B.R. Kukreti and Sunita Sundariyal. 2. Environmental management: a social concern/Anjali Ganesh. 3. Environmental education through co-operative learning/Lavoo Achrekar and Shefali Pandya. 4. E-Waste: what step reveals India and world/Manoj Kumar Saxena and Ravi Raj. 5. Environmental regulations in India/A. Padurangan, Ravdeep Saini and Vipin Saini. 6. Environmental education: need of the hour and demand of future/Jyotsna Saxena and Geetika Mehrotra. 7. University education curriculum for environmental education: perspectives of socio-economics and policy implications/Siringi EM. 8. Environmental attitudes and behaviour of prospective teachers/Francis Chisikwa Indoshi, Joseph Achieng Rabari and Maurine Kangabi. 9. A study on environmental awareness of UG level of students in Assam/Nilratan Roy and Tribeni Devi. 10. Environmental protection and sustainable development a further update/Ravinder Rena. Environmental protection and sustainable development aim at development to meet the requirement of the present generation without compromising the requirements of future generations. It paves the way to successfully transfer the world’s assets primordially, the natural resources to future offspring creating necessary conditions, for responsible use by employment of needed programmes, policies and practices. Earth Summit’s agenda 21 urges to ensure reduction of poverty, provision of clean water and health care, and protect the natural resources and some of Millennium Development Goals and Intergovernmental panel on Climate change implicated to attain social and ecological sustainability to cherish short and long term goals pertaining to growth and development in almost all areas. Therefore, ecological protection and sustainable development leads to economically viable growth by minimizing the percentage poverty stricken population and socially equitable development and protection of the environment for attaining sustainable development. It also aims to achieve a balance of growth and development in rural and urban areas with a lens on equity in employment, fundamental services, food security, education, health care, residence, social overheads like roads, schools, hospitals and parks, and better transportation with ecological protection. In developing countries like India, sustainable development will be extremely significant in effective management of urban basic services like, water supply management of waste, management of energy and maintaining equalities in all pockets. The programmes and policies related to environmental sustainability employed by governments of developing countries functioned quite effectively, to protect biodiversity reduce land degradation, conserve and manage wetland and maintain air and water quality standards by developing a huge network of protected areas extended to various areas of the states. The primordial objective of this book is to initiate an informed debate on key issues which influence the national and international aims of sustainable growth and development keeping in view the safeguards of environment. Successful bringing out of the present volume to begin discussions crucially depends on painstaking endeavours made by all the contributors of the book. (jacket).…