Environmental Issues And Options

The book is a compilation of chapters on various environmental maladies and feasible suggestions for their redressal, authored by eminent scientists representing the finest institutions of India. Invaluable information’s are available on watershed reclamation, solid and hazardous waste management, environmental management of aquaculture, air pollution, global bysinnosis, ozone depletion and global warming, energy management, radiation hazards and remote sensing applications. The book will be very useful for students, researchers, educators and NGOs in Environmental Science. Contents Chapter 1: Carbon Sequestration through Terrestrial Ecosystem: An Ecofriendly Solution to Global Warming by Asha A Juwarkar and Sanjeev Kumar Singh; Chapter 2: Environmental Impact of Ozone Depletion, Global Warming and Acid Rain by Prabavathi Nagarajan; Chapter 3: Resourceful Aspects of the Waste by Debnath Palit and Ambarish Mukherjee; Chapter 4: Improving Municipal Solid Waste Management of the City of Bangalore by Krishne Gowda Prof M V Sridhara; Chapter 5: Judicious Management of Biomedical Waste by Siba P Panda, C S K Mishra and Ranjita Muduli; Chapter 6: Problems and Prospects in Flyash Utilisation in Agriculture by P C Mishra and Dharitri Mahakur; Chapter 7: Major Air Pollutants and Environment: A Critical Review by P C Mishra and R K Patel; Chapter 8: Aldehyde (AS Formadehyde) and Pzone Concentrations in Ambient Air at Selected Locations in Hyderabad City by M Suneela, M S Sastry, N P Shasidhar Kumar, K Raisuddin and B Krishna Kannaiah; Chapter 9: Environmental Issues of Aquaculture by A A Vyas; Chapter 10: Environmental Management Towards Sustainable Aquaculture by Munil Kumar Sukham, Jitendra Kumar Sundaray and Guruaribam Aruna Devi; Chapter 11: Impact of Stocking Density and Water Quality of Growth, Survival and Production of Indian Major Carps in Village Ponds: A Review by R K Gupta, R Aggarwal and K L Jain; Chapter 12: Growth, Survial and Production of Scampi, Macrobrachium rosembergii (De Man) Under Semi-tropical Agro-climatic Conditions by K L Jain, R K Gupta, and Balraj Singh; Chapter 13: Climate Change and its impact on Fisheries by P Routray, S N Dash and P Swain; Chapter 14: Effect of Mercury Accumulation on Different Biochemical Parameters of Sesbania aculeata Pers by Debasis Dash, Dipti R Nanda, bibhuti B Mishra; Chapter 15: Green Technology: For Cleaning Up Heavy Metals in Soil and Water Ecosystems by J P N Rai, Y P Singh, V Singhal and V K Verma; Chapter 16: Agricultural Residues: Low Cost Potential Adsorbents for the Treatments of Wastewater by Dharam Buddhi, Deepika Swami and Richa Kothari; Chapter 17: Energy and Environment by M C Dash; Chapter 18: Environment and Radioactivity by Sujata Mishra; Chapter 19: Nuclear Radiations: Hazards and Safety Aspects vis-a-vis Power Generation by Manisha Chakrabortty; Chapter 20: Dust in Textile Mills Affect Health: A Glimpse of Global Byssinosis by H Venkatakrishna Bhatt; Chapter 21: Alternatives to Pesticides for Pest Management by T V Sathe; Chapter 22: Sericulture can Prevent Soil Erosion and Deforestation by T V Sathe; Chapter 23: Global Warming with Special Reference to Fisheries by Amita Saxena, Priyank Saxena, Akansha Bisht; Chapter 24: Remote Sensing and Geographical Information System for Natural Disaster Management by N V Prasad.