Eco-Degradation Biodiversity and Health

by B N Pandey

ISBN: 9789383129874
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Imprint : Daya Publishing House
Year : 2021
Price : Rs. 11495.00
Biblio : ix+335p., figs., tabls., ind., 23 cm

About The Book

Survival of any organism depends upon its surrounding environment. The relationship between man and his environment is never static. Man’s extensive interaction with the environment has resulted in Eco-Degradation. The Eco-Degradation is pose to come up as one of the major concerns for the mankind. Increasing rate of Urbanisation, Industrialisation, Mining, Deforestation and Population explosion resulted in highly polluted milieu and formidable health hazards not only for the mankind but for the entire living beings. The present book deals with the impact of Eco-Degradation on Population Health as well as Aquatic Health. Actual scientific research articles/reviews were included in the book were written by the eminent scientists of the field. This book will be of great use as a reference book to students/research scholars/scientists working in the field of Environmental Studies, Life Sciences and Social Sciences.

Table of Contents

Contents Chapter 1: Eco-degradation: Its implications and management by Omkar and K C Pandey; Chapter 2: Eco-degradation, health and well-being and the future by Robert G Gregory; Chapter 3: Environment, disease pattern and health status in a primitive tribe of rajasthan by Pramod Misra and A K Kapoor; Chapter 4: Shift in socio-cultural patterns by deforestation by V K Sharma; Chapter 5: Foetal wastage, infant mortality and ecological and social factors in six tribal groups of jharkhand by B N Pandey, P K L Das, A K Jha and A K Ojha; Chapter 6: Modernization and demographic change: A study in a primitive tribe of madhya pradesh by G D Pandey and R S Tiwari; Chapter 7: Occupational health: An overview by P K Gangopadhyay; Chapter 8: Occupational impact on health of biri workers: A case study of simdega sub-division by U C N Tiwari; Chapter 9: Societal development in mining areas by Naresh C Saxena; Chapter 10: Coal mine spoils reclamation with legumes and grasses: An environmental field study by M P Singh and Namita Sinha; Chapter 11: Assessment of dust from opencast iron mine of kiriburu (Jharkhand) by Abhijit Dutta, Anjali Dutta, Sunuta Dutta and P N Pamdey; Chapter 12: Dust sources and control techniques in longwall panels by Sambhu Sharan; Chapter 13: Impact of dishwashing activity on health of housewives by Nutan R Biradar; Chapter 14: Incidence of consanguinity and its effects on fertility and child survival among muslims of ladakh in jammu and kashmir by M K Bhasin and Shampa Nag; Chapter 15: Rural economy, sanitation and health: A review and management by Nutan R Biradar; Chapter 16: Impact of industrialization on tribal groups of jharkhand by B N Pandey; Chapter 17: Preliminary phytochemical anlaysis of medicinal plants of south chotanagpur used against dysentery by R L Ram; Chapter 18: Drinking water quality of koshi zone (Bihar and its impact on population health by B N Pandey, P K L Das, A K Jha and A K Ojha; Chapter 19: Diurnal variations in physico-chemical parameters of bonal reservoir during post-monsoon season by K Vijaykumar, Halli Anjinappa, Ramesha, I, Virupanna and C Padmavathi; Chapter 20: Effect of physico-chemical factors on seasonal abundance of rotiferea in chandrampalli reservoir, Gulbarga district by K Vijaykumar, Virupanna, C Padmavathi, Halli Anjinappa and Ramesha I; Chapter 21: Variations in the physico-chemical characteristics of lentic water body of gulbarga by K Vijaykumar, C Padmavathi, Virupanna, Ramesha I and Halli Anjinappa; Chapter 22: Insect abundance in relation in physico-chemical characteristics of pond water at gulbarga, karnataka by K vijaykumar, Ramesha I, Halli Anjinappa, Virupanna and C Padmavathi; Chapter 23: A study of bioindicators in satluj river in the region of punjab by H Kaur, J Syal and S S Dhillon; Chapter 24: River water pollution and rural health: A review by B B Chanappagoudar and S S Salakinkop; Chapter 25: Histopathological manifestations of strigeoid infection in heteropneustes fossil