Environmental Problems and Sustainable Development: Issues and Challenges

by Roopshikha Agrawal

ISBN: 9789386615787
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Imprint : Scholars World
Year : 2018
Price : Rs. 6495.00
Biblio : xxii+166p.,col.plts.,figs.,tabls., 25 cm

Author Profile

Dr. Roopshikha Agrawal is Assistant Professor of Botany selected by Public Service Commission of Chhattisgarh with merit. She completed her M.Sc. (Botany) from Dr. Hari Singh Gour University Sagar (M.P.) in first division with 2nd position in University merit. She has done her Ph.D. from Dr. Hari Singh Gour University, Sagar (M.P.). She has twelve year experience of teaching in Govt. Degree & P.G. Colleges of M.P & C.G. She is member of various academic societies & Ex. Co-editor of an International Journal “Lab to Land“. She has published several research papers in various Indian Journals. She has written a book “Fungal Foliage Diseases and Management”.

About The Book

Environment & Human beings are interdependent on each other. But Environmental problems are innumerable, like air pollution due to industries & automobiles, surface water pollution due to industries, domestic waste and agriculture, ground water pollution due to solid waste, soil pollution due to industries, deforestation and habitat loss due to shifting cultivation, illegal cutting of trees. It is a big challenge to maintain environmental balance along with developmental activities. Sustainable development easy to define but almost impossible to achieve. It is easy to have sustainable utilization of the renewable resources but it is impossible for the non renewable resources. Development & Environment are said to be contradictory to each other, however the bad effect of developmental process can be regulates to a great extent through proper utilization of the Technology. This text book explain in detail various types of water, air and soil pollution. The book also demonstrate the biodiversity of Madhya Pradesh & Chhattisgarh region and provides suggestion to conserve the biodiversity. Some chapters of book have established the utility of plant diversity in different ways such as fuel, microalgae as a source of future source of biofuel, weeds can be utilized as medicine, antimicrobial activity of Tulsi plant etc. Some chapters of book explains Laws Legislation related to environment and suggestion to protect environment. This book captures the complexity and dynamics of environmental problems & development and seeking to understand this important contemporary issue.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgement v Editorial vii Messages ix Preface xvii 1. Impact of Toxicant of Fertilizer Industry Waste Effluent at Bhopal (M.P.) 1 Vibha Choubey and Parmita Dubey 2. Water Quality of Tandula River in Balod Area, District Balod, Chhattisgarh 5 E.P. Chelak and K. Sharma 3. Degradation of Some Industrial Dyes by Different Basidiomycetous Fungal Species 11 Chandrahas Sahu and Bharati Verma 4. Pesticides: ‘A Threat to Mankind’ 25 Madhurani Shukla and K.K. Tiwari 5. Chlorococcales Algae in Narsaiya Pond of Raipur City 31 Smriti Chakravarty and M.L. Naik xx 6. Study of Airspora in Different Vegetable Market in Raipur City with Special Reference to Winter Season 35 Priti Tiwari 7. Ethnomedicinal Use of some Weeds on Rice Fields of Rajim Region, Distt. Gariaband, Chhattisgarh 41 Roopshikha Agrawal and Arvind Agrawal 8 Study of the Plants of Gandhi Udyan of Raipur City 53 R. Verma, P. Dewangan, V. Acharya and A.K. Girolkar 9. Diversity of Medicinal Plants in Chhindwara District 59 Simpal Patil 10. Conservation of Biodiversity 65 Kritika J. Namdeo and Swati Sahu 11. Microalgae are Future Resource of Biofuel: A Review 71 Indu Soni, Preeti Tiwri and Madhu Yamini Soni 12. Study on Antimicrobial Activity of different Solvent Extracts of Ocimum sanctum Linn. against some Bacterial Species 79 Prerna Soni and Shobha Gawri 13. Phytochemical Analysis of Mimosa hamata Linn. 87 Bhawana Pandey and Sudha Agrawal 14. Environmental Pollution: Its Effects on Live and its Remedies 93 Neelima Gupta 15. Solid Waste Management 105 Manisha Garg 16. Sustainable Development in India with Reference to Agricultural Area 109 Bhawana Thakur 17. Environmental Policies, Laws and Legislation 119 Usha Mishra and Priyanka Mishra xxi 18- i;kZoj.k uhfr;ka] dkuwu ,oa fo/kk;u Hkkjr ds fo'ks"k lanHkZ esa ¼fo'ys"k.kkRed v/;;u½ 129 e;wj f'k[kk vxzoky 19- i;kZoj.k laj{k.k vkSj iks"k.kh; fodkl esa U;k;ikfydk dh Hkwfedk 139 HkwisUnz djoan ,oe~ J)k ikaMs 20- orZeku lkfgR; esa Ik;kZoj.k foe'kZ 145 vulw;k vxzoky 21- i;kZoj.k iznw"k.k] LokLF; vkSj izca/ku 151 e/kqckyk feJk ,oe~ jhrk ;kno Index 155