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Springer Environment and Sustainable Development by M.H. Fulekar, Bhawana Pathak, R K Kale
Global society in the 21st century is facing challenges of improving the quality of air, water, soil and the environment and maintaining the ecological balance. Environmental pollution, thus, has become a major global concern. The modern growth of industrialization, urbanization, modern agricultural development and energy generation has resulted in the indiscriminate exploitation of natural resources for fulfilling human desires and needs, which has contributed in disturbing the ecological balance on which the quality of our environment depends. _x000D__x000D_Human beings, in the truest sense, are the product of their environment. The man-environment relationship indicates that pollution and deterioration of the environment have a social origin. The modern technological advancements in chemical processes/operations have generated new products, resulting in new pollutants in such abundant levels that they are above the self-cleaning capacity of the environment. One of the major issues in recent times is the threat tohuman lives due to the progressive deterioration of the environment from various sources. The impact of the pollutants on the environment will be significant when the accumulated pollutants load will exceed the carrying capacity of the receiving environment. _x000D__x000D_Sustainable development envisages the use of natural resources, such as forests, land, water and fisheries, in a sustainable manner without causing changes in our natural world. The Rio de Janeiro-Earth Summit, held in Brazil in 1992, focused on sustainable development to encourage respect and concern for the use of natural resources in a sustainable manner for the protection of the environment. _x000D__x000D_This book will be beneficial as a source of educational material to post-graduate research scholars, teachers and industrial personnel for maintaining the balance in the use of natural sources for sustainable development._x000D_ Table of contents : - _x000D_
Preface.- Contributors.- 1.Emergence of Green Technologies towards Sustainable Growth.- 2.Sustainable Development: An Earnest Hope.- 3.Soil Seed Bank Dynamics: History and Ecological Significance in Sustainability of Different Ecosystems.- 4.Challenges and Prospects in Exploring Marine Microbial Diversity.- 5.Bioprospecting of Plant Essential Oils for Medicinal Uses.- 6.Air Pollution Scenario over Delhi City.- 7.Nanotechnology: Perspective's for Environmental Sustainability.- 8. An Overview of Environmental Remediation using Photocatalyst.- 9.Role of Biopolymers in Industries: their prospective future applications.- 10.Green Federalism: A Historical leap towards Sustainable Human Development.- 11.Economic sustainability in light of consumer behavior: Social Perspectives.- 12.Global warming and agriculture: Industrial Arrangement for sustainable Development.- 13.Green Buildings - Opportunities and Challenges.- 14. Mathematical models in sustainable development.- Index._x000D_