Environmental concerns / editor, Debabrata Das Gupta.

Contributed articles.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1 Global Warming and its Mitigation Strategies / Jayanta Kumar Datta -- 2 Some Environmental Issues: Global Warming and Agrarian Crisis / Anil Kumar De -- 3 Climate Change and Agriculture in Orissa / D. P. Ray -- 4 Climate Change and Groundwater Sustainability: A Scientific Critique / S. Chakrabarti and S. Ghosh -- 5 Understanding the Facets of Sustainable Development An Exploration / Sibaji Chakraborti -- 6 Role of Environment Degradation on Conservation of Plant and Pollinator Resources / Sudhendu Mandal and Ashoke Bhattacharya -- 7 Atmospheric Pollution and its Consequences on Agriculture / Bidhan Roy and Asit Kumar Basu -- 8 Radiation Stress in Crop Plants / Bidhan Roy -- 9 Biodiversity vis-a-vis Environment / Buddhadeb Duary -- 10 Natural Resource Management -An Emerging Domain in Sustainable Development / Anindita Saha -- 11 Bio-Diversity: The Inconvenient Truth / P. K. DAS -- 12 Stress Ecology and Nano Particles / Ranen Sen and Debmalya Dasgupta -- 13 Toxicology: Some Fundamental Aspects / Apurba Ratan Ghosh -- 14 Integrated Pest Management: Panacea to Contain Pesticide Abuse / Sarthak Chowdhury and Prabuddha Ray -- 15 Impact of Fungicides on Environment: An Overview / A. Chowdhury and S. Saha -- 16 Application of Fuzzy Logic for Pest Management in Agriculture / Somdatta Chakravortty -- 17 Food Safety in India: Challenges and Opportunities / Md. Wasim Aktar and Anjan Bhattacharyya -- 18 Energy, Food and Environment: The Biomass Impact / P. K. DAS -- 19 A Success Story: Watershed Development in Jalukie Region of Nagaland / S. S. Gadge and B. P. Bhatt -- 20 Impact of Mayurakshi Canal Irrigation on Changing Geo-Economic Environment of its Command Area / Arpita Ghosh and Malay Mukhopadhyay -- 21 Changing Land Use Pattern and its Impact on Wetland Environment System: A Justification Study on Kandi Block of Murshidabad District, West Bengal / Sutapa Mukhopadhyay and Swades Pal -- 22 Mining and Quarrying Related Development Activities and Environmental Sustainability in Muhammad bazar Birbhum District, West Bengal: Queries Over Quarries / Manisha Deb Sarkar and Sriparna Sengupta -- 23 Transgenic Plants: Prospects and Controversies / Md. Nasim Ali -- 24 Minimizing Environmental Pollution / Manjur Hossain -- 25 Some Useful Methods for the Assessment of Environmental Health of an Aquatic System / Phani Bhusan Ghosh, Subhasis Sarkar and Tapan Saha -- 26 Ganga River Water Pollution - Challenges Ahead / S. N. Chatterjee -- 27 The Electric Highway - India's Future for Green Transportation? / Bernard Fleet and Shibani Chaudhury -- 28 Property Rights of Environmental Resources: Revisited Concepts and Thoughts / Debashis Sarkar -- 29 Extension for Environmentally Sound Agriculture: Basic Theories and Agenda for Action / Rupak Goswami -- 30 Kick the Carbon Dioxide Habit! / Debabrata Das Gupta -- 31 Environmental Audit / Debabrata Das Gupta -- 32 Environmental Laws in India: A Review / Manik Chakraborty

Environment has become the central point of global concern. The quality of environment is affected by production and consumption activities of people. Society's welfare with its economic activities is also governed by environment. Here, the convergence between ecology, ethics economics and other allied sciences obviously encompassing issues of environment has become the centre of our concerns. In such context this book on "ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS" concentrates. This volume contains the issues like global warming and climate, degradation of natural resource base, biodiversity phenomena, food security, watershed management, mining action, energy use efficiency, environmental audit, environmental laws and overall ethics in environmental management.