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ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES AND DISASTER MANAGEMENT

Ranjeeta Soni
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  • Imprint:

    NIPA

  • eISBN:

    9789394490291

  • Binding:

    EBook

  • Language:

    English

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The book is divided into nine chapters including ecosystems, biodiversity, natural resources, pollutions, solid waste management social issues and environment, environmental acts, environmental ethics and disaster management.

It will helpful and beneficial to students of all streams of graduates courses.  All chapters of the book contain the concepts, methods, types, related issues, causes and control methods.

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Environment Science is an integrated and interdisciplinary approach of Basic Science. Environmental studies are the study of social sciences to understand human interactions with the environment. It provides to the study of environmental facts, related issues and problems.

 
1 Natural Resources

Natural resources are the resources present naturally in the environment. These resources are used by human being for their survival. Minerals, building stones, forests, and various energy resources are known as natural resources. Natural resources have been extracted and utilized since ancient times but as the population increased, the demand of natural resources are increasing day by day.

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2 Ecosystem Concepts and Functions

Environment: Environment means “surrounding”. First definition of environment was given by “Ernst Haeckel”. According to this - The relation between all organic and inorganic atmosphere of any animal is called environment.

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3 Biodiversity Importance and Conservation

The term biodiversity is used by Walter and Roses in 1985. Biodiversity means the existence of a large number of different kinds of animals and plants which make a balanced environment. According to “Convocation on biological diversity (1992)”-Biodiversity is present in terrestrial, ocean and aquatic ecosystem. This diversity present in between same species, different species and in different ecosystem.

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4 Environmental Pollution

Pollution: Environmental pollution in general, may be described as the contamination of the environment with harmful wastes arising mainly from human activities. These activities release certain materials which produce pollution in the atmosphere water and soil. In simple words, environmental pollution may be defined as direct or indirect changes as a result of human activities, which adversely influence the biological and non-biological equilibrium of the environment.

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5 Solid Waste Management

Solid wastes are all the wastes arising from human and animal activities, that are normally solid and that are discarded as useless or unwanted materials. It consists of the highly heterogeneous mass of discarded materials from the urban community as well as the more homogenous accumulation of agricultural, industrial and mining waste.

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6 Social Issues and Environment

Sustainable Development A social cause is a problem that influences a considerable number of individuals within a society. There are many environmental issues the India like pollution, waste management sustainable development, rain water harvesting etc.

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7 Environmental Acts

For the protection of all the factors of environment, laws were formed and amended from time to time as per the requirement. There are many acts according to the main factors and separate laws, for the enforcement. Also, the are some control acts, which can be implemented by states for the local environmental problems.

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8 Environmental Ethics

Environmental Ethics is a conceptual term which consist various aspects of environmental fundaments, Enviromental ethics is responsible to protect and sustain the resources and ecological system.

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9 Disaster Management

A disaster is any event natural or manmade which creates an intense negative impact on people goods and services and or the environment and exceeds the affected community internal capability to respond prompting the need to seek outside assistance. In other words a disaster is a serious disturbance of a community or society interfere human resources losses and impacts on economically and environmentally or disaster means simply an event has unfortunate consequences on only on human but also on whole environment. Disaster can be two types’ Natural disaster and manmade disaster.

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