Introduction To Environment Management

This comprehensive book, now in its third edition, brings into fore the fundamental concepts of environment management. The elegantly combined presentation of various aspects of environment, ecosystems, effects of global warming and pollution, and various ways to conserve nature and save environment, with profundity, is a highlight of this text.

The third edition, while retaining the thorough coverage of the various areas of environment managementecology, biodiversity, degradation of environment, agro-ecosystem and sustaining agriculture, forest and wildlife, waste management, emerging disciplines in environmental management, environment legislation, ethical aspects of environmentthrows light on a new chapter on Ecological Dynamics and Human Influence that discusses the various environmentally significant behaviour, including environmental activism, eco-terrorism, bio-terrorism, agro-terrorism, ecotage, Green Scare, and environmental refugee.

Designed as a textbook for the postgraduate students of management, this book can be equally useful for the undergraduate students of all disciplines.

Foreword Preface

Preface to the First Edition

Abbreviations

Section I: Ecology

1. Introduction to Ecology

2. Environment and Its Components

3. Soil, Water and Air

Section II: Biodiversity

4. Definition and Scope of Biodiversity

5. Biological Diversity

6. Value and Uses of Biodiversity

Section III: Degradation of Environment

7. Pollution and Pollution Control

8. Global Warming and Climate Change

9. Energy Requirement and Global Warming

10. Dimensions of Environment Management

11. Sustainable Development

Section IV: Agro-ecosystem and Sustainable Agriculture

12. Agro-ecosystems

13. Agro-biodiversity

14. Sustainable Agriculture and Organic Farming

Section V: Forest and Wildlife

15. Forests Ecosystem

16. Wildlife and Its Conservation

17. Grassland Ecosystem

18. Wetland Ecosystem

19. Carbon Sequestration and Carbon Credit

Section VI: Waste Management

20. Solid Waste Management

21. Integrated Solid Waste Management

22. E-waste Management

23. Radioactive Waste

Section VII: Emerging Disciplines in Environmental Management

24. Environment Management Accounting

25. Ecological and Environmental Economics

26. Environmental Behaviour and Related Disciplines

27. Ecological Dynamics and Human Influence

Section VIII: Environment Legislations

28. National Legislations

29. International Treaties

30. Green Business

31. Environmental Crime

Section IX: Ethical Aspects of Environment

32. Environmental Ethics

33. Religion and Environment