Environment
An Illustrated Journey
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP India
- Date of Publication 15 December 2011
- ISBN 9780198076995
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages188 pages
- Size 256x184x17 mm
- Weight 450 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 15 line illustrations 0
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Short description:
Divided into three parts dealing with environmental crisis and its cause, understanding the crisis, and possible remedial measures, the book provides a balanced understanding of the major issues and concerns related to the environment, both locally in India and globally.
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Divided into three parts dealing with environmental crisis and its cause, understanding the crisis, and possible remedial measures, the book provides a balanced understanding of the major issues and concerns related to the environment, both locally in India and globally. From threatened ecosystems, disappearing forests, and endangered species to depleting natural resources, escalating pollution, growing population, and dangerous toxins-the book addresses the major environmental crises confronting us today. Using environment-related stories and real-life cases from the Indian and global contexts, the book illustrates the various problems we encounter in our daily lives, provides possible solutions, and recounts successes and failures. The evocative line drawings and sketches complementing the text often present self-complete stories in themselves.
The appendices on further reading (books, magazines, and websites), resources (organizations, etc.), interesting trivia, and a glossary of terms are a special feature of the volume. Aiming to generate increased sensitivity among readers towards environmental issues, it tries to inculcate in us an appreciation of the seriousness of the environmental crisis at the local and global levels.
This book is not a mere textbook. The author has written with passion and zeal ... In fact, I have read out the book's account on the Bhopal gas tragedy to my students and received silence as their affirmation of the seriousness of the world's worst industrial disaster ... The author makes clear suggestions on what must be done, including collective and individually conducted actions ... The dispersion of facts and figures throughout the book will engage the wandering student mind of the amateur environmentalist. It felt good to have read this book as it made me feel closer to my green home. It has also made me feel more responsible and realise once again the urgency of the planetary crisis.
Table of Contents:
Preface.
INTRODUCTION
Prologue: The Conservationist's Lament and the Technologist's Reply
Planet in Peril: Three Stories
PART I: THE CRISIS AND ITS CAUSE
Prologue: A Fable for Tomorrow
The Global Environmental Crisis
Why are We in a Crisis?
Part II: The Crisis Described
Prologue: How Can One Sell the Air?
A Thirsty World: Scarcity and Water Pollution
A Warming World: Energy, Global Warming, and Climate Change
A Toxic World: Waste, Pollution, and Environmental Health
A World without Life: Forests and Biological Diversity
A Dying Ocean: Polluted Seas and Coasts
A Crowded World: Growing Population and Urbanization
A Hungry World: Land, Soil, Food and Agriculture
A World Past the Tipping Point?
Part III: The Cure
Prologue: The Man Who Planted Trees
World Response to the Crisis
Hope for the Planet and How You Can Help
APPENDICES
Further Reading: Books and Magazines, Websites
Resources: Organizations, etc.
Answers to 'Find Out and Be Surprised!'
Glossary of Terms
Index
