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Environment and Sustainable Development (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2014)
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Environment and Sustainable Development (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2014)
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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. 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. 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. 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.
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