Environmental scenario in India
Subtitle: successes and predicaments
By: edited by Sacchidananda Mukherjee and Debashis Chakraborty
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780415666558; 9780203137031
Subjects: Groundwater ecology; Water-supply; Management; Groundwater; Water resources development; Environmental aspects; Pollution
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Sacchidananda Mukherjee and Debashis Chakraborty; title: Agricultural sector and environment; title: Issues and options to control agricultural nonpoint source pollution / Sacchidananda Mukherjee; title: Economics of sustainable shrimp aquaculture in India / Ramachandra Bhatta; title: Impact of the monsoon trawling ban on marine fisheries in Tamil Nadu / Ierene Francis Part; title: Manufacturing sector and environment; title: Economics of "not" controlling pollution / L. Venkatachalam; title: Environmental costs of the coal-based thermal power generation in India / Shrabani Mukherjee; title: Environmental cost of using top-soil for brick making / Vinish Kathuria and R. Balasubramanian; title: Environmental impacts (costs) of hydropower generation in India / Bimlesh Kumar and Achanta Ramakrishna Rao; title: Service sector and the environment; title: Growing environmental costs of urban water supplies / M. Dinesh Kumar; title: Municipal solid waste management in India / Prasenjit Sarkhel; title: Environmental cost of biomedical waste management / S. Srividhya and Paul P. Appasamy; title: E-waste recycling : bridging the formal-informal divide / Ashish Chaturvedi, Rachna Arora, and Ulrike Killguss; title: Trade and environment; title: Agriculture and environment in India / Amita Shah; title: Is India turning into a pollution haven? / Debashis Chakraborty; title: Conclusion / Sacchidananda Mukherjee and Debashis Chakraborty.