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| Environment encompasses all the conditions and influences that have an effect on the life and development of all organisms on earth. Earth is estimated to be 4500 million years old while the existence of human beings is not more than 2.5 million years ago. Even so, human existence had a wider impact on the quality of earth and its environment.
In the past few decades, the human population has expanded exponentially, yet the resources available remain the same. Rapid increase in population has caused intangible damages, like levelling of numerous forests for human accommodation, industrialization, overexploitation of natural resources, thereby creating imbalance between environment and humans. Having said that if we use the available resources in a sustainable way we can stabilise this disturbance but human “greed” come in our way. Human demands have mostly been achieved at the expense of forests, wetlands and marine ecosystems, disrupting ecosystems and causing tremendous loss to the environment. This book attempts to inculcate an understanding of how environment functions and how humans interact with the environment. The language of the book is kept simple to reach a wide range of student backgrounds. Authors have highlighted the basic concepts of environmental biology and the current book integrates the basic principles and components including some new contributions. If you want to buy this book online, kindly click on the following link: |
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Prof. Omkar, FNASc, associated with teaching for about 36 years and research for 44 years is the Former Head, Department of Zoology, University of Lucknow, Lucknow, Former Coordinator, UGC-SAP (DRSII), DST-FIST, DST-PURSE, Centre of Excellence, Govt. of UP, programs. He has worked on a number of projects of state/central funding agencies. He specializes in Environmental Toxicology and Entomology, with particular reference to the Insect Pest Management.He is a recipient of several awards, like Saraswati Samman by the Department of Higher Education, Govt. of UP; Prof. T N Ananthakrishanan Foundation Award, Rescholar Award of Excellence in Agricultural Entomology by Association of Entomologists, Prof. G. S. Shukla Gold Medal by the Academy of Environmental Biology, Dr. S. Pradhan Memorial Lecture Award by The Division of Entomology, Indian Agricultural Research Institute & The Entomological Society of India, New Delhi, ACCLAIM and Uddeepan awards from University of Lucknow. Prof. Omkar has guided 25 Ph.D. students. Dr. Ravi Shanker Verma, is an Assistant Professor at Chandra Bhanu Gupta Agriculture College, Lucknow. He has done his Ph.D. on “toxic effects of heavy metals on fresh water prawns” from University of Lucknow in 2006. He has been passionately involved with research and teaching of environmental biology. He has published a number of research papers of national and international repute in the field of toxicology and environmental science. Dr. Verma believes that understanding of environmental biology is crucial for the health of the ecosystem and for ascertaining the bright future of humankind. |
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Author: Ravi Shanker Verma
Publisher: New Age
ISBN-13: 9789389802634
Language: English
Binding: Paper Back
Product Edition: 2023
No. Of Pages: 296
Country of Origin: India
International Shipping: No
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