Essential Environmental Studies 4/E

Constantly increasing environmental awareness and on readers demand the book has deservedly earned its fourth edition. While retaining all its basic features the text has been completely revised and updated assimilating necessary amendments while keeping its originality and presentation pattern intact. Latest information on topics of various Ecosystems Ecological Pyramids Biodiversity Conservation Environmental Pollution Population Growth etc. has been included. New additions like Global Cooling El Nino and La Nina Sunderland (hot spots) will further augment merit of the text. Acute shortage of electricity is adversely affecting development of the Country. The estimated demand for energy will be four times more by 2025. At present there is no clear and definite vision to fulfil such a massive requirement of electricity in the future. Nuclear energy seems to be perhaps the only alternate that the government is focusing on. This problem has been freshly evaluated in the text. Inclusion of recent data of census (2011) urbanisation and automobile pollution new boxes and updated special environment calendar will further enhance its utility inducing environmental awareness. Introductory contribution of Shri Kailash Satyarthi the recent Nobel Laureate for Peace (2014) is appropriately cited.