About the Book: Environmental Studies: Principles and Practices
A comprehensive textbook discussing and analyzing fundamental concepts of
environment and various issues and challenges related to it. Closely following
the UGC CBCS guidelines on the Ability Enhancement Compulsory Course (AECC) on
Environmental Studies, this textbook offers a comprehensive coverage of the
subject in a simple and lucid language. Spread through 8 units, the book adopts
a multidisciplinary approach to discuss and analyse the fundamental concepts of
environment and its sustainable management, ecosystems, environmental impacts,
issues and challenges, and field work. Through global and local examples and
caselets, illustrations, tables and images, the book attempts to make the topics
easy-to-understand