This book seeks different issues of resource-use-development-environment
interfaces together with their implications. It showcases fresh empirical
studies conducted at different scales on the nature of environment and
development relationship, dynamics of their interface and emerging issues
confronting humanity, especially developing societies like India; and,
highlights their findings. It is an endeavour towards widening the horizon of
environmental understanding crucial for sustainable human existence and
development. The readers will find most of the chapters comprehensive in scope
and thought stimulating as well as informative.