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Environmental Management: Issues and Concerns in Developing Countries

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  • © 2021

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Editors:
  1. Pradip K. Sikdar

    1. Department of Environment Management, Indian Institute of Social Welfare and Business Management, Kolkata, India

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  • Broadens the readers' understanding of the environment and its socio-political-economic model
  • Maximizes readers’ insight into sustainable environmental management practices
  • Reviews the different components of the Earth’s biocapacity and ecological footprint
  • Summarizes the inter-dependencies between environmental concerns and development pressures

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Environmental Management: Issues and Concerns

    • Pradip K. Sikdar
    Pages 1-21

  3. Earth Science in Environmental Management

    • Reshmi Das, Meenakshi Mukherjee
    Pages 23-41

  4. Ecological Footprint: Indicator of Environmental Sustainability

    • Priya Banerjee, Aniruddha Mukhopadhayay
    Pages 43-59

  5. Air, Noise and Odour Pollution and Control Technologies

    • Dipanjali Majumdar
    Pages 61-78

  6. Water Pollution and Treatment Technologies

    • Abhisek Roy, Biswajit Thakur, Anupam Debsarkar
    Pages 79-106

  7. Sustainable Municipal Waste Management in Indian Cities

    • Tapas Kumar Ghatak
    Pages 107-125

  8. Environmentally Sustainable Practices

    • Rishin Basu Roy
    Pages 127-138

  9. Energy Conservation and Its Impact on Climate Change

    • Arindam Dutta
    Pages 139-150

  10. Issues, Dimensions and Approaches of Assessing Urban Water Security in Developing and Emerging Countries: An Inclusive Perspective

    • Subham Mukherjee, Trude Sundberg, Brigitta Schütt
    Pages 151-184

  11. Remote Sensing and GIS in Environmental Management

    • Surajit Chakraborty
    Pages 185-220

  12. Environmental Disaster Management and Risk Reduction

    • Subham Mukherjee, Surajit Kar, Sukdeb Pal
    Pages 221-252

  13. Environmental Impact Assessment

    • Pradip K. Sikdar
    Pages 253-283

  14. Life Cycle Assessment and Environmental Audit—Emerging Tools of Environmental Management in Businesses

    • Jhumoor Biswas
    Pages 285-302

  15. Economic Values for the Environment with Special Reference to the Contingent Valuation Method

    • Anita Chattopadhyay Gupta, Nilendu Chatterjee
    Pages 303-321

  16. Geopolitics in Environmental Discourse

    • Jayanta Basu
    Pages 323-330

  17. Socio-cultural Challenges in Environmental Management: A Sociological Approach

    • Surajit C. Mukhopadhyay
    Pages 331-342

  18. Policies and Legal Aspects of Environmental Management

    • Paulami Sahu
    Pages 343-367

  19. Environment and Development: Looking Towards the Future

    • Pradip K. Sikdar
    Pages 369-379

  20. Back Matter

    Pages 381-387
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Keywords

About this book

This book deals with issues and concerns for the human environment in the developing countries incorporating natural processes and systems, pollution removal technology, energy conservation, environmental impact assessment process, economics, culture, political structure and societal equity from a management point of view. Solutions to the emerging problems of the environment need a paradigmatic shift in approach from a process based model to a socio-political-economic model. Hence environmental management should involve equality and control over use of the finite natural resources and the balance between Earth’s biocapacity and humanity’s ecological footprint. Changes such as green technologies, human population stabilization and adoption of ecologically harmonious lifestyles are absolutely essential and will require redesigning of political institutions, policies and revisiting forgotten skills of sustainable practices of environmental management. These challenges should centreon environment governance using the concepts of common property, equity and security.


This book is relevant for academics, professionals, administrators and policy makers who are concerned with various aspects of environment management and governance.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Environment Management, Indian Institute of Social Welfare and Business Management, Kolkata, India

    Pradip K. Sikdar

About the editor

Professor Pradip K. Sikdar, former Acting Registrar, Indian Institute of Social Welfare and Business Management and currently Professor, Department of Environment Management, is actively engaged in research and teaching of groundwater hydrology and environmental impact assessment with over 30 years of experience in project management and implementation, field and research work in groundwater systems including the application of computer models. He has carried out extensive research on arsenic contamination in groundwater of the Bengal Basin and his present research also deals with the sustainability of water supply in the fluoride affected and semi-arid regions of West Bengal and the design of groundwater abstraction structures. 


Prof. Sikdar has supervised several students for Master, Doctoral and Post-doctoral research work and is also a Visiting Faculty in the Departments of Geology, Environmental Science and Atmospheric Science at University of Calcutta and the Department of Geology, at the Presidency University. He is a reviewer for many national and international journals and is a member of several national and international professional institutions and societies. He is also on the Board of Editors of some leading national journals. Prof. Sikdar has published more than 150 research papers in international and national journals, conference proceedings, books and is the leading author for several project reports. He is a recipient of the 22nd Dewang Mehta Business School Award 2014 for the ‘Best Professor in Water Resources Management’, and Groundwater Science Excellence Award in 2015 by the International Association of Hydrogeologists (India Chapter)  in appreciation of his contributions in the field of groundwater research.

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