Environmental Concerns : Third World Perspectives

About the Book :

This book innovatively brings together analyses of the ancient environmental traditions and thoughts with contemporary issues from multidisciplinary perspectives. It provides desirable insights into environmental concerns; their developmental interfaces, agriculture, climate change, gender, health implications, education and curriculum with reference to environment from the developing world viewpoint.

Contents

Foreword

by Dr. Prithvish Nag

Vice-Chancellor: Mahatma Gandhi Kashi Vidyapith, Varanasi

Ex-Surveyor General of India; Ex-Director: NATMO; President: Geographical Society of India.

1.      Emergence of Environmental Concerns: Ravi S. Singh

2.      Ecospirituality in the Indian Tradition: Rana P. B. Singh    

3.      An Appraisal of Man-environment-development Relationship: N. C.  Jana                      

4.      Human Approaches to Environmental Understanding at Smallest Unit: Sudip Dey and Sushmita Paul

5.      Political Ecology of Climate Change: Bikramaditya K. Choudhary

6.      Climate Security and Geopolitics of Climate Change: Arun Kumar Tripathi

7.      Environmental Pollution and Human Health: J. K. Mishra

8.      Ecotourism: Pravin Singh Rana and P.J. Shyju

9.      Women and Environment: Swati Sucharita Nanda

10. Environmental Education in Schools: Mousumi Boral

11. Organic Farming and the Environmental Shield: Arti Singh

12. Towards Epilogue: Ravi S. Singh

About Author :

Ravi S. Singh (PhD) is Professor at the Department of Geography, Banaras Hindu University (Varanasi, UP), India. Prof. Singh has several international as well as national academic publications in reputed journals and research series, many of them cross-disciplinary, to his credit. His major publications include Paths of Development in Arunachal Pradesh (2005, NBC), Indian Geography: Perspectives, Concerns and Issues (ed. 2009, Rawat Publications), Indian Geography in the 21st Century: The Young Geographers Agenda (ed. 2009, CSP), and Environmental Concerns: The Third World Perspectives (ed. 2014, YS Books International). Associated with several prestigious academic and scientific bodies, he is currently Vice-President: The Indian Society of Spatial Science (Presidency University, Kolkata) and Secretary: The Institute of Indian Geographers (Pune) besides being on the advisory board of many academic journals. The main areas of his academic interest are geographical thought, geography education, social and cultural geography, and development geography.