This book provides a comprehensive knowledge about man and environment, and their inter-relationship. It has been written to make the subject more comprehensive and complete according to the needs of people living in the materialized technological world. It includes the study of human pollution which is the root cause of all undesirable activities, human value crisis, and environmental degradation. It tries to study the environmental pollution and human pollution and their impacts on the present as well as future generations. It is an earnest attempt which would take the reader to the world of modern socio-economic environmental problems and develop those knowledge, skills, and awareness which would enable him to keep himself and the environment free from anti-social activities and environmental degradation.
This book covers the prescribed syllabus of Indian universities for degree courses in Environmental Education. It provides an exhaustive treatment of the subject in a very lucid and cogent manner, so that the students and the teachers of different courses can grasp the subject completely and clearly. Also, concepts such as human pollution, social cancer, E-philosophy, vicious circle of complicated mind, and disguised democracy have been introduced and interpreted to highlight various social evils. The book contains 22 chapters along with an Environmental Calendar listing the important dates and events related to the environment, a Glossary of important words and terms, and finally a list of references.
This book is not only meant for the students studying environmental education in their graduate and postgraduate levels, but also an effective tool for carving and mending them to mound and shape the human society and the environment better. It will be of great use to the teachers, researchers, and students at different levels.
Dr. M. Raghavan did his Ph.D. from the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University. He joined the Indian Economic Service (IES) and occupied several responsible positions in the Ministries of Agriculture, Rural Development, Surface Transport, Finance, the ILO-Desk of the Ministry of Labour, Planning Commission, and the Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices (CACP). His last assignment in government was as Director, CACP. After quitting the service, he returned to teaching career and taught Managerial Economics, Business Environment, and Statistical Methods to MBA students in the Institute of Technology, Cannanore University and KMCT School of Business, Calicut University. Before joining the IES, he was a lecturer in the post-graduate department of economics at the Zamorin Guruvayurappan College, Calicut. In 2010, he served as a member of the Research Review Committee constituted by the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR).
Several of his research papers were published in the Economic and Political Weekly, Social Scientist and The Hindu Business Line. From 2011 to 2015, he was engaged in the preparation of a monograph on famines in British Malabar based mainly on archaeological information. It has since been brought out with the title State Failure and Human Miseries."
