Environmental Degradation Causes And Remediation Strategies
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Environmental Degradation: Causes and Remediation Strategies
Author: Vinod Kumar
language: en
Publisher: Agro Environ Media, Publication Cell of AESA, Agriculture and Environmental Science Academy,
Release Date: 2020-03-10
The compliance of this book is helpful for academicians, researchers, students, as well as other people seeking the relevant material in current trends of studies on the topic of environmental degradation.
Environmental Degradation
The earth is a dynamic arrangement of synergistic and interrelated systems that has throughout its existence experienced cataclysmic and devastating events. The earth has had long periods of ice and snow to mass extinctions and occasional hothouse loads of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and the oceans. The main difference between then and now is that this latest dynamic period is primarily if not solely anthropogenic in nature. At the same time, we have put in place a global economic system that sees the earth as a cornucopia of infinite natural resources to be exploited with little regard for the environmental and social consequences of such actions. Modern society has witnessed an alienation from the natural world with consumers losing a sense of the relationship between the consumption of things and consequent environmental degradation. Chapter One summarizes the nature of urban environmental degradation, and its ideological and institutional roots. Chapter Two examines the relationship between cultures and environmental use within various adaptive strategies for exploiting natural resources. Chapter Three focuses on illegal dump sites as degraded landscape elements. Chapter Four evaluates the extract and translocate natural radionuclides by volunteer plants that grow under phosphogypsum stack as a potential phytoremediation technique. Chapter Five concludes with a review of an island biogeography of vultures and environmental variation in the Caribbean.
The Cost of Environmental Degradation
Author: Lelia Croitoru
language: en
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Release Date: 2010-07-16
How much is a cleaner environment worth? For policy makers, that question used to go largely unanswered. Many economic activities cause environmental degradation, entailing real costs to the economy and to people's welfare. Knowing the extent of these costs is crucial for identifying a country's main environmental priorities and allocating appropriate funds for environmental protection. Over the past decade, the World Bank has initiated a systematic effort to measure the costs of environmental degradation in the Middle East and North Africa, shedding new light on their magnitude and on the need for policy changes. In many cases, these costs were found to be surprisingly large. 'The Cost of Environmental Degradation: Case Studies from the Middle East and North Africa' brings together the best case studies of this program and summarizes their policy impacts at the national and regional levels. The case studies quantify monetarily the annual damage due to environmental degradation and express these estimates as percentages of the countries' gross domestic product. The studies use the most recent environmental valuation methods to estimate the economic costs resulting from air pollution, water degradation, deforestation, and land degradation. Uniquely, the book dedicates a case study to value the costs of environmental degradation resulting from an oil spill and demolition waste in times of conflict. The studies then illuminate the concrete implications on policy, investments, and institutions for the respective nations. This book will be of interest to policy makers, nongovernmental organizations, and academic and research institutions.