Environmental Issues and Challenges

• Provides an easy-to-understand instructional material, without diluting the basic concepts and principles from social sciences perspective. The book contains interesting and appropriate case studies to further elucidate the issues and facilitate the understanding of the readers.• Describes the different components of the environment including the realms of air (atmosphere), water (hydrosphere), land (lithosphere) and life (biosphere) by defining the environment and emphasizing its multidisciplinary nature.• Includes discussion on some of the landmark international agreements for mitigating climate change and ozone layer depletion.• Provides an overview of the control mechanisms, policy framework and a suite of legal instruments to prevent and control a plethora of environmental problems to keep pollution within safe limit.• The book will be useful to the departments of environmental studies, environmental science, sociology, political science, and public administration. This book will also be an indispensable companion to environmentalist, wildlife conservationists, policy makers and general readers interested to understand more about environment and wildlife.