industrial ecology

Dangerous chemicals entering underground water Ecological imbalance Release of pollutant gases Release of radioactive rays causing health problems Increased salinity Reduced vegetatio..

Many industries such as goldmines, cement industry, iron ore mines, coal mines, bauxite mines have excavated the land to very deep layers to extract the ore. But most of them have never devised any method to cover up the excavations. Many such excavations have spread to several..

Forests are the most important resource of our globe. Naturally formed forests are found in such parts of globe - where the factors of plant growth have been ideal for several centuries. For this reason, they are mostly found in regions of high rainfall and regions of high altitude. The usefulness ..

As mentioned earlier man's intervention is causing drastic changes in the environmental systems of earth and disturbing its ecological balance. This disturbance gets compounded with the problem of population explosion in the world especially the developing countries. The rate per annum at..

>Edaphic resources include alluvial, black soil, red soil, laterite soil, desert soil and problematic soil Forest resources are useful to man in many ways Crop resources include all types of crops - whose cultivation has provided, food, fodder, clothing, industrial products to human being..

The Environment is everything which surrounds an organism and influences its life in many ways. It includes physical and biological components. The physical components of the environment are soil, water, air, light and temperature. These are termed as abiotic components. The plants and animals are ..

Presence of dangerous unnatural ingredeints causing imbalance in the ecosystems and health hazards to human beings and animals is called pollution. Pollution is mainly found in air, water, soil, food and sound. Major human activities like industries, agriculture, health care, tran..

Controlling the pollution has been a most challenging field for human civilization. Understanding the gravity and variety of pollution in different walks of life and studying their serious implications on human health, animal health, ecological problems, urban life style, and many managem..

One need to accept that human intervention has been very much a part of the forest landscape. The government has realized that enforcement of forest laws or policies and punishment of its contraventions, while ignoring the requirements of local people in the management of protected areas cannot be ..

which is defined as 'undesirable change in the physical, chemical or biological characteristics of air, water and land brought about by man's activities that may harmfully affect living organisms and other resources'. Based on the environmental component being polluted there are three types of..