ISBN: 9788190179966    Publisher: Isha Books Year of publishing: 2003     Format:  Hardback No of Pages: 286        Language: English

Over the years, man has been thoughtlessly and indiscriminately exploiting the gifts of nature without a thought for the future which has resulted in the form of natural without a thought for the future which as resulted in the form of natural disasters like famine, flood etc. and the industrialization has caused the pollution of air water and soil. In the context of increasing incidence of health hazards caused by ever increasing loads of chemical pollutants let off into the environment, the importance of control measures for environmental protection has rightly assumed great significance. This book explains the necessity to carefully consider the potential detrimental effects on health and the environment of hazardous chemicals. It calls people to take appropriate actions at the local, national or international level for their environmentally sound management. It is hoped that they will leave for their children a better environmental legacy than the one we left for them.
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Sujata K. Dass was born in a family of bureaucrats and social workers on July 19, 1965 in Kabul, Afghanistan. She joined Queens College of the City University of the New York for B.S. degree. She joined King George Medical College, Lucknow and completed her MBBS in 1988-89 and thereafter, completed her Ph.D in Medicine. She was Clinical Observer/Visiting Fellow in the Department of Cardiovascular Surgery at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Research Institute (Memorial Hospital) of Cornell University, New York during 1991-92. Dr. Sujata was a Research Fellow at The New York Presbyterian Hospital-Medical College of Cornell University. She was appointed Dr. B.R.Ambedkar Chair Professor at the young age of 36 years. She is a Visiting Faculty/Fellow at Dr. B.R.Ambedkar Center for Biomedical Research, University of Delhi since 1997 and currently working as Research Scientist in the Department of Medicine, V.P. Chest Institute , University of Delhi.
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