CONTENTS OF THE BOOK

1. The Conservation and Loss in The Biodiversity of India

2. Global Warming and Climate Change

3. Environmental Impact Assessment

4. The Indoor Pollution

5. Acid Rain and its Effect on Vegetation

6. Nitrogen Dioxide Pollution on Vegetation

7. Sulfur Dioxide Pollution on Vegetation

8. Problems, Utilization and Characterization of Flyash

9. Plant Responses to Dust Pollution

10. Performance of Flyash for Growth of Plants

11. Air Pollution From Sponge Iron Factories and its Effect on Vegetation

12. Impact of Automobile Exhausts in Leaves of Resistant Trees on Polluted Roadsides

13. Foliar Phenol Content in Trees in Plastic Industrial Area

14. Foliar Ascorbic Acid Content in Trees in Plastic Industrial Area

15. Impact of Simulated Acid Rain on Tree Seedlings in Nursery Condition

16. Epiphytic Lichens As Bioindicators Of Air Pollution

17. Combating Population-burst vis-à-vis Climate-change with GM Products

18. Climate Change is a Determining Factor Today for Both Business and Politics

19. Few Important Biochemical Protocols used in Environmental Assays

20. Conclusion: You Cannot Stop Climate Change, But You May Change the Climate

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Dr. Rupnarayan Sett (DOB 12 Oct 1961) did his Maters in Zoology with specialization in Cytology and Molecular Genetics from the Burdwan University of West Bengal, after which he did teaching in high schools and served in a Hematology Research Society at Kolkata for two years. A NET qualified for two times, he completed Ph.D. in Molecular Cell Biology from Indian Institute of Chemical Biology (CSIR), Kolkata in 1993.

Dr. Sett joined as a Scientist with the Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education (Ministry of Environment and Forests, Government of India) in 1993, and is still continuing with the same parent organization. During his tenure as yet, he served at the Rain Forest Research Institute, Jorhat, Institute of Forest Productivity, Ranchi, and is continuing at the Tropical Forest Research Institute, Jabalpur.

In his career, Dr. Sett did his Postdoctoral Research at the University of Western Ontario, London, Canada during 1993-94 where he worked on protein phosphorylation. He was a Visiting Scientist at the State University of New York, Syracuse, NY, USA during 1998-99 where he worked on making of transgenic plants. He presented his work on pollution around the sponge iron factories in IUFRO Conference at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia during 2008.
Dr. R. Sett has more than 50 publications in National and International Journals to his credit and edited one book. He is currently engaged with works on research in the area of Environmental Biotechnology with special emphasis of Indian forestry species and National pollution issues.