About
the Book
This book focuses on natural resources,
eco-systems, environmental pollution, solid waste management and environmental
impact assessment in addition to the current environmental Issues. It is also
useful for undergraduate students of Science & Engineering and other
courses covered by all universities and colleges in India.
Features
· Review Questions are
provided at the end of each chapter
· Objective questions
and answers are added for each chapter
· A chapter on
Environmental Impact Assessment is added. |
About
the Author
Anji Reddy Mareddy did M.Sc, M.Tech,
(IIT, Kanpur),
and Ph.D. Having more than 22 years of teaching and research experience in
Remote Sensing and GIS, Geoinformatics for Environmental Management, is
presently working as Professor of Environmental Science and Technology in
Institute of Science and Technology, Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University
Hyderabad. He has been the principal guide for more than 130 academic projects
at P.G. level, 14 Ph.D projects and at
present guiding more than 14 Ph.D students.
He published and presented more than 107
research papers on various themes. He delivered expert lectures at University
of Illinois, Chicago, University of IOWA, University of Chicago, Urbana and
East West Centre, Honolulu in USA, Stockholm Water Company in Sweden,
International Centre for Environmental Management for Enclosed Coastal Seas,
Osaka, Kobe City in Japan, University of Florida, USA, Colorado University ,
Denver, USA and Universities of Philadelphia , USA and Asian Institute of
Technology, Thailand. By applying his rich academic experience in research, he
developed a new era in Geoinformatics in JNTU.
He
is an instrumental to start M.Tech programmes in Environmental Geomatics (EGI),
Environmental Management (EMT), M.Sc. in Environmental Science and Technology
(EST) and M.Sc. Geospatial Science and Technology (GST) in Centre for
environment.
He
authored few textbooks, namely, Remote Sensing and Geographical Information
System, Geoinformatics for Environmental Management, Digital Image Processing
and Environmental Science and Technology published by us. He also edited the
five proceeding volumes of International Conference on Environmental
Management.
His outstanding contribution in
Environmental problem solving, pollution control, health and safety, GIS and
Remote sensing applications for water quality, transportation planning,
assessment of sedimentation distribution pattern, EIA, Socio- economic
development through scientific means
stood him not only a distinguished Professor in JNTU but also at
National and International level. |
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