Technical terms used in this book are explained in a simple language with examples from day-to-day life. After going through this text, the reader gets new, valid, contextual knowledge about the natural world and our impacts on it but this knowledge creates a responsibility to get involved in the solution of environmental problems which have been created by us.

In this book, scientific principle as well as some insights into the to social, political and economic systems that impact out environment are discussed in a lucid manner.

This text book deals with various concepts of environmental studies, recently introduced as a paper by University Grant Commisssion at undergraduate level for all discipline as well as for the general aspirants of environment and ecology. Every concept included in this text has been explained in a lucid manner by using simple language. Wherever necessary, simple diagrams have been introduced to make the concpets illustrative. In this book, scientifice principle as well as some insights into the social, political and economic systems that impact our environment are discussed in a lucid manner. The matter included in this text has been selected from standard text. However, there are some concepts which are not being covered by these texts. The matter for these have been taken from various enivornmental web sites on internet. The authors expect that the students should do search on internet to get recently introduced concepts on environmental studies.