Encyclopaedia on Environmental Guidelines, Policies, and Action Plans covers a plethora of related issues and presents them in a sensible manner, so that it becomes user-friendly. The readers will find this encyclopaedia very useful in understanding the contemporary national and global green guidelines, policies and action plans, and make selective as well as overall use of resource materials presented therein. The area of concern of this is vast enough to include the socio-economic dimensions of the environment; issues related to conservation and management of resources for development and environmental protection and restoration; in addition to the details about various means of implementation, strategies and policy- planning initiatives. The broader areas which have been touched in this encyclopaedia include the ones related to sustainable development, poverty- environment nexus, role of market factors in environmental conservation, protection of atmosphere, land- degradation prevention, combating deforestation and desertification, preventing biodiversity depletion, environmentally sound biotechnology, fresh water and marine pollution prevention and conservation of water- bodies, sound management of toxic chemicals, hazardous wastes, and radioactive wastes and nuclear matters including related dangerous products and their transportation and traffic sound management of solid wastes and sewage, environmental financial resources and mechanisms etc. Others focus on wildlife management and protection of wilderness and protected areas networks; protection of coasts, islands, estuaries, rivers and marine ecosystems; prevention of acid rain, global wanning/green- house effect, ozone depletion, sea-level rise, climate change, famine, drought; management of natural, cultural and archeological heritage sites; etc.
