Synopsis This book is about the various environmental problems and hazards that our planet faces today and possible solutions that could be evolved and taken up to solve them, if not to remove them completely, at least to lessen their deleterious impact upon humankind. A wealth of individual experience and specific solutions are available, and these have been explained and discussed at length. The need for stringent overall environmental and economic action to ensure that polluters are not only prevented form further polluting the environment but also made to pay for the damage they have caused is stressed. The major improvements in costs and effectiveness of techniques which lower levels of pollution and waste from industrial process are taken up in detail. An understanding of these processes is most important for both corporate strategy and public policy formation. Trends in the development and adoption of environmental technology are vividly brought out. As this book provides an extensive coverage, it would be most useful to students of environmental studies, teachers and academicians, social activists in the field of environment and environmental scientists.