Sustainable Development：Environment, Energy and Water Resources

This comprehensive volume on sustainable development provides an overview of challenges facing a world of diminishing natural resources and solutions based on worldwide trends towards developing standards for alternative energy and consumption models to meet future demands. The volume is divided into four sections covering principles of sustainable development, the environment, energy resources and water, and individual chapters address topics such as the economics and politics of sustainable development, and technological solutions, atmospheric pollution and climate change, nuclear energy and alternative fuels and managing water resources for human use and industry. Side bars, checklists, and tables, are provided throughout and many examples, especially those related to water issues, are drawn from Indian data collections. Roy is an environmental scientist and engineer. Annotation c2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Prof. M.K.Ghosh Roy, after obtaining his B.Tech.(Hons) in Naval Architecture from IIT, Kharagpur and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the Bombay University, worked for three decades in design and engineering, publishing large number of papers in India and abroad in the Transaction of the Royal Institution of Naval Architects, London and Japan. He served the industry in senior management, until he was invited to become a senior Professor at IIT Madras.