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1. An Overview on Environmental Degradation and Mitigation

verfasst von : Vijay P. Singh, Shalini Yadav, Krishna Kumar Yadav, Ram Narayan Yadava

Erschienen in: Environmental Degradation: Challenges and Strategies for Mitigation

Verlag: Springer International Publishing

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Environmental degradation is directly linked with environmental quality deterioration and depletion of resources. It is the world's most pressing problem and has created many challenges to humans, plants, animals, wildlife, and their habitats due to injudicious use of natural resources like unlimited burning of fossil fuel, water and soil pollution, and emission of harmful gases. The environmental degradation may be caused due to the several factors including pollution, climate, climate change, waste disposal, deforestation, desertification, and overpopulation. Worldwide, many policy initiatives have been born to develop strategies for mitigating and adapting to regulate and minimize restoring environmental degradation. The present chapter aims at (1) presenting an overview of environmental degradation to better understand this global issue, (2) describing different types of environmental degradation, (3) explaining several causes of environmental degradation in detail, and (4) discussing the impacts of environmental degradation and their mitigation measures briefly.

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Titel: An Overview on Environmental Degradation and Mitigation
verfasst von: Vijay P. Singh
Shalini Yadav
Krishna Kumar Yadav
Ram Narayan Yadava
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Buch: Environmental Degradation: Challenges and Strategies for Mitigation
Print ISBN: 978-3-030-95541-0

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-95542-7

Copyright-Jahr: 2022
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-95542-7_1