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Contents
Part I Habitat and Environmental Issues of Human Concerns
1 Habitat, Ecology and Ekistics: An Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Rukhsana, Anwesha Haldar, Asraful Alam,
and Lakshminarayan Satpati
2 Contemporary Environmental Issues – The Indian Perspective . . . . 11
Pradip K. Sikdar and Soumyajit Basu
3 Rainfall Insight in Bangladesh and India:
Climate Change and Environmental Perspective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Tapash Mandal, Jayanta Das, A. T. M. Sakiur Rahman,
and Piu Saha
4 Habitat Linkages for Asian Elephants
in Central Indian Landscape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
C. S. Abhijitha, G. Areendran, Krishna Raj, Pamposh Bhat, and
Mehebub Sahana
5 Environmental Pollution and Municipal
Solid Waste Management in India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Mithun Ray, Avaya Chandra Mohapatra, Suman Das,
Asraful Alam, and Biman Ghosh
6 Assessment of the Carbon Footprint Across
Urban Households in Kolkata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Rukhsana and Md Firojuddin Molla