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© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Rukhsana et al. (eds.), Habitat, Ecology and Ekistics, Advances in Asian
Human-Environmental Research, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49115-4_1
Chapter 1
Habitat, Ecology and Ekistics:
An Overview
Rukhsana, Anwesha Haldar, Asraful Alam, and Lakshminarayan Satpati
1.1 Introduction
Anthropocene (Adetona and Layzell 2019), the present era of human-induced
global change, has been witnessing augmented technological development to meet
the ever-increasing demand for goods and services to satisfy human comfort, and
thereby alteration of the earth’s natural setup has become irreversibly distressing.
Keeping in view the importance of various issues such as global warming, drought,
flood, population explosion, distorted urbanization, shortage of energy, water scarcity, soil degradation, unsustainable agriculture, etc., this edited volume entitled
‘Habitat, Ecology and Ekistics Case Studies of Environment-Human Interactions in
India’ has been planned to include the contemporary burning issues before the policy makers and researchers to find effective solutions to tide over the crises.
Human groups and societies establish and maintain viable relationships with
their habitat through collective mechanisms that stem from their anthropos and generate a system of relations and networks rather than independent action. A habitat is
a region or place or an environment where an organism makes its home. Habitat
Rukhsana
Department of Geography, Aliah University, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
A. Haldar
Department of Geography, East Calcutta Girls’ College, West Bengal State University,
Kolkata, India
Department of Geography, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
e-mail: ahgeog_rs@caluniv.ac.in
A. Alam (*)
Department of Geography, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
L. Satpati
Professor, Department of Geography, UGC-HRDC, University of Calcutta, Kolkata,
West Bengal, India
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Rukhsana et al. (eds.), Habitat, Ecology and Ekistics, Advances in Asian
Human-Environmental Research, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49115-4_1
Chapter 1
Habitat, Ecology and Ekistics:
An Overview
Rukhsana, Anwesha Haldar, Asraful Alam, and Lakshminarayan Satpati
1.1 Introduction
Anthropocene (Adetona and Layzell 2019), the present era of human-induced
global change, has been witnessing augmented technological development to meet
the ever-increasing demand for goods and services to satisfy human comfort, and
thereby alteration of the earth’s natural setup has become irreversibly distressing.
Keeping in view the importance of various issues such as global warming, drought,
flood, population explosion, distorted urbanization, shortage of energy, water scarcity, soil degradation, unsustainable agriculture, etc., this edited volume entitled
‘Habitat, Ecology and Ekistics Case Studies of Environment-Human Interactions in
India’ has been planned to include the contemporary burning issues before the policy makers and researchers to find effective solutions to tide over the crises.
Human groups and societies establish and maintain viable relationships with
their habitat through collective mechanisms that stem from their anthropos and generate a system of relations and networks rather than independent action. A habitat is
a region or place or an environment where an organism makes its home. Habitat
Rukhsana
Department of Geography, Aliah University, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
A. Haldar
Department of Geography, East Calcutta Girls’ College, West Bengal State University,
Kolkata, India
Department of Geography, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
e-mail: ahgeog_rs@caluniv.ac.in
A. Alam (*)
Department of Geography, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
L. Satpati
Professor, Department of Geography, UGC-HRDC, University of Calcutta, Kolkata,
West Bengal, India