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General principles of environmental law: 1. What is environmental law? 2.

Environmental values and environmental law. 3.

Sources of environmental law. 4.

International law and environmental protection. 5.

The European community and the environment. 6.

The administration of environmental law and policy. 7.

The regulation of environmental protection. 8.

Access to environmental information. 9.

The enforcement of environmental law. 10.

Private law and environmental protection. II.

Sectoral coverage of environmental law: 11. Town and country planning.

12. Environmental impact assessment.

13. Integrated pollution control.

14. Air pollution and air quality.

15. Statutory nuisance.

16. Noise.

17. Waste management.

18. Contaminated land.

19. Water pollution and water quality.

20. Disposal of waste to sewers.

21. The conservation of nature.

22. Landscape management.

Bibliography. Index.

"Environmental law is one of the most rapidly expanding areas of law. It is also one of the fastest changing.

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This book investigates the ways in which environmental changes, often the result of human actions, have caused historical trends in human societies. This process has happened in every historical period and in every part of the inhabited earth.

The book is organized into ten chapters. The main chapters follow a chronological path through the history of mankind, in relationship to ecosystems around the world.

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Introduction. 2.

Natural resources. 3.

Biosphere. 4.

Population ecology and community ecology. 5.

Biodiversity. 6.

Spheres of earth. 7.

Environmental pollution. 8.

Agricultural and industrial pollution. 9.

Waste management and recycling. 10.

Environmental impact assessment and environmental protection. Glossary.

Subject index. "This book is designed to meet the needs of students who enroll for ecology and environmental science.

A vast literature on this subject is available but this book is a single volume discussion covering all the aspects of ecology and environment. This book is a current and comprehensive, yet not encyclopedic, intended for an introductory audience.

Much effort has taken to provide all possible information and the subject is discussed in multiple angles to cater the diverse interests of the reader. This book is divided into eleven chapters covering ecology, ecosystem, bio-diversity, spheres of earth, environmental pollution, wastes management, environmental laws, impact assessment, environmental agencies and environmental organization.

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The role of information technology (IT) control and audit has become a critical mechanism for ensuring the integrity of information systems (IS) and the reporting of organization finances to avoid and hopefully prevent future financial fiascos such as Enron and WorldCom. Global economies are more interdependent than ever and geopolitical risks impact everyone.

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Multidisciplinary nature of environmental studies. 2.

Renewable and non-renewable resources. 3.

Forest resources. 4.

Water resources. 5.

Mineral resources. 6.

Food resources. 7.

Energy resources. 8.

Land resources. 9.

Role of an individual in conservation of natural resources. 10.

Equitable use of resources for sustainable life style. 11.

Introduction to ecosystems. 12.

Ecosystems: types, characteristics, structures and functions. 13.

Biodiversity and its conservation. 14.

Environmental pollution causes, effects and control. 15.

Air pollution (causes, effects and control). 16.

Water pollution (causes, effects and control). 17.

Soil pollution. 18.

Marine and coastal pollution. 19.

Noise pollution. 20.

Thermal pollution. 21.

Radiation and radioactive pollution. 22.

Solid waste management. 23.

Role of an individual in prevention of pollution. 24.

Pollution and natural disasters (nuclear accidents). 25.

Disaster management. 26.

Social issues of environment. 27.

Global warming and climatic changes. 28.

Wasteland reclamation and management. 29.

Consumerism and waste products. 30.

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Still there are many species of green algae that are capable of growing in terrestrial and subaerial conditions. Their body organization may vary from unicellular to colonial forms, tubular to filamentous, leafy to siphonaceous and pseudoparenchymatous to heterotrichous type.

Most of them having cellulosic cell wall and uninucleate to multinucleate chloroplasts. In the cellular pigment content, chlorophyll is predominant and starch is the reserve food.

In Bangladesh, except for the work of Kundu (1929, 1934-35), Banerjee (1935), De (1939) and Fritsch (1945) no other investigation was carried out on algae, particularly after 1945. The reason for such poor record on algae in Eastern Bengal was due to lack of interested (less)

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