Environmental degradation and measures for its mitigation with special reference to India's agricultural sector
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31/12/2008
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Indian Journal of Agricultural Economics
The term, 'environment', has many connotations. In this paper, by 'environment' we mean the natural environment, which encompasses all the biotic and abiotic elements that form our surroundings, that is, the air, the land, the water, the forests, the seas. In India, more than three-fourths of its population depends directly for their livelihoods on activities based on natural resources and the remainder of the population relies on these resources indirectly for food, fuel, industrial output and recreation.