The environmental destruction that has followed is making the lives of people humanly impossible, particularly of women who have to fetch daily household needs from the immediate environment. To survive, the poor often have no alternative but to turn upon the very environment with which they lived in full harmony in the immediate past.
The key question for expert and lay person is: can lands support such a large and growing population? This is where the ‘carrying capacity’ comes in. It is the number of people or animals that an area of land can support on a sustainable basis.

Population growth has adverse impact on environment due to excessive encroachment on nature. Various crucial issues pertaining to topic are described in this book. The entire information is organized under nine chapter namely— introduction; environmental health; dams; world population growth; consequences of crowding; ecology and man; ecology of populations; population interaction; and energy resources etc.

The impact of population on various domains of environment in reality, could be different. In a few cases, the impact would be more deleterious than the predictions made through the EIA study. This may be due to various extraneous climatologically and environmental factors not attributable to the particular industry. The regulatory mechanism of environmental compliance is gradually becoming more and more comprehensive. The new regulations and standards are being stipulated consequent to a better understanding of the environmental implications, at such a pace that, it would soon render the existing system archaic.
Various methods and practices of pollution monitoring and control are dealt with exhaustively in this book. The succinct information contained in various topics likes—Air pollution monitoring; air pollution control; Ganga action plan; waste water treatment; water supply management; industrial pollution abatement; environmental audit will prove informative and useful to experts and laymen alike.

Population is an interacting, or potentially interacting group of individuals usually of the same species. Some of the most important aspects of population structure are population size, density, spatial distribution age and sex rates, breeding structure and social organization. Population sizes may vary from a few individuals to millions of individuals. The population of whooping cranes (Gurus American) numbers about 50 individuals a single group of birds barely cloning to existence. Other rare and endangered species around the world also represent very small populations.
Population and community ecology is in its all dimensions is discussed in this book. Main themes elaborately dealt with are: Ecology of populations; Social behavior; Population growth; The psycho-social consequences of crowding; community ecology; and man’s future etc.

What is the carrying capacity of the earth for man? In other words, what are the limits of the life support capabilities of the earth in terms of human population?  Are the behaviorists’’ concern. What are the tolerance levels of man to the pressures generated by his own societies? In other words, if man is his own worst enemy, does this lead to his self destruction?

The impact of population on environment is competently assessed in this book. The major topics X-rayed pros and cons are: Introduction; population interaction; population growth; crowding; population characteristics; population policy; and future of man etc.