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This book provides a comprehensive knowledge about man and environment, and their inter-relationship. It has been written to make the subject more comprehensive and complete according to the needs of people living in the materialized technological world. It includes the study of human pollution which is the root cause of all undesirable activities, human value crisis, and environmental degradation. It tries to study the environmental pollution and human pollution and their impacts on the present as well as future generations. It is an earnest attempt which would take the reader to the world of modern socio-economic environmental problems and develop those knowledge, skills, and awareness which would enable him to keep himself and the environment free from anti-social activities and environmental degradation. This book covers the prescribed syllabus of Indian universities for degree courses in Environmental Education. It provides an exhaustive treatment of the subject in a very lucid and cogent manner, so that the students and the teachers of different courses can grasp the subject completely and clearly. Also, concepts such as human pollution, social cancer, E-philosophy, vicious circle of complicated mind, and disguised democracy have been introduced and interpreted to highlight various social evils. The book contains 22 chapters along with an Environmental Calendar listing the important dates and events related to the environment, a Glossary of important words and terms, and finally a list of references. This book is not only meant for the students studying environmental education in their graduate and postgraduate levels, but also an effective tool for carving and mending them to mound and shape the human society and the environment better. It will be of great use to the teachers, researchers, and students at different levels.