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Changing Environment: Where Will This Lead to?

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The term “environment” is new in many languages. In French, its origin goes back to twelfth century verb “environner”. In other languages new words were created during 1960s to express the concept: “Umwelt” in German, “Paryavaran” in Hindi, “Parisara” in Kannada, “Milieu” in Dutch, “Medio ambiente” in Spanish, “Meio ambiente” in Portuguese, “Al.biah” in Arabic, “kankyo” in Japanese, etc. Approximately 40 years ago, a large part of the world at the same time discovered a new phenomenon which posed a major challenge to modern society.

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  1. Biomedical Waste Section, Karnataka State Pollution Control Board, Church Street, 560001, Bangalore, India

    Ramesha Chandrappa

  2. Risk Management Solutions India, A-7, RMSI, Sector 16, 201301, Noida, India

    Sushil Gupta

  3. School of Environmental Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Dehli, 110067, India

    Umesh Chandra Kulshrestha

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Chandrappa, R., Gupta, S., Kulshrestha, U.C. (2011). Changing Environment: Where Will This Lead to?. In: Coping with Climate Change. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-19674-4_3

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