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The term environment is defined in section 2 a of the Environment Protection Act 1986 of India as comprising the air land and water and it is the inter relationship that exists among and between water air land human plants microorganisms and property Environmental issues are one of the predominant challenges of the twenty first century These encompass global warming climate change natural resources including ozone depletion pollution toxic wastes loss of biodiversity acid rain deforestation agro chemicals and poverty to enumerate a few concerns Martens 2014 Tietenberg and Lewis 2016 These problems have also been intensified by rapid industrialization urbanization and population explosion In a study carried out by the United Nations of the most environmentally polluted countries India s ranking was a dismal seventh in the world United Nations Environment Programme 2011 It was revealed that although 17 of deaths in developed countries are attributable to environmental factors in developing countries a massive 25 of all deaths are due to such factors Narain 2012 Environmental factors such as deforestation land use and water resource management lead to estimated 42 of malaria infections occurring in Africa and Asia World Health Organisation 2010 A severe environmental and nuclear disaster in recorded human history was the earthquake followed by the tsunami and nuclear accident at Fukushima prefecture of Japan on the eleventh of March 2011 Morino et al 2011
