Perception of Environmental Movement in Desert of Rajasthan: A Case Study of Churu District, Rajasthan

MM Sheikh¹* and Anju Ojha²

¹Associate Professor, Geography, Govt. Lohia College, Churu, Rajasthan, India
²Assistant Professor, Geography, Govt. Lohia College, Churu, Rajasthan, India

*Corresponding Author: MM Sheikh, Associate Professor, Geography, Govt. Lohia College, Churu, Rajasthan, India.

Received: May 20, 2021; Published: June 17, 2021

Abstract

All the natural functions of human being such as birth, growth, health and deaths are affected and determined by the natural environment in the same manner as the cases of other organisms but man being most developed and advanced animal, both physically and mentally and hence technologically, is capable of making substantial changes in natural environment so as to make it suitable for his own living. The role of most primitive biological or physical man in the functions of natural environmental system was fundamentally that at user of environmental resources and thus he played the role of a factor of the environment but as the skill and technology of man developed with cultural development his roles towards natural environment also changed progressively such as from user through modifier and changer to destroyer of the environment. Modern technological man has changed and is changing the environment for his vested interests to such an extent that even the very existence of human beings is threatened. There are a natural ecosystem and human ecological adaptation on the entire globe. But now a days mans is destroying this ecosystem for the name of modernization and development. To stop such type of manmade greed number of environmental movements took place to protect the environment and ecology. The paper describes the environmental movement perceptions among people. Because the environmental movement will began form the bottom to top. In other words, we can say any policy and rules cannot be effectively implements without public involvement.

Keywords: Perceptions; Ecosystem; Public Involvement; Environmental Movement

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Citation

Citation: MM Sheikh and Anju Ojha. “Perception of Environmental Movement in Desert of Rajasthan: A Case Study of Churu District, Rajasthan". Acta Scientific Agriculture 5.7 (2021): 25-32.

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