Journal of the Association of Engineers, India

Snehangshu K. Das Gupta ¹

Affiliations
1 Rural Housing Wing, (Eastern Zone) B. E. College, IN

Abstract

Environmental hygiene and sanitation is an integral part of the Social Ecological Process:
All organisms consciously or unconsciously seek to improve their habitations and positions. The remaking and control of the habitat are significantly truer of man than those of other lower animals. Human settlements are the result of interaction between the activities of man aiming at preservation, perpetuation, growth and development on the one hand and the environmental odds on the other.

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Snehangshu K. Das Gupta ¹

Affiliations
1 Rural Housing Wing, B. E. College, Howrah, IN

Abstract

Success of any technological efforts or financial investments towards modernisation of the environment and rural sanitation of Indian villages cannot be achieved without orienting the attitude, behaviour and outlook of the villagers concerned in favour of accepting the said efforts for modernisation. Thus the problems are largely linked with the psycho-social domain and as such it should be examined from the view point of social ecology i.e., the individuals in relation to the existing socialised habitat.

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