This is a Hindi medium (हिन्दी माध्यम) book from McGraw Hill by Dr. Ravi P. Agrahari (Ph.D., IIT Delhi) — a courseware volume on Paryavaran, Krishi evam Aapda Prabandhan (पर्यावरण, कृषि एवं आपदा प्रबंधन), covering environment, agriculture and disaster management for UPSC and state civil services examinations. It is the 4th edition, includes 100+ previous years' questions and 75+ additional practice questions, and comes with digital courseware support. The entire book is written in Hindi in the Devanagari script.
Environment has become one of the highest-weighted areas of the UPSC prelims and one of the least well-served by standard textbooks, for a simple reason: it is a moving subject. Conventions, protocols, protected areas, species status, climate negotiations, national missions and legislation change from year to year, and the questions follow the changes. A candidate reading a general environmental science text is reading something that was accurate when written and is examined against what is true now.
Grouping agriculture and disaster management with it is not arbitrary. In the civil services syllabus these three sit together in practice — cropping patterns and food security connect to climate and water, disaster management connects to floods, droughts, cyclones and seismicity, and policy responses cut across all three. Questions frequently sit at those junctions rather than inside one topic, and a candidate who has prepared them from three separate books tends to hold them as three separate lists.
The question apparatus is what makes it a courseware rather than a textbook: 100+ PYQs to fix what the Commission actually asks and at what depth, and 75+ further questions for practice. It is best used alongside current affairs preparation, since this is the area where the current and the static are least separable.
Key Features:
Hindi medium book — complete content written in Hindi (Devanagari script)
Author: Dr. Ravi P. Agrahari (Ph.D., IIT Delhi)
Published by McGraw Hill
4th Edition
Courseware on Paryavaran, Krishi evam Aapda Prabandhan
For UPSC and state civil services examinations
100+ previous years' questions
75+ additional practice questions
Digital courseware support included
Covers ecology, biodiversity and conservation
Covers climate change, conventions, protocols and international negotiations
Covers pollution, environmental legislation and national missions
Covers agriculture — cropping patterns, food security, schemes and allied sectors
Covers disaster management — floods, droughts, cyclones, seismicity and policy
Three connected subjects prepared together rather than as separate lists
A high-weightage, fast-changing area where a current edition matters
Best used alongside current affairs preparation
मैकग्रा हिल द्वारा प्रकाशित तथा डॉ. रवि पी. अग्रहरि (पी-एच.डी., आईआईटी दिल्ली) द्वारा लिखित यह 'पर्यावरण, कृषि एवं आपदा प्रबंधन' कोर्सवेयर UPSC एवं राज्य सिविल सेवा परीक्षाओं हेतु तैयार किया गया है — चतुर्थ संस्करण, 100+ विगत वर्षों के प्रश्न तथा 75+ अतिरिक्त अभ्यास प्रश्नों सहित, साथ में डिजिटल कोर्सवेयर सुविधा। यह पूर्णतः हिन्दी भाषा एवं देवनागरी लिपि में है। पर्यावरण अब प्रारंभिक परीक्षा के सर्वाधिक भारांक वाले क्षेत्रों में है और साथ ही सबसे तेज़ी से बदलने वाला भी — अभिसमय, प्रोटोकॉल, संरक्षित क्षेत्र, प्रजातियों की स्थिति, जलवायु वार्ताएँ, राष्ट्रीय मिशन एवं विधान प्रतिवर्ष बदलते हैं, और प्रश्न इन्हीं परिवर्तनों का अनुसरण करते हैं, अतः संस्करण की नवीनता यहाँ निर्णायक है। कृषि एवं आपदा प्रबंधन का इसी के साथ होना भी उपयुक्त है, क्योंकि फसल प्रणाली एवं खाद्य सुरक्षा जलवायु व जल से, तथा आपदा प्रबंधन बाढ़, सूखा, चक्रवात एवं भूकम्प से जुड़ा है — प्रश्न प्रायः इन्हीं संधि-बिंदुओं पर पूछे जाते हैं।
