Integrated Waste Management: Trends, Policies, and Perspectives
About this ebook
Features:
- Introduces waste management, pollution, and toxicity profile of potentially toxic environmental contaminants and industrial wastes.
- Describes field studies on the application of microbes and plants in bio/phytoremediation of environmental contaminants/industrial wastes.
- Reviews eco-friendly remediation techniques such as phytoremediation, vermi-remediation, nano-remediation, and myco-remediation.
- Presents recent advances and challenges in bioremediation research and applications in environmental management.
- Details underlying tools and techniques for sustainable waste management and (nature-based) solutions in each chapter.
This book is aimed at graduate students and researchers in environmental engineering and waste management.
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About the author
Ali Mohd Yatoo (Ph.D.) pursued his M.Sc. (Environmental Science) from H.N.B. Garhwal (Central) University Uttarakhand and completed his Ph.D. (Environmental Science) from the University of Kashmir, India. He has more than 5 years of research experience and wide experience in waste valorization, waste and wastewater management, eco-toxicology, bioremediation, vermicomposting, composting, plant pathology, and organic farming.
Pankaj Kumar Gupta is a Ramanujan fellow, upholding one of the honored scientific positions at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Delhi, India. As a Ramanujan fellow, he has undertaken an exceptional project “Engineered Microbiome (E-Biome Project)”, a unique combination of microbiology, hydrogeology, and chemical sciences for restoration of polluted sites, funded by the SERB, Govt. of India. He is also an adjunct assistant professor at the University of Waterloo, Canada.
Rajeev Pratap Singh, works in an area of waste management and has worked on various kinds of waste i.e. fly ash, sewage sludge, tannery sludge, palm oil mill waste, contained water irrigation etc. He has many publications in reputed journals on waste management and similar topics. Dr Rajeev Pratap Singh has received several international awards, like – ‘Green Talent’ award from Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), Germany; Prosper.Net Scopus Young Scientist award, DST Young Scientist Award etc.
