General Agriculture / Environmental Science/ Engineering
Environmental Science and Engineering Series (1 TO 12 VOLS)
Description
A few books in the history of mankind have been able to influence the thought and public policy all over the world. Silent Spring (1962) on environmental toxicology by American marine biologist and conservationist Rachel Carson is one such contribution. The global environmental movement as we see today is the legacy of the works such as Silent Spring which is considered as one of the most important contributions to Western literature even after five decades since its first publication. The book began with a fable for tomorrow over a fictional town which might easily be anywhere in the world as reproduced below: There was a strange stillness. The birds, for example—where had they gone? Many people spoke of them, puzzled and disturbed. The feeding stations in the backyards were deserted. The few birds seen anywhere were moribund; they trembled violently and could not fly. It was a spring without voices. On the mornings that had once throbbed with the dawn chorus of robins, catbirds, doves, jays, wrens, and scores of other bird voices there was now no sound; only silence lay over the fields and woods and marsh. Silent Spring by its forceful accounts awakened the world to the dangers of pollution, overpopulation, insecticides and chemical warfare, environmental changes and imbalance of nature emanating from human activities. Silent Spring brought a major shift in perception of the Western society. The society once defined by what it produced is now defined by the waste and pollution that it generates. The decades of 1960 and 1970 were significant historically for beginning of modern global environment movement. As scientific knowledge of the causes and consequences of environmental deterioration became more extensive and sophisticated, there was increasing concern among researchers, intellectuals and activists about the Earth’s ability to absorb the trash of human economic activity and to sustain human life. This concern contributed to the growth of grassroot environmental activities in a number of countries and the establishment of new environmental government/non-government organizations. Earth Day honoured every year on April 22 marks the birth anniversary of modern environmental movement in 1970.It is a natural outcome of this growing awareness and concern that environmental science which hardly appeared as a chapter in text books few decades back has now evolved in a separate branch of science drawing in people from multidisciplinary grounds of physics, chemistry, biology, engineering and medical science. Environmental science and engineering is a fast moving and continuously developing field. Vehicular emission regulations, industrial waste water discharge, air emissions and other environmental norms are getting real strict with time all around the world. Text books serve as excellent study resources to young students on fundamental topics and principles on which the practice of environmental science and engineering is grounded. Nevertheless, it is often not practical even for a bestselling author to incorporate emerging issues in text books at a regular interval in a rapidly changing field. Current series on environmental science and engineering is therefore, a timely effort to fill this vacuum between the text books covering fundamentals and the ongoing technological developments being carried by researchers in different laboratories across the world. To achieve this objective,Studium Press LLC USA has framedfollowing 12 volumes covering every aspect of vast and vivid field as Environmental Science and Engineering, which has been edited by leading academics and researchers from around the world along with Editor-In-Chief Prof.Dr.Bhola R Gurjar (I.I.T Roorkee, India). Volume 1: Sustainable Development Volume 2: Biodiversity and Conservation Volume 3: Air and Noise Pollution Volume 4: Water Pollution and Waste Water Treatment Volume 5: Solid Waste Management Volume 6: Toxicology Volume 7: Instrumentation, Modelling and Analysis Volume 8: Biodegradation and Bioremediation Volume 9: Environmental and Energy Management: Ethics, Laws and Policies Volume 10: Industrial Processing and Nanotechnology Volume 11: Soil Pollution and Phytoremediation Volume 12: Climate Change and Sustainable Technology Volume 1 delves into sustainable development with articles on sustainability indicators and assessment, environmental pollution and human health, sustainable public transportation systems, tourism adaptation to climate change in the lenses of sustainability, sustainability through management of mircoclimate parameters in urban environments during summer, reuse of solid wastes to produce ceramic wall tiles, potential threats to coastal environment, biofertilizers, biopesticide, biogreases, phytoremediation and nanotechnology and climate sustainability. Volume 2 covers articles on biodiversity and conservation such as biodiversity from metagenomics to industrial enzymes, biodiversity and species concepts, diversity and distribution of earthworms in relation to altitude and soil factors in Kerala, diversity towards seeds morphology, anatomy and physiology for endemic species in Madagascar, conservation of medicinal plants, endophytic fungal diversity in medicinal plants, carumcopticum herb for treatment of important human diseases, bioactivity of mushrooms, vascular flora of rocky outcrops in north-eastern Brazil, molecular diversity of fish based on DNA markers, threats to marine biodiversity in Arabian gulf, coral bleaching and migration and European union and Greek forestry. Volume 3 includes articles on air and noise pollution like air pollution monitoring, modelling and control, determination of representative air pollution sampling points in industrialized-urban areas, air pollution from automobiles and strategies for its control, air quality impact assessment of fluoride emissions from an aluminium smelter, experimental assessment of combustion noise emission during acceleration and starting of a turbocharged diesel engine, environmental dimensions of fly ash released from thermal power plants, application of long-memory model underoutliers to air pollution levels, disinfection of air and surfaces in medicine with aerosolization and use of electro oxygenated water, analysis of the cigarette smokes by high resolution mass spectrometry, fire-fighters occupational exposure to airpollutant levels and potential health effects, acoustic of sound propagation, health effects and mitigative measures of noise pollution,air pollution and impacts followed by effects of air pollution in leaves of urban trees. Volume 4 on water pollution and wastewater treatment presents articles on water quality parameters,fate of the freshwater in Asia, water pollution types and treatment, groundwater pollution, marine pollution, innovative technologies for treatment of municipal wastewater, hybrid metal oxide semiconductors for wastewater treatment, microorganisms in wastewater purificationprocesses and reuse of water and sludge,microalgae utilization in wastewater treatment, ultrafiltration behaviour of organic mixtures simulating sweetwater solutions, treatment of tequila vinasse in inverse fluidized bed bioreactor, processes of transformation and removal of metals in constructed wetlands for the treatment of effluents from metallurgical plants, sorption wastewater treatment from metal ions using modified phosphate dolomite, modified textile fibres for wastewater treatment, arsenic removal from industrial effluents through ferric arsenate precipitation, development of an integrated methodology for fouling control in membrane bioreactors, membrane bioreactor and osmotic membrane bioreactor for wastewater treatment, oil pollution of the northern Caspian, response of macrophytes and their role in constructed wetlands, low-cost activated carbon biosorbents for removal of toxic dyes from wastewater and recent advances in application of chitosan in biosorption of heavy metals from wastewaters. Volume 5 is entirely devoted to Solid Waste Management containing articles on municipal solid waste, management and disposal, methodological contributions and some empirical evidence, sources, pathways, toxicity and remediation of mercury in waste, e-scrap mining trajectories for development in Ghana, battery waste management, oil palm biomass management and pretreatment technologies for biofuel and bioproducts generation, sewage sludge disposal/reuse and its environmental impact, energy from municipal solid waste, pyrolysis for thermal treatment of waste and contaminated soil, efficiency, reliability and safety aspects of biogas production, purification and utilization, biodrying kinetic of sewage sludge, agro-industrial wastes as chemical textile auxiliaries, cost effective production of bioplastic(PHAs) from agricultural and industrial waste, the rare earth elements in coals and barren rocks in upper Silesian coal basin, economic techniques for management of radioactive wastes and solid waste management challenges in developing countries. Volume 6 is focussed on toxicology and the articles pertaining to this volume addresses issues related to toxicology, environmental fate and toxicology of pesticides, practical approaches towards pesticide degradation, pesticide transformation products as contaminants of water compartments, pesticide residue in agricultural and aquaculture products, pesticides classification and its impact on human and environment, solid waste from hospital and their toxic effects on aquatic organisms, nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs as contaminants for aquatic organisms, RP-HPLC based development and characterization of drugs, polyphenols in food and their potential effects, effects of commercial herbicides with glyphosate against amphibian and fishes, fighting human and animal parasites with photodynamic reactions involving chlorophyll derivatives, bone growth, oxidative stress and antioxidant responses to implantation of titanium plate, behavioural toxicity of diesel in estuarine mudwhelk of Sundarbans biosphere reserve of India, organophosphorus insecticides and organ toxicity, environmental toxins and neurodegeneration and recent approaches in biopesticides for pest control in agricultural crops. Volume 7 is devoted to instrumentation, modelling and analysis and includes articles on automation of analytical methods for environmental monitoring based on flow analysis techniques, automated microanalyzer with auto-calibration and wireless control for in-situ and on-line applications,geoprocessing for assessment of environmental contamination, radiochemical procedures applied to low-level environmental samples, novel technologies for decentralized lead detection and analysis, mineralogy and geochemistry of fly ashes from coal combustion, spectroscopic techniques in analysis of environmental pollutant, radiochemical neutron activation analysis for improving the analytical separations, current trends in biosensors for environmental applications, recent advances in biological devices and techniques, the concept, tools and applications of metagenomics, electrochemical techniques for rapid determination of pesticides residues, modelling of copper concentration variability in phytoremediated contaminated soils using combined neural network and Monte Carlo simulations and mathematical modelling of environmental problems. Volume 8 includes articles on biodegradation and bioremediation such as biodegradation mechanism, role of various enzymes of microbes in bioremediation, mechanistic issues of sono-biodegradation, renaissance of bioremediation degradation of environmental pollutants, biodeterioration and biodegradation of wood materials by fungi, bioremediation and reclamation of soils affected by acid mine drainage, shifting of microbial community and metabolism in bioleaching process, bioremediation of heavy metals, microbial bioleaching for recovery of metals from industrial waste, protein engineering for lignocellulose degradation, mechanism of soil-metal-microbe interaction and its implication on microbial phytoremediation, potential functions of marine microbial diversity to degrade xenobiotics, environmental biofouling and its control strategies, biological waste gas purification and recent developments in biodegradation of synthetic dyes by plant peroxidases. Volume 9 incorporates articles on environmental and energy management ethics, laws and policies like sustainable development, quality of life and resilience, general process and procedures for environmental impact assessment, environmental impact of alien species in marine ecosystems, the use of GIS in environmental impact assessment and environmental process modelling, methodological approach for risk analysis-based impact of flood protection object assessment in urban areas, energy and environmental management toward quality of urban life, energy sources, economic policies and sustainable technologies, environment friendly refrigeration system, energy and resources recovery in waste water treatment plants, integrated waste management in hospitality business, integrated nutrient management under semi-arid inceptisols in India, electricity generation mix and economic growth in France and oil rents, CO2 emissions and economic growth. Volume 10 refers to industrial processing and nanotechnology and includes articles on environmental pollution remediation using nanotechnology or nanomaterials, applications of membrane processes in wastewater treatment, functionalized nanocontainers and nanomaterials for waste water treatment, use of nanoparticles from biowastes and microbes in water treatment, engineering of iron-based magnetic nanoparticles for environmental remediation applications, environmental applications of semiconductor photocatalysis for reducing pollution, controlling the migration of fertilizer and pesticide through micro/nano networks, colour removal from synthetic wastewater of textile industry by pine waste biomaterial, engineering ralstoniaeutropha for chemical production, effect of operating parameters in degradation of phenol, benzene and cyanides in semi-industrial ozonation pilot plant, source and applications of microbial exopolysaccharide, future perspectives of biomimetic calcium-phosphate coating, industrial and commercial nanomedicine, application of nano-materials in radioactive waste management and environmental challenges of nanotechnology in subsurface. Volume 11 is concentrated on soil pollution and phytoremediation. This volume contains articles on major sources and types of soil pollutants, environmental monitoring of urban soils contamination, effect of soil amendments on the mobility and availability of potentially toxic trace elements in phytoremediated contaminated soils, behaviour of heavy metals in soils-distribution and mechanism of interaction with soil constituents, overview of phytoremediation, phytoremediation of heavy metals by catharanthusroseuslinn, phytoremediation and bioremediation of contaminated soils, phytoremediation for soil health improvement, phytoremediation of abandoned mining areas using native plant species, electrokinetic and electrochemical remediation of contaminated soils, levels assessment and origin study of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in organisms and sediments, adsorption of heavy metal cations on bentonite and bentonite/iron oxide composite, behaviour of flazasulfuron and tribenuron-methyl in organic amended soils, phytoremediation and bioremediation of Pb, Cu, Hg, Cd, Ni and Zn and current status of eco-friendly techniques for heavy metal toxicity removal from polluted soil and water. Volume 12 focuses on climate change and sustainable technology and includes articles on climatic impacts of aerosols, the catalytic conversion of greenhouse gases to produce bio-ethanol and biodiesel, remote sensing for environment and climate diagnostics, analysis of aridity in relation to climate and sustainability of cotton production in India, climate change-cause-impact, management and agricultural sustainability, sustainability indicators of the emergent agronomic practices, advances in the production of GM crops in context of climate change, land use change and climate change impacts in various agro-ecological settings in Western Ghats and coastal plains of South India, conceptual framework for psychological safety climate in construction, effective moisture conservation practices for mitigating soil water stress under changing climate, oleaginous microorganisms for biofuel development, microalgal culture as a sustainable technology for management of CO2 emissions, impact of climate change on water resources in India and climate change and global water crisis. A praiseworthy work on an exceptionally wide field of study like environmental science and engineering within a fixed time frame could only be produced through multiple authorships. With this foresight, leading researchers, practicing engineers and senior academicians from all around the world were invited to write about their particular area of expertise. The foremost requirement for these articles has been to give a reasonably complete up-to-date account of the current state of affairs in these areas and they should be understandable to students and non-professionals who, in every possibility, may not belong to the same level of knowledge and experience. The level of these articles is consistent with the degree of complexity inherent in each article, but is adaptable to non-professionals. All the authors have provided a complete list of references at the end of each article by means of which interested readers might find further in-depth information on the topic. A brief mention of facts and figures of this series is necessary here to give an idea of the stretch of the work and strength of the intellectuals associated with the preparation of this massive work over a period of two years. The series has 12 volumes containing 192articles covering around XXXX pages contributed by 517authors representing 45 countries of the world.The present multi-volume series on Environmental Science and Engineering is suitable foranyone with an engineering or science background. Since the series is intended for a wider readership, it will equally appeal to under graduate and post graduate students in basic sciences, engineering and technological courses, research scholars, scientists, civil/chemical/environmental engineers and managers and policy makers. The series not only aims to provide a comprehensive reference work on the environment, but also to serve as a brain tool to our readers for developing approaches to mitigate environmental pollution problems. If a reader can get just one good idea by reading over the material in this series to solve any of numerous pollution problems, then editors will feel satisfaction of doing a good job in editing this series. The editors with all humbleness welcome comments from their readers. Series editors express their gratitude to all contributing authors for their time and effort and for having patiently incorporating reviews and numerous queries and comments. The lengths of articles in the series vary considerably depending on the topic. Some of the articles have appearance of a small book. Their authors deserve special thanks for their painstaking efforts. The guidance and support of the learned referees and editorial team members and advisers is thankfully acknowledged. The editors are grateful to complete team of Studium Press for their untiring support during the entire duration of this endeavour. We hope and believe that this series of 12 volumes would make a significant contribution in the area of Environmental Science and Engineering.
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