Biochar in Agriculture for Achieving Sustainable Development Goals

Table of Contents

Part I Introduction 1. Agricultural waste-derived biochar for environmental management 2. Biochar and sustainable development goals

Part II Biochar production and tunable properties 3. Biochar and its potential to increase water, trace element, and nutrient retention in soils 4. Biochar for carbon sequestration and environmental remediation in soil 5. Hydrochar and activated carbon materials from P- and N-rich biomass waste for environmental remediation and bioenergy application 6. The remediation potential of biochar derived from different biomass for typical pollution in agricultural soil 7. Biochar production from lignocellulosic and nonlignocellulosic biomass using conventional and microwave heating 8. Biochar soil application: soil improvement and pollution remediation

Part III Biochar for sustainable agriculture and food production 9. Biochar for clean composting and organic fertilizer production 10. Mineral-enriched biochar fertilizer for sustainable crop production and soil quality improvement 11. Effects of biochar on the environmental behavior of pesticides 12. Biochar nanoparticles: interactions with and impacts on soil and water microorganisms 13. Functionalized biochars for the (im) mobilization of potentially toxic elements in paddy soils under dynamic redox conditions: a case study 14. The role of mineral compositions in biochar stability and reactivity 15. Biochar production and modification for environmental improvement 16. The impact of biochar on nutrient supplies in agricultural ecosystems 17. Utilization of biochar to mitigate the impacts of potentially toxic elements on sustainable agriculture

Part IV Biochar for Environmental Improvement in Farmland 18. Biochar for remediation of alkaline soils contaminated with toxic elements 19. Thallium pollution in farmland soils and its potential amendment by biochar-based materials 20. Effect of biochar on the emission of greenhouse gas in farmland 21. Biochar for nutrient recovery from source-separated urine 22. Influence of biochar on soil biology in the charosphere 23. Biochar for sustainable immobilization of potentially toxic elements in contaminated farmland 24. Sequential biochar systems in a circular economy

Part V Biochar for circular bioeconomy and clean energy for sustainable agriculture 25. Production of biochar using sustainable microwave pyrolysis approach 26. Biochar electrocatalysts for clean energy applications 27. Engineered biochar as a potential adsorbent for carbon dioxide capture 28. Biochar: A sustainable solution for the management of agri-wastes and environment 29. Biochars' potential role in the remediation, revegetation, and restoration of contaminated soils 30. Renewable energy, cleaner environments, and sustainable agriculture from pyrolysis and hydrothermal carbonization of residuals

Authors

Daniel C.W. Tsang Professor and MSc Program Leader, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong; Pao Yue-Kong Chair Professor, State Key Laboratory of Clean Energy Utilization, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China. Prof. Tsang is a leading scientist in waste-to-resource technology, hazardous waste treatment, and carbon capture and utilization. Over the years, he has published more than 500 peer-reviewed papers in the top 10% of journals and has been invited to deliver keynote speeches or to chair seminars at international conferences. He was also awarded as a 2021 Highly Cited Researcher (Clarivate Analytics) for both Engineering and Environment and Ecology, with his professional contributions being recognized by local and international communities. He serves as Associate Editor for Science of the Total Environment, Critical Reviews in Environmental Science & Technology, Journal of Environmental Management, Journal of Hazardous Materials. Yong Sik Ok Full Professor and Director, Korea Biochar Research Center, Korea University

Chair and Program Director, Sustainable Waste Management Program, Association of Pacific Rim Universities (APRU)

Co-President, International ESG Association (IESGA). Dr. Ok is a full professor and global research director of Korea University, Seoul, Korea. He has published over 900 research papers and books, 92 of which have been ranked as Web of Science ESI top papers (90 have been selected as "Highly Cited Papers� (HCPs), and two as "Hot Papers�). He has been a Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher (HCR) since 2018 in Cross Field, Environment and Ecology, and Engineering. In 2019, he became the first Korean to be selected as an HCR in the field of Environment and Ecology. Again in 2021, he became the first Korean HCR in two fields: Environment and Ecology, and Engineering. He is working at the vanguard of global efforts to develop sustainable waste management strategies and technologies to address the rising crisis in electronic and plastic waste, and pollution of soil and air with particulate matter.

Dr. Ok has also served in a number of positions worldwide including, as an honorary professor at the University of Queensland (Australia), a visiting professor at Tsinghua University (China), an adjunct professor at the University of Wuppertal (Germany), and a guest professor at Ghent University (Belgium). He maintains a worldwide professional network by serving as a Co-Editor-in-Chief of Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology, an Editor of Environmental Pollution, a member of the editorial advisory board of Environmental Science & Technology, and an editorial board member of Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Chemical Engineering Journal, and Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology, and several other top journals.

He currently serves as the Director of the Sustainable Waste Management Program for the Association of Pacific Rim Universities (APRU) and the Co-President of the International ESG Association. Moreover, he has served on the Scientific Organizing Committee of P4G Nature Forum: Climate Change and Biodiversity, and Nature Forum: Plastics and Sustainability. Dr. Ok has also served as the chairman of numerous major conferences such as Engineering Sustainable Development series (ESD series), organized by the APRU and the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE). In 2021, Dr. Ok hosted the first Nature conference among South Korean universities in Seoul on waste management and valorization for a sustainable future together with Chief Editors of Nature Sustainability (Dr. Monica Contestabile), Nature Electronics (Dr. Owain Vaughan), and Nature Nanotechnology (Dr. Fabio Pulizzi). Prof. Ok will host the first Nature Forum on Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG) for Global Sustainability: the "E� Pillar for Sustainable Business.