Role of Green Chemistry in Ecosystem Restoration to Achieve Environmental Sustainability deals with current challenges of environmental problems along with the approaches of environmental sustainability in alliance with green chemistry. The book shows how to lessen the impact on the environment by maintaining a balance between society, the environment, and the economy, all of which are regarded as fundamental pillars of sustainability. Furthermore, policymakers and scholars will gain insights into how to develop and explore innovative techniques for achieving sustainable development goals. This book is unique in the field of environmental sustainability, as it is based on green chemistry concepts.
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Table of Contents
(A) Environmental management 1. Recent advances in sustainability science for environmental conservation 2. Role and application of green chemistry and nanotechnology in environmental sustainability 3. Ecosystem restoration in urban/peri-urban areas through urban sustainability 4. Role of environmental sustainability for climate change adaptations 5. Importance of indigenous knowledge in achieving environmental sustainability 6. Recent environmental management practices adopted in developed countries 7. Role of artificial intelligence to achieve environmental sustainability
(B) Water sustainability 8. Sustainable approaches of heavy metal removal from water 9. Chemistry of water quality parameters for aquatic lives 10. Application of pyrolysis techniques to produce bio-sorbents for water treatment 11. Application of environmental chemistry in the detection of emerging environmental problems and their impacts 12. Socio-economic factors for environmental management in the pharmaceutical industries 13. Emerging organic water pollutants (pesticides, dyes etc) and their remediation strategies
(C) Waste management and environment protection 14. Waste valorisations by environment friendly approaches such as biorefinery 15. Resource recovery from the e-wastes through bioleaching
(D) Agricultural sustainability 16. Role of soil chemistry for agricultural sustainability 17. Role of microbes and plants in soil heath maintenance 18. Green approaches for the development of bio-pesticides and bio-fertilizers
Authors
Arun Lal Srivastav Chitkara University, Himachal Pradesh, Solan, India.Dr. Arun Lal Srivastav is working as Assistant Professor at Chitkara University School of Engineering and Technology, Chitkara University, Himachal Pradesh, India. He has obtained his PhD from the Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi, India on the adsorption of nitrate and fluoride from water. Also, he has done post-doctoral research at National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan. He is currently involved in the teaching of Environmental Science, Environmental Engineering, Disaster Management and Design Thinking to the undergraduate engineering students. His research interests include water quality surveillance, climate change, water treatment, river ecosystem, soil health maintenance, engineering education, phytoremediation and waste management. He has published > 86 research papers in various prestigious journals (Elsevier, Springer, IWA, Taylor & Francis etc.) including some book chapters and conferences. He is also the editor of 20 books with Elsevier, Springer, NOVA and Wiley. Additionally, he is also one of the series editors of Elsevier and Nova publisher on energy sustainability and e-waste management, respectively. Further, in his credit, 12 patents have been granted by the Government of India on multidisciplinary topics. He is also working on 04 Government sponsored projects (worth ~16 million INR) on phytoremediation, adsorption, capacity building, organic farming, leachate treatment, agro-waste management etc.
Ajmer Singh Grewal Associate Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Guru Gobind Singh College of Pharmacy, Yamuna Nagar, Haryana, India. Dr. Ajmer Singh Grewal is working as Associate Professor at Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Guru Gobind Singh College of Pharmacy, Yamuna Nagar, Haryana (India). He obtained his Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Sciences on the topic "Design, synthesis and biological evaluation of newer glucokinase activators� from I.K. Gujral Punjab Technical University, Jalandhar, Punjab (India). His present areas of research include structure-based drug design and medicinal chemistry of matrix metallo proteinase inhibitors as anticancer agents, antibacterial drug resistance, glucokinase activators as anti-diabetic agents, aldose reductase inhibitors for diabetic complications, PPAR agonists for treatment of metabolic syndrome, multi-potent anti-Alzheimer's agents, pesticides and environmental chemistry. He owns to his credit a total of 60 publications in national and international journals of repute, 2 book chapters, 1 book, and 2 patents. Markandeya Tiwari Visiting Faculty, Department of Civil Engineering, IIT (BHU) Varanasi, India. Dr. (Er.) Markandeya is working as a Visiting Faculty, Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi. He has also worked as an Assistant Environmental Engineer in Spectro Analytical Labs Ltd. New Delhi and Green Circle Inc. Vadodara as Executive-Environmental Engineer. Dr. Markandeya availed life membership of Indian Association for Air Pollution Control, New Delhi, The Institution of Engineers (India), Kolkata and National Institute of Hydrology, Roorkee, India. He is working on various fields related to Air, water and wastewater and also editor and reviewer of various peer reviewed National and International journals. He published more than 67 articles including International Peer Reviewed Journal (31), National Journal (10), Book Chapters (05), International Conferences (12) and other in National conferences. Tien Duc Pham Lecturer, University of Science, Vietnam National University, Hanoi, Vietnam. Dr. Tien Duc Pham is now working as Lecturer at University of Science, Vietnam National University, Hanoi. He achieved PhD at University of Tsukuba, Japan in 2014. His research interests focus on adsorption characteristics, mechanisms of surfactants, polyelectrolytes onto metal oxides and soils. He studies adsorptive removal of organic pollutants such as antibiotics, dyes and pesticides as well as inorganic contaminants including heavy metal and ammonium ions using novel modified nanomaterials. He also investigates the new green analytical methods based on spectroscopy and separation methods for environmental and food analysis. He is currently teaching Analytical chemistry, Instrumental analysis and Advanced Spectroscopic methods to both undergraduate and graduate students. He has published about 50 ISI papers in prestigious journals, 35 national papers and many conference papers. He is now working as lead guest editor, topic editor, guest editor and editorial board members of 5 ISI journals on nanomaterials with various applications.
