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River Health and Ecology in South Asia

Pollution, Restoration, and Conservation

  • Provides case studies from South Asia on river ecology, pollution and control strategies
  • Offers adaptation and restoration management plans for river ecosystem health
  • Discusses monitoring, conservation and assessment technologies for water resource management

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
  2. River Health and Ecology: Perspective View and Approach

    • Bidhan Chandra Patra, Pravat Kumar Shit, Gouri Sankar Bhunia, Manojit Bhattacharya
    Pages 1-7
  3. Anthropogenic Stress on River Health: With Special Reference to Kangsabati River, West Bengal, India

    • Amalesh Bera, Tapas Kumar Dutta, Manojit Bhattacharya, Bidhan Chandra Patra, Utpal Kumar Sar
    Pages 39-61
  4. Role of Modern Biotechnology in the Era of River Water Pollution

    • Ajaya Kumar Rout, Sangita Dixit, Sujata Dey, Pranaya Kumar Parida, Manojit Bhattacharya, Sukanta Kumar Pradhan et al.
    Pages 63-79
  5. Microplastics in Freshwater Riverine Systems: Brief Profile, Trophic-Level Transfer and Probable Remediation

    • Urmi Mustafi Moon, Chhandak Mondal, Nimai Chandra Saha, Asif Hossain
    Pages 103-126
  6. Estimating Water Quality of Sundarban Coastal Zone Area Using Landsat Series Satellite Data

    • Ismail Mondal, Sandeep Thakur, Amlan De, Jatisankar Bandyopadhyay, Tarun Kumar De
    Pages 155-176
  7. Assessment of Habitat Quality in Quarried Reach of Alluvial River

    • Raj Kumar Bhattacharya, Nilanjana Das Chatterjee, Kousik Das
    Pages 251-280
  8. Physicochemical and Microbial Indicators for Water Quality Assessment in an Industrial Catchment of River Damodar, India

    • Baisakhi Chakraborty, Sambhunath Roy, Amit Bera, Partha Pratim Adhikary, Biswajit Bera, Debashish Sengupta et al.
    Pages 281-301
  9. Assessment of Water Pollution and Aquatic Toxicity of the Churni River, India

    • Biplab Sarkar, Aznarul Islam, Pravat Kumar Shit, Susmita Ghosh
    Pages 303-327
  10. River Corridor Mapping and Monitoring Using Geospatial Technology

    • Gouri Sankar Bhunia, Pravat Kumar Shit
    Pages 329-339
  11. Back Matter

    Pages 409-420

About this book

This volume reviews recent hydrological and environmental issues resulting from human-induced water pollution practices while providing case studies on the physical, chemical, and eco-biological techniques used to mitigate the impacts of river ecosystem pollution in South Asian countries. The book demonstrates the key methods of measurement, monitoring, mapping, and modeling of river water quality and how it is impacted by pollution and incorporates contemporary geospatial technological applications for the management and sustainability of future water resources. The major topics that the book addresses are the fundamental concepts of river ecosystem health, riverine ecology and habitats, risk assessment of riverine pollution, and technology-based river pollution control strategies. The book will serve as an interdisciplinary guide for researchers, students, and GIS specialists working in various disciplines, including pollution hazards, river ecosystem restoration, water quality, remote sensing, zoology, natural resources management, and environmental geography.   

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Zoology, Vidyasagar University, Midnapore, India

    Bidhan Chandra Patra

  • PG Department of Geography, Raja N. L. Khan Women’s College (Autonomous), Midnapore, India

    Pravat Kumar Shit

  • RANDSTAD India Pvt Ltd., New Delhi, India

    Gouri Sankar Bhunia

  • Department of Zoology, Fakir Mohan University, Balasore, India

    Manojit Bhattacharya

About the editors

Dr. Bidhan Chandra Patra is the Senior Professor of Zoology, Vidyasagar University, West Bengal, India. He worked on Fisheries Science, Nutrition Biology and published more than 140 scientific research articles in several leading journals. Professor Patra having more than 30 years active, operational experiences in Research & Development sectors. He also successfully guided 36 numbers of Ph.D. scholars and completed 22 nos. of governmental sponsored research projects. At present, he is working on Fisheries Data Management, Nutrition biology, Computational Biology and advanced fields of molecular biology techniques.

 

Dr. Pravat Kumar Shit is an Assistant Professor at the PG Department of Geography, Raja N. L. Khan Women’s College (Autonomous), West Bengal, India. He received his M.Sc & Ph.D. degrees in Geography from Vidyasagar University and PG Diploma in Remote Sensing & GIS from Sambalpur University. His research interests include applied geomorphology, soil erosion, groundwater, forest resources, wetland ecosystem, environmental contaminants & pollution, and natural resources mapping & modeling. He has published ten books (Springer-08, CRC Press-01 and Elsevier-01) and more than 70 papers in peer-reviewed journals.  He is currently the editor of the GIScience and Geo-environmental Modelling (GGM) Book Series, Springer-Nature. Also, he is an active reviewer in more of 30 international journals.

 

Dr. Gouri Sankar Bhunia received Ph.D. from the University of Calcutta, India in 2015. His Ph.D. dissertation work focused on environmental control measures of infectious disease using Geospatial technology. His research interests include environmental modelling, risk assessment, natural resources mapping and modelling, data mining and information retrieval using Geospatial technology. Dr Bhunia is associate editor and on the editorial boards of threeinternational journal in Health GIS and Geosciences. Dr. Bhunia has published more than 60 articles in various journals in Scopus indexed. He is currently the editor of the GIScience and Geo-environmental Modelling (GGM) Book Series, Springer-Nature.

 

Dr. Manojit Bhattacharya received his M.Sc and PhD in Zoology from Vidyasagar University, West Bengal, India. He served as National Post Doctorate Fellow (DST, Govt. of India) at   ICAR-Central Inland Fisheries Research Institute, Ministry of Agriculture, Govt. of India (2017-2019). He also worked as Visiting Research Fellow at Institute for Skeletal Aging &Orthopedic Surgery, Hallym University, Gangwon-do, Republic of Korea in the year 2014-2015. Dr. Bhattacharya holds 10 years of Research & Development experience in the fields of advanced Molecular biology and Computational biology, he published more than seventy numbers research article in reputed international journals.In 2019 he was selected as Junior Scientist of the Year by National Environmental Science Academy, New Delhi. Currently, Dr. Bhattacharya working as Assistant Professor, P.G Dept of Zoology, Fakir Mohan University, Balasore, Odisha, India.


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