Overview
- Covers the complete domain of solid and liquid waste management
- Presents original research on waste management from more than 30 countries
- Offers valuable reference material for future work
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Front Matter
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Prof. Sadhan Kumar Ghosh, Professor & Former Head of the Mechanical Engineering Department and Founder Coordinator of the Centre for QMS at Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India, is a prominent figure in the field on Waste Management, Green Manufacturing & Green Factories. He served as the Director, CBWE, Ministry of Labour and Employment, Govt. of India and L&T Ltd. Prof. Ghosh is also the founder and Chairman of the IconSWM; President of the International Society of Waste Management, Air and Water; and chairman of the Indian Congress on Quality, Environment, Energy and Safety Management Systems (ICQESMS). In 2012 he was awarded a Distinguished Visiting Fellowship by the Royal Academy of Engineering, UK to work on 'Energy Recovery from Municipal Solid Waste'. More recently, he was tasked with the Horizon 2020 research project entitled “Bio-mimetic and phyto-technologies designed for low-cost purification and recycling of water - India H2O” (2018-22), which is funded by the European Union.
Prof. Ghosh is also an international expert affiliated with a) the United Nations Centre for Regional Development under the UN in 3R Forum (Adelaide, 2016); b) the Asian Productivity Organization (APO), Japan and China Productivity Council (CPC) on Green Manufacturing and Green Factories (Taiwan 2014, 2015, 2016); and c) a Research Project for GP for the BoP business in APO member countries in Asia (May 2016 - June 2017). His papers on waste management, namely on biowaste, e-wastes and MSW have received Excellence Awards in many countries.
In addition to holding two Indian patents and serving as a member of the editorial boards of several journals, he initiated the movement for worldwide Sustainable Waste Management with partners in many countries through the “Consortium of Researchers in International Collaboration” (CRIC). Prof. Ghosh has been Principal Investigator of more than 25 research projects, and has written nine books and more than 180 nationaland international articles and book chapters. He can be reached at: sadhankghosh9@gmail.com.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Waste Water Recycling and Management
Book Subtitle: 7th IconSWM ̶̶ ISWMAW 2017, Volume 3
Editors: Sadhan Kumar Ghosh
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-2619-6
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-13-2618-9Published: 25 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-981-13-2619-6Published: 24 January 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 318
Number of Illustrations: 49 b/w illustrations, 110 illustrations in colour
Topics: Waste Management/Waste Technology, Water Policy/Water Governance/Water Management, Monitoring/Environmental Analysis