Editors:
- Provides a detailed overview of natural and anthropogenic sources of various toxic environmental contaminants, their toxicological effects in environments, humans, animals and plants as well as their management (biodegradation and bioremediation) and approaches for the cleanup of contaminated environments
- Includes various emerging and eco-friendly waste management approaches and their useful byproducts
- Is a valuable resource for students, scientists and researchers in microbiology, biotechnology, environmental sciences
- Offers insights into the ecological & health implications, as well as the management and challenges of various environmental contaminants
Part of the book series: Microorganisms for Sustainability (MICRO, volume 14)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
About this book
As we know, rapid industrialization is a serious concern in the context of a healthy environment. Various physico-chemical and biological approaches for the removal of toxic pollutants are available, but unfortunately these are not very effective. Biological approaches using microorganisms (bacterial/fungi/algae), green plants or their enzymes to degrade/detoxify environmental contaminants such as endocrine disrupting chemicals, toxic metals, pesticides, dyes, petroleum hydrocarbons and phenolic compounds are eco-friendly and low cost. This book provides a much-needed, comprehensive overview of the various types of contaminants, their toxicological effects on the environment, humans, animals and plants as well as various eco-friendly approaches for their management (degradation/detoxification). As such it is a valuable resource for a wide range of students, scientists and researchers in microbiology, biotechnology, environmental sciences.
Editors and Affiliations
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Laboratory for Bioremediation and Metagenomics Research (LBMR), Department of Microbiology (DM), School for Environmental Sciences (SES), Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University (A Central University), Lucknow, India
Ram Naresh Bharagava
About the editor
Dr. Ram Naresh Bharagava was born in 1977. He received his B.Sc. degree (1998) in Zoology, Botany and Chemistry from the University of Lucknow, India, and M.Sc. degree (2004) in Molecular Biology and Biotechnology from Govind Ballabh Pant University of Agriculture & Technology (GBPUAT), India. He received his Ph.D. degree (2010) in the area of Microbiology jointly from Environmental Microbiology Division, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)-Indian Institute of Toxicology Research (IITR), Lucknow and Pt. Ravishankar Shukla University, Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India. He was a Junior Research Fellow (JRF) during his Ph.D., and passed the CSIR-National Eligibility Test (NET) twice and the Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) once. He has written one book entitled “Bacterial Metabolism of Melanoidins from distillery Effluent” and edited six books entitled “Bioremediation of Industrial Pollutants”, “Environmental Pollutants and their Bioremediation Approaches”, Ecofriendly and Emerging Approaches for Waste Minimization”, “Recent Trends in Environmental Management and Bioremediation of Industrial Waste for Environmental Safety: Industrial Waste and Its Management (Volume I & II). He has also authored and coauthored numerous research/review papers and two book reviews in respected national and international journals. He has also written several chapters for national and international edited books as well as a number of scientific articles, and has presented papers at national and international conferences. Further, he is a reviewer for various national and international journals. After a postdoctoral appointment at CSIR-IITR, Lucknow, he joined Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar (Central) University, where he is currently an Assistant Professor of Microbiology and actively engaged in teaching at postgraduate and doctoral level as well as research on various Government of India (GOI) sponsored research projects in the field of Environmental Toxicology and Bioremediation. His major areas of research are the biodegradation and bioremediation of environmental pollutants in industrial wastewaters, metagenomics and wastewater microbiology. He is a member of the Academy of Environmental Biology (AEB), Association of Microbiologists of India (AMI), and Biotech Research Society (BRSI), Indian Science Congress Association (ISCA), India.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Environmental Contaminants: Ecological Implications and Management
Editors: Ram Naresh Bharagava
Series Title: Microorganisms for Sustainability
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-7904-8
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-13-7903-1Published: 18 November 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-7906-2Published: 18 November 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-981-13-7904-8Published: 28 October 2019
Series ISSN: 2512-1901
Series E-ISSN: 2512-1898
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 340
Number of Illustrations: 43 b/w illustrations, 29 illustrations in colour
Topics: Environmental Management, Environmental Chemistry, Environmental Engineering/Biotechnology, Environmental Science and Engineering, Environment Studies