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Sustainable Agriculture Reviews 50

Emerging Contaminants in Agriculture

  • This volume provides up to date information on the subject
  • Easy presentation for the benefit of research as well as for academics
  • Discusses different aspects of the subject from sources, types and toxicity to mangement strategies

Part of the book series: Sustainable Agriculture Reviews (SARV, volume 50)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
  2. Sources of Emerging Contaminants in Agroecosystems

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Sewage Wastewater and Sludge as Source of Traditional and Emerging Contaminants in Agroecosystems

      • Vipin Kumar Singh, Rishikesh Singh, Ajay Kumar, Rahul Bhadouria, Shilpi Pandey
      Pages 35-59
    3. Particulate Matter Pollution and Global Agricultural Productivity

      • Sujit Das, Debanjana Pal, Abhijit Sarkar
      Pages 79-107
    4. Dyes from Textile Industry Wastewater as Emerging Contaminants in Agricultural Fields

      • Jatinder Singh, Parnika Gupta, Anamika Das
      Pages 109-129
  3. Types of Emerging Contaminants in Agriculture

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 131-131
    2. Antibiotics and Antibiotic Resistance Genes in Agroecosystems as Emerging Contaminants

      • Vipin Kumar Singh, Rishikesh Singh, Ajay Kumar, Rahul Bhadouria, Pardeep Singh, Kin Israel Notarte
      Pages 177-210
    3. Soil Contamination by Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in the Agroecosystems

      • Rajni Yadav, Abhishek Kumar, Diksha Tokas, Anand Narain Singh
      Pages 211-234
  4. Transport of Emerging Contaminants in Agroecosystems

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 259-259
    2. Transport of Emerging Contaminants from Agricultural Soil to Groundwater

      • Khalid Muzamil Gani, Muntjeer Ali, Monika Dubey, Absar Ahmad Kazmi, Sheena Kumari, Faizal Bux
      Pages 261-281
  5. Threats and Mechanism of Toxicity of Emerging Contaminants

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 309-309
  6. Traditional Knowledge and Social Concerns About Emerging Contaminants

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 381-381
    2. Non-Judicious Use of Pesticides Indicating Potential Threat to Sustainable Agriculture

      • Ajay Kumar Mishra, Rahul Arya, Rakhi Tyagi, Dipti Grover, Jyotiprakash Mishra, Shobhit Raj Vimal et al.
      Pages 383-400

About this book

This book reviews contaminants of emerging nature affecting the agroecosystem and includes important information regarding the their sources, types, transportation, environmental threats and strategies to decontaminate the affected agroecosystems. The contents of this volume will help the policy makers and environmental engineers in combating the continuously rising threats to cultivated ecosystems.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Botany, Centre of Advanced Study in Botany, Institute of Science, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India

    Vipin Kumar Singh

  • Institute of Environment and Sustainable Development, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India

    Rishikesh Singh

  • Aix Marseille University, CNRS, IRD, INRAE, Coll France, CEREGE, Aix-en-Provence, France

    Eric Lichtfouse

About the editors

Dr. Vipin Kumar Singh is a research associate at Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India. His current interest includes environmental contaminants and mitigation using biological approaches. So far he has published more than 50 research papers in the journal of national and international repute. He is the life time fellow of Indian Association of Hydrologists and Association of Microbiologists of India.

Dr. Rishikesh Singh is an environmental researcher at Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India. His current interest includes environmental contaminants, and management of agroecosystem using living materials derived products like biochar. He is credited to publish more than 70 research publications in various international journals. He is serving as the Assistant Editor in the journal “Tropical Ecology”. He has actively reviewed the articles from different renowned journals of international repute.


Dr. Eric Lichtfouse is a biogeochemist at Aix Marseille University who has invented carbon-13 dating, a molecular-level method allowing to study the dynamics of organic compounds in temporal pools of complex environmental media. He is Chief Editor of the journal Environmental Chemistry Letters, and the book series Sustainable Agriculture Reviews and Environmental Chemistry for a Sustainable World. He is the author of the book Scientific Writing for Impact Factor Journals, which includes an innovative writing tool: the Micro-Article.

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eBook USD 129.00
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Softcover Book USD 169.99
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  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
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Hardcover Book USD 169.99
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  • Durable hardcover edition
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