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The book has 2 sections; Section A focuses on Environmental Sustainability and Green Technology and Section B covers Emerging Technologies in Environmental Biotechnology.  The book introduces Environmental biotechnology as a tool to progress towards sustainable development goals and covers green technologies such as Bio-plastics, Third generation hybrid technology for  algal  biomass production, wastewater treatment and greenhouse gas mitigation, Green vaccination, Bio-fuels, Microbial enzymes, Bioelectrical systems, eco-friendly handmade paper production, nature based sanitation solutions, and greener ways to tackle air pollution along with the application of GIS to monitor & manage COVDI19 pandemic. The Section B covers emerging & innovative technologies such as vermifiltration, Small  scale  PVA  gel  based  innovative  solution  for  wastewater  treatment, Cyclic technology based sequencing batch reactors (SBR) and role of Role of Bio-selectors in Performing Simultaneous Nitrification and Denitrification in SBR’s. It holistically covers essential information on Enzymatic Biotransformation and Biopolymer based nanocomposites for dye waste treatment, Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi assisted Bioremediation of heavy metals, Coir Retting and Duckweeds: The Tiny Creatures for Resolving the Major Environmental Issues. It is a promising book for researchers, academicians, teachers, students, industrial enterprises, policy makers, public health officials and general users. The book is closely aligned to curricula of post graduate courses in biotechnology, microbiology, environmental biotechnology and environmental science.

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Author:   Sudipti Arora ,  Ashwani Kumar ,  Shinjiro Ogita ,  Yuan- Yeu Yau
Publisher:   Springer Verlag, Singapore
Imprint:   Springer Verlag, Singapore
Edition:   1st ed. 2022
Weight:   1.640kg
ISBN:  

9789811644443

ISBN 10:   9811644446
Pages:   950
Publication Date:   17 May 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Part 1 Environmental Sustainability and Green Technology.- 1 The use of Environmental Biotechnology: A tool to progress towards sustainable development goals.- 2 Environment sustainability and role of biotechnology.- 3 Global Environmental Problems: A Nexus between Climate , Human Health and COVID 19 and Evolving Mitigation Strategies.- 4 Environment & Green Technology.- 5 Sustainable Technology: Foresight to Green Ecosystem.- 6 Green Technology for Bioplastics towards Sustainable Environment.- 7 Green Vaccination: Smart Plant Health Care for Human Welfare.- 8 Role of Emerging Green Technology in Remediation of Toxic Pollutants.- 9 Biofuel as a sustainable option to control environmental changes.- 10 Third generation hybrid technology for  algal  biomass production, wastewater treatment and greenhouse gas mitigation.- 11 Advances in Biological Nitrogen Removal.- 12 Application of Microbial enzymes: Biodegradation of paper and pulp waste.- 13 Microalgal Bioremediation: A Clean and Sustainable Approach for Controlling Environmental Pollution.- 14 Toxicological Impact of Azo Dye and their Microbial Degraded by-products on Flora and Fauna.- 15 Industrial Wastewater Treatment in Bio-electrochemical Systems.- 16 Novel Economic Method for Dynamic Non-Invasive Optical Monitoring of Turbidity.- 17 Exploring the Less Travelled Path of Ecofriendly Handmade Paper Production.- 18 Exploring the Niche: Real-Environment Demonstration and Evaluation of innovative Nature-Based-Sanitation Technologies in a Water scarce Community Context in India.- 19 Problems of increasing Air Pollution and Certain Management Strategies.- 20 Applications of Geographic Information Science and Technology to Monitor and Manage the COVID-19 Pandemic.- Part 2 Emerging Technologies in Environmental Biotechnology.- 21 Emerging Technologies in Environmental Biotechnology.- 22 Advanced and eco-friendly technologies for the treatment of industrial wastewater to constrain environmental pollution.- 23 Vermifiltration technology as a sustainable solution for wastewater treatment- Performance Evaluation, Applicability and Opportunities.- 24 Vermifiltration: A novel sustainable and innovative technology for waste water treatment.- 25 Small Scale Pva Gel Based Innovative Solution for Wastewater Treatment.- 26 Cyclic technology based sequencing batch reactors (SBR) treating municipal wastewater: Full scale experience.- 27 Biodegradation of Soapstock: as an Alternative Renewable Energy Resource and Reduce Environmental Pollution.- 28 Influence of nanomaterials in combined microbial fuel cell-electro-Fenton systems as a sustainable alternative for electricity generation and wastewater treatment.- 29 Role of Bio-Selectors in Performing Simultaneous Nitrification and Denitrification in SequencingBatch Reactor Based Stps of India.- 30 Emerging technique of Enzymatic Biotransformation of Amides to Hydroxamic Acid for Pharmaceutical and Dye waste treatment.- 31 Biopolymer based nanocomposites for removal of hazardous dyes from water-bodies.- 32 Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi assisted Bioremediation of Heavy metals– A Revaluation.- 33 Application of Biotechnology for Providing Alternative of Fossil Fuel to Protect Environment.- 34 Coir Retting: Process upgradation and Pollution abatement through Environmental Biotechnology.- 35 Cadmium toxicity in rice: tolerance mechanisms, and their management.- 36 Evaluation of Residual Toxicity of Synthetic Pyrethroids in the Environment.- 37 Sustainable sanitation as a tool to reduce land degradation.- 38 Duckweeds: The Tiny Creatures for Resolving the Major Environmental Issues.- 39 Influence of the electrical stimulation using IrO2-Ta2O5êTiand RuO2-Ta2O5ê Ti anodes in the edaphological properties for the germination and growth of Zea mays L.- 40 Recent Advances in Biotechnology for generating Yellow Mosaic Disease resistance in mungbean (Vignaradiata L. Wilczek).

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Dr. Sudipti Arora is a Research Scientist at Dr. B. Lal Institute of Biotechnology, Jaipur and is expert in the field of Nature based Sustainable solutions for waste management such as vermifiltration technology, and working on zero waste & Circular economy. She obtained her Ph.D in Environmental Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee in 2016. Her Research interests also involve wastewater-based epidemiology research of SARS-CoV-2 in COVID-19. She is a member of International water Association (IWA) and the Biotech Research society of India (BRSI). She has been working on different researches funded by DST, India and GCRF Awards, university of Nottingham. Dr. Arora has authored important discoveries in the field of environmental biotechnology publishing several SCI journals. She has been honoured by various awards including, Research Excellence Award 2020 by Institute of Scholars for outstanding research work and Green Parrot Award in 2019 for her contribution in Indigenous water treatment by vermifiltration technology.   Dr. Ashwani Kumar is an awardee of Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship Germany, and visiting Professorship in JSPS Japan, U.K., and INSA-DFG Germany. He has done his Ph.D and MSc from University of Rajasthan in 1971 and is a gold medallist in MSc (Botany). He has tremendous contribution in the areas of plant pathology, physiology, renewable sources of energy, biofuel biotechnology, photosynthetic carbon fixation in C3 and C4 plants with support of projects granted by UGC, USDA-ICAR, MNES, CSIR, DST and DBT and FACT. He has Visited USA, Canada, Denmark, Italy, Netherlands, UK, Japan, France, Sweden, and Portugal for research. He has published around 180 papers in National and International journals. He is a Fellow of various societies FBS, FPSI, FISMPP and FMA. He has Guided research to 39 students in Ph.D. He is also a Consultant of World Bank Project sanctioned to SPRI-HPPI and Biodis Spain. He hasPublished 16 books including Plant Tissue Culture-A tool in Biotechnology Basics and Application, and edited book on Fern Biotechnology by Springer. He also has edited another 14 books mainly in the field of Biotechnology. He was awarded V Puri Medal 2008 for Botany and CEE award for excellence in teaching and research in 2015.   Dr. Shinjiro Ogita obtained his Masters and Ph.D. in Agriculture (subject: sciences of resources and environment) from the United Graduate School of Agriculture, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology (TUAT). He is an expert in the field of cell and tissue culture, transformation technologies for higher plants. He also has a keen interest in sciences of plant bio-resources. He has more than 20 years of experiences in research and education at the following institutes, the Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Japan, Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST), Japan, Toyama Prefectural University (TPU), Japan. He presently works as a Full Professor at Faculty of Bioresource Sciences, Department of Local Resources (formerly Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences, Department of Life Sciences), Prefectural University of Hiroshima (PUH), Japan. Dr. Yuan-YeuYau is a teaching researcher at Department of Natural Sciences at NSU, OK, USA. He obtained his Master and Ph.D. from University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. He was a researcher and a specialist at University of California-Berkeley and Plant Gene Expression Center (USDA-ARS) at Albany, California. Dr. Yau has more than 20 years of experiences in research, mentoring researchers, scholars and students. His researches are in areas of plant biotechnology, plant breeding, plant biochemistry and plant physiology. Dr.Yau worked on projects with grants supported by NSF (National Science Foundation), NIH (National Institutes of Health), USDA, Cotton Incorporated, California Fresh Carrot Advisory Board, North-eastern State University. Dr.Yau has authored or co-authored several Science Citation Index (SCI) and Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) journals. He also serves as a reviewer for several important scientific journals (and Springer-Nature book proposals), including Plant Biotechnology Journal, Plant Physiology and Biochemistry and Plant Cell Reports. He is also an editor of several Springer-Nature books.

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