(Innovations in Agricultural & Biological Engineering) 1st Edition
by Megh R. Goyal (Editor), Khursheed Ahmad Wani (Editor), Junaid Ahmad Malik (Editor)
This
4-volume set focuses on the use of microbial bioremediation and
phytoremediation to clean up pollutants in soil, such as pesticides,
petroleum hydrocarbons, metals, and chlorinated solvents, which reduce
the soil's fertility and renders it unfit for plant growth.
Volume 1: Fundamental Aspects and Contaminated Sites
begins with an overview of phytoremediation and the role of
environmental factors. It goes on to introduce soil assessment
techniques and offers methods of remediation designed to combat soil and
agricultural degradation. It discusses soils contaminated by heavy
metals; microbial and phytoremediation-based removal of polycyclic
aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) from coal, crude oil, and gasoline;
microbial bioremediation and amelioration of pesticide-contaminated
soils; phytoremediation techniques for biomedical waste contaminated
sites; as well as biomediation processes for human waste sites.
Biopesticides are also explained as an alternative to conventional
pesticides.
Other volumes in the 4-volume set:
• Volume 2: Microbial Approaches and Recent Trends
• Volume 3: Inventive Techniques, Research Methods, and Case Studies
• Volume 4: Degradation of Pesticides and Polychlorinated Biphenyls
Together,
these four volumes provide in-depth coverage of the mechanisms,
advantages, and disadvantages of the bioremediation and phytoremediation
technologies for safe and sustainable soil management.
