Bioremediation and Bioeconomy - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0128028300 ISBN 13: 9780128028308

Publisher: Elsevier, 2015

Synopsis

Bioremediation and Bioeconomy provides a common platform for scientists from various backgrounds to find sustainable solutions to environmental issues, including the ever-growing lack of water resources which are under immense pressure due to land degradation, pollution, population explosion, urbanization, and global economic development.

In addition, large amounts of toxic waste have been dispersed in thousands of contaminated sites and bioremediation is emerging as an invaluable tool for environmental clean-up.

The book addresses these challenge by presenting innovative and cost-effective solutions to decontaminate polluted environments, including usage of contaminated land and waste water for bioproducts such as natural fibers, biocomposites, and fuels to boost the economy.

Users will find a guide that helps scientists from various backgrounds find sustainable solutions to these environmental issues as they address the topical issues crucial for understanding new and innovative approaches for sustainable development.

• Provides a compilation of new information on phytoremediation not found in other books in the present market
• The first book to link phytoremediation and the bioeconomy
• Includes strategies to utilize contaminated soils for producing bioresources and co-generation of value chain and value additions products

About this title

About the Author:

M.N.V. Prasad is an Emeritus Professor in the Department of Plant Sciences at the University of Hyderabad. He has served the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change, Government of India in various advisory committees on biodiversity conservation, ecosystem services, pollution control and abatement, environmental information systems and bioremediation of contaminated sites. He is an active visiting scientist in several international universities. He is the editor, co-editor, or author of 15 books and 95 journal articles (with over 6277 journal citations and h-index 41 as per google scholar). He has made outstanding contributions to the fields of Bioremediation, Bioresources, Biomass energy sources, bioeconomy and to the broad field of environmental biotechnology (including value chain and value addition products from plants used in phytoremediation) and bioremediation are his main areas of expertise.

About this edition

• Publisher: Elsevier
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0128028300
• ISBN 13: 9780128028308
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 730
• Editor: Vara Prasad Majeti Narasimha