Human and Animal Health : Environmental Perspectives

Contents: Preface. 1. Environmental issues and challenges/M.H. Fulekar, Bhawana P. and Jyoti Fulekar. 2. Pesticides risk assessment and mitigation/J.P.S. Gill and J.S. Bedi. 3. Persistent organic pollutants: animal health implications/V.J. Jadhav, S.R. Garg and N.K. Mahajan. 4. Inorganic chemical impurities in water: livestock health implications/Jyotsana Madan, Meenakshi Gupta and S.R. Garg. 5. Environmental fluorides: risk assessment and remediation/Renuka Gupta, Bhupinder Singh and V.K. Garg. 6. Health risk of non occupational exposure to carcinogenic asbestos/Iqbal Ahmad, Huma Siddiqui and Govil Patil. 7. Selenium toxicity/Arindam Kuila, Mainak Mukhopadhyay and Rintu Banerjee. 8. Lead pollution/D.K. Ghosh. 9. Potential of chelation therapy in heavy metal toxicity/Arif Tasleem Jan, Arif Ali and Qazi Mohd. Rizwanul Haq. 10. Anthropogenic aquatic xenobiotics/K.K. Krishnani and S.M. Pillai. 11. Toxicological impact of water pollutants on aquatic organisms/Satya Prakash Pathak. 12. Characteristics and bioremediation of wastewater in coastal shrimp aquaculture/K.K. Krishnani and B.P. Gupta. 13. Xenobiotics remediation through bioreactors/S.S. Bhattacharya, S. Gupta and Rintu Banerjee. 14. Pollution abatement using biological treatment systems/Sudhir Kumar Gupta and Debolina Basu. 15. Sustainable wastewater treatment: strategies and requirements/M.M. Ghangrekar and Manaswini Behera. 16. Ecofriendly biopolymers and biodegradable plastics/Virendra K. Sikka. 17. Coal fried power plants: environmental risk mitigation/G.C. Kisku and V.P. Sharma. 18. Health risk from petroleum solvents/Sudhir K.Goel. 19. Workplace environmental hazard mitigation in chemical industries/Krishnendu Mukhopadhyay and Vidhya Venugopal. 20. Environmental degradation due to poor agricultural practices/Somen Acharya, Vijay K. Bharti and R.B. Srivastava. 21. Agrochemicals in animal feeds: livestock and public health implications/A. Sahoo. 22. Environmental risk from integrated farming system/B.R. Singh. 23. Ecofriendly utilization of crop residues and organic waste material/S.S. Sindhu, Nisha Verma and Sneh Goyal. 24. Biological control of arthropod pests/Pala Ram. 25. Livestock methane emission and global warming: risks and remedies/Anil K. Puniya, Sanjay Kumar, Sunil K. Sirohi and Kishan Singh. 26. Safe and economic disposal of slaughterhouse waste/Vikas S. Waskar. 27. Roof harvested rainwater: quality and health risk/V. Meera and M. Mansoor Ahammed. 28. Quality Indoor air for healthy children/Priyanka Kulshreshtha and Mukesh Khare. 29. Nuclear waste management/R.K. Vaid and Anjali Sharma. 30. III effects of noise pollution on human beings and animals/Asim Kumar Pal. 31. Global warming and climate change: health implications/R.K. Vaid and N. Virmani. 32. Strategies for prevention of environmental health hazards/Vidhya Venugopal. 33. Forest conservation for environmental protection/Sunita Chandel and Preeti Mehta. Index. …