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Ecological Significance of Riparian Ecosystems: Challenges and Management Strategies examines the current issues related to river ecosystems, their environmental importance, pollution issues and potential management strategies. The book is divided into 4 key themes: Basics of river ecosystem, Natural phenomenon of river ecosystem, Human-induced problems of river ecosystem, and Management measures for the river ecosystem. Through these four themes, the contributors present both practical and theoretical aspects of river ecosystem in changing climate. An emphasis has been made on the recent research of climate change and its impact on the river ecosystem.
River ecosystems have tremendous potential to store CO2, however, with changing climatic and anthropogenic activities, these habitats are under threat, and river ecosystems are losing the very vital service of storing carbon. Unlike well documented terrestrial biodiversity, the biodiversity in aquatic ecosystems is still unrecognized to some extent.
Presents an understanding of the biogeochemical processes of river ecosystems achieved by food webs and diverse biogeochemical processes
Covers sediment dynamics and nutrient chemistry - hot topics in river ecosystems
Includes environmental pollution issues in river ecosystems from various anthropogenic activities
Graduate students, researchers, and practitioners in freshwater science, conservation, and natural resource management who recognize the increasing demand for cross-disciplinary collaboration, adaptive management, and social frameworks to facilitate such efforts
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Table of Contents
Contributors
Chapter 1 An overview of human health risk from opium alkaloids and related pharmaceutical products pollution in aquatic ecosystems
Abstract
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Opium and alkaloid-based industries
1.3 Active pharmaceutical ingredients
1.4 Impacts of pharmaceutical products on aquatic ecosystem
1.5 Effects of various opium alkaloids on human health
1.6 Treatment approach
1.7 Concluding remarks
Conflict of Interest
Acknowledgment
References
Chapter 2 Impact of pharmaceuticals and antibiotics waste on the river ecosystem: a growing threat
Abstract
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Pharmaceuticals and antibiotics waste
2.3 Rules and regulations for surveillance of pharmaceuticals and antibiotics in water ecosystem
2.4 Sources of pharmaceuticals and antibiotics in water ecosystem
2.5 Impact of pharmaceuticals and antibiotics on aquatic ecosystem
2.6 Approaches for remediation of pharmaceuticals and antibiotics
22.7 Researchable issues (research gap) and way forward
22.8 Conclusion
Acknowledgment
Conflicts of Interest
References
Chapter 23 Water quality status in Bagmati river of Kathmandu valley, Nepal
Abstract
Keywords
23.1 Introduction
23.2 Bagmati River Basin
23.3 Physicochemical condition
23.4 Heavy metals
23.5 Conclusions
References
Index
No. of pages: 520
Language: English
Published: January 12, 2022
Imprint: Elsevier
Paperback ISBN: 9780323850452
eBook ISBN: 9780323903431
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Sughosh Madhav
Dr. Sughosh Madhav works as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Civil Engineering, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India. He has obtained his master’s degree from the Department of Environmental Science Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India. He earned his doctorate from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. The area of his doctoral research is the environmental impact of textile effluents on groundwater and soil quality. He has published various research papers and book chapters in environmental geochemistry, water pollution, and wastewater remediation. He also edited 4 books related to water resource management in Elsevier, Springer, and Wiley publications.
Affiliations and expertise
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Civil Engineering, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India
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Shyam Kanhaiya
Dr. Shyam Kanahiya Singh is currently an Assistant Professor and Head of the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Professor Rajendra Singh (Rajju Bhaiya) Institute of Physical Sciences for Study and Research, Veer Bahadur Singh Purvanchal University, Jaunpur, Uttar Pradesh, India. He obtained his Ph. D. from the Department of Geology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India. His area of interest is the geochemistry of earth surface processes: river processes geochemistry, chemical weathering of rocks, sediment geochemistry, and paleoclimatology and provenance studies besides fluvial sedimentology of the Ganga plain. He has published more than fifteen research papers in various international Journals.
Affiliations and expertise
Assistant Professor, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Professor Rajendra Singh (Rajju Bhaiya) Institute of Physical Sciences for Study and Research, Veer Bahadur Singh Purvanchal University, Jaunpur, Uttar Pradesh, India
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Arun Lal Srivastav
Dr Arun Lal Srivastav is working as an Assistant Professor at Chitkara University, in India. He is currently involved in the teaching of Environmental Science, Environmental Engineering and Disaster Management to the undergraduate engineering students.
His research interests include water treatment, river ecosystem, climate change, soil health maintenance, phytoremediation, and waste management. He has published around 50 research papers in various peer-reviewed, national and international journals, conferences, and books. He has also filed 12 patents.
Affiliations and expertise
Assistant Professor, Chitkara University, Himachal Pradesh, India
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Virendra Bahadur Singh
Dr. Virendra Bahadur Singh is presently working as Dr. D. S. Kothari Postdoctoral Fellow (DSKPDF) in the Department of Geology, University of Delhi, Delhi, India. He has also worked as National Postdoctoral Fellow (NPDF) in the Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Delhi, New Delhi, India. Dr. Singh has obtained a doctoral degree from School of Environmental Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India in 2016. His research work is mainly focussed on hydrology, sediment dynamics, hydrogeochemistry, biogeochemistry etc. He has published 28 papers in various peer-reviewed national and international journals. Dr. Singh has awarded Commonwealth Split-site Scholarship tenable at University of Bristol, UK.
Affiliations and expertise
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Geology, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India
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Pardeep Singh
Dr. Pardeep Singh is presently working as an Assistant professor (Department of Environmental Science, PGDAV College, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India). He obtained his master's degree from the Department of Environmental Science Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi India in 2011. He obtained his doctorate from the Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University) Varanasi in the year 2017. The area of his doctoral research is the degradation of organic pollutants through various indigenous isolated microbes and by using various types of photocatalytic. He has published more than 65 papers in the international journals in the fields of waste management.
Affiliations and expertise
Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Science, PGDAV College, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India