
Emerging Contaminants in the Environment
Challenges and Sustainable Practices
- 1st Edition - January 8, 2022
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Editors: Hemen Sarma, Delfina C. Dominguez, Wen-Yee Lee
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 8 5 1 6 0 - 2
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 8 5 9 8 1 - 3
Emerging Contaminants in the Environment: Challenges and Sustainable Practices covers all aspects of emerging contaminants in the environment, from basic understanding to di… Read more
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Emerging Contaminants in the Environment: Challenges and Sustainable Practices covers all aspects of emerging contaminants in the environment, from basic understanding to different types of emerging contaminants and how these threaten organisms, their environmental fate studies, detection methods, and sustainable practices of dealing with contaminants. Emerging contaminant remediation is a pressing need due to the ever-increasing pollution in the environment, and it has gained a lot of scientific and public attention due to its high effectiveness and sustainability. The discussions in the book on the bioremediation of these contaminants are covered from the perspective of proven technologies and practices through case studies and real-world data. One of the main benefits of this book is that it summarizes future challenges and sustainable solutions. It can, therefore, become an effective guide to the elimination (through sustainable practices) of emerging contaminants. At the back of these explorations on sustainable bioremediation of emerging contaminants lies the set of 17 goals articulated by the United Nations in its 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted by all its member states.
This book provides academics, researchers, students, and practitioners interested in the detection and elimination of emerging contaminants from the environment, with the latest advances by leading experts in emerging contaminants the field of environmental sciences.
- Covers most aspects of the most predominant emerging contaminants in the environment, including in soil, air, and water
- Describes the occurrence of these contaminants, the problems they cause, and the sustainable practices to deal with the contaminants
- Includes data from case studies to provide real-world examples of sustainable practices and emerging contaminant remediation
Researchers and academics in environmental science or any researchers needing information on pollutants and remediation practices. Researchers, academics, undergraduate and graduate students in Microbiology, Environmental biotechnology, bio-engineering and biomedical sciences, Health, Clinical and Pharmaceutical sciences
1. Understanding emerging contaminants in soil and water:current perspectives on integrated remediation approaches
Hemen Sarma
2. Emerging environmental contaminants—current status,challenges, and technological solutions
Anna Grobelak and Aneta Kowalska
3. Anticancer drugs in the environment: environmental levels and technological challenges
Joa˜o Vasco Valente, Susana Coelho, M. Ramiro Pastorinho and Ana Catarina Sousa Sousa
4. Exposure to 1,4-dioxane and disinfection by-products due to the reuse of wastewater
Miraji Hossein, Othman Chande, Faustin Ngassapa and Mureithi Eunice
5. Transport, fate, and bioavailability of emerging pollutants in soil, sediment, and wastewater treatment plants: potential environmental impacts
Luz Chaco´n, Liliana Reyes, Luis Rivera-Montero and Kenia Barrantes
6. Pharmaceutical and personal care products in the environment: occurrence and impact on the functioning of the ecosystem
Sana Sungur
7. Excessive pharmaceutical and personal care products in the environment cause life-threatening diseases
Bhupinder Dhir
8. A broad perspective on antimicrobial resistance in coastal waters
Stella M.C.N. Manc¸ ano, Eloiza H. Campana and Renata C. Pica˜o
9. Environmental fate and transportation of perfluorinated compounds
Sana Sungur
10. Engineered nanomaterials: threats, releases, and concentrations in the environment
Nadun H. Madanayake, O.D.A.N. Perera and Nadeesh M. Adassooriya
11. Plastic pollution in marine and freshwater environments: abundance, sources, and mitigation
Florin-Constantin Mihai, Sedat Gu¨ndog˘du, Farhan R. Khan, Arianna Olivelli, Laura A. Markley and Tim van Emmerik
12. Electronic waste: an emerging contaminant in the geo- environment
Pankaj Pathak and Kumar Sushil
13. Effects of pesticides on human physiology, genetics,and evolution
Preeti Karwal, Pooja Mittal, Garima Nagar, Archana Singh and Indrakant K. Singh
14. Integrative behavioral and ecotoxicological effects of nanoparticles
Charu Tripathi, Poonam Sharma, Indrakant K. Singh and Archana Singh
15. Determination of multiclass emerging contaminants using QuEChERS method
Lucı´a Pareja, Andre´s Pe´rez-Parada, Germa´n Azcune, Agustina Muela and Marcos Colazzo
16. Removal of quinolone antibiotics from wastewaters and sewage sludge
Laura Martı´n-Pozo, Marı´a del Carmen Go´mez-Regalado, Marı´a Teresa Garcı´a-Co´rcoles and Alberto Zafra-Go´mez
17. Chemosensing technology for rapid detection of emerging contaminants
Abhijit Hazra, Amita Mondal, Suparna Paul, Sourav Bej, Udayan Mondal, Somrita Nag and Priyabrata Banerjee
18. Methods of bisphenol A detection by gas chromatography and mass spectrometry (GC-Ms) in human breast milk and foodstuff
Laura Martı´n-Pozo, Julia Martı´n-Bueno, Inmaculada Moscoso-Ruiz and Alberto Zafra-Go´mez
19. Microalgae as whole-cell biosensors in the prospective assessment of toxic effects of emerging contaminants
Ángeles Cid, Concepción Herrero, Carmen Rioboo, Marta Esperanza, Marta Seoane
20. The mixture of agricultural pesticides and their impact on populations: bioremediation strategies
Tjandra Setiadi, Ardiyan Harimawan, Giovanni A. Sumampouw and Antonius Indarto
21. Assisted and amended technology for the sustainableremediation of emerging contaminants
Sajjad Ghahari, Somayeh Ghahari, Saeid Ghahari, Ghorban Ali Nematzadeh, Rashmi Rekha Saikia, Nazim Forid Islam and Hemen Sarma
22. Bioremediation of cytostatic pharmaceutical and personal care products and emerging technologies
Pranaba N. Bhattacharyya, Songita Sonowal, Liza Handique Bhattacharyya, Ram Prasad and Hemen Sarma
23. Removal of antimicrobial resistance determinants from wastewater: a risk perspective on conventional and emerging technologies
Leonardo Moura and Renata C. Pica˜o
24. Novel nanomaterials for nanobioremediation of polyaromatic hydrocarbons
Siddhartha Narayan Borah, Niharika Koch, Suparna Sen, Ram Prasad and Hemen Sarma
- Edition: 1
- Published: January 8, 2022
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Language: English
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