Environmental Metagenomics, Water Quality and Suggested Remediation Measures of Polluted Waters: A Combined Approach
- 1st Edition - April 2, 2024
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- Authors: Inderjeet Tyagi, Vikas Kumar, Rama Rao Karri
- Language: English
Environmental Metagenomics, Water Quality and Suggested Remediation Measures of Polluted Waters: A Combined Approach is a reference handbook for scientists, engineers and early-car… Read more
Environmental Metagenomics, Water Quality and Suggested Remediation Measures of Polluted Waters: A Combined Approach is a reference handbook for scientists, engineers and early-career researchers seeking guidance in the areas of water quality and remediation studies. The comprehensive book, which includes case studies and applications from a range of contributors in the field, offers an essential resource in the science of water quality assessment.
- Includes a range of applications and case studies in wetland, riverine, drinking, and groundwater metagenomics, along with approaches for the remediation of pollutants from wastewater
- Offers the latest updates on environmental metagenomics and its correlation with water environments, remediation measures, and SDGs
- Provides key contributions from global researchers in the fields of water chemistry, environmental science, engineering, and public health
Graduate, Postgraduate and PhD students and academics in Environmental Sciences (and Life Sciences – Applied Microbiology). Researchers working in environmental sciences and e-DNA. Researchers working on surveillance of pathogen; sustainable anti-bacterial materials for possible remediation; bacterial and pathogenic diversity sensing. Researchers from industries that implement professional policies in respect to water, quality, remediation, and e-DNA. Researchers working in wastewater purification. Policymakers working in sustainable development goals. Scientists, engineers and professionals related to environmental sciences
Part I: Introduction to Environmental Metagenomics, Water Quality and Remediation Measures1. Introduction to Environmental Metagenomics, Water Quality and Remediation Measures: An overview2. Environmental metagenomics and associated functional annotations in polluted ecosystem3. Protocols to e-DNA with special reference to polluted wetlands, riverine ecosystem, groundwater and Drinking water microbiome4. Metagenomics Data mining and storage: Policies, Linkages, and Interlinkages5. Impact toxic pollutants including heavy metals, organic and anthropogenic impurities on the water quality and their permissible limits6. Detailed overview of techniques used across the globe for the remediation of pollutants from polluted water7. Health impacts of pathogens, metal, organic and anthropogenic pollutants on human health and prevailing fauna
Part II: Water Quality and Environmental Metagenomics of Polluted waters8. Metagenomics* and limnological studies of sewage fed aquaculture ponds across the globe9. Metagenomics* and heavy metal speciation studies of economically important Ramsar sites10. Metagenomics* and heavy metal speciation studies of drinking water across the globe11. Metagenomics*, Limnological and heavy metal speciation studies of groundwater12. Metagenomics* and limnological studies of riverine ecosystem13. Metagenomics*, Limnological and heavy metal speciation of STPS/ETPs/WWTPs*Metagenomics covering bacterial, eukaryotic and Antibiotic (ARGs) or Antimicrobial Resistance Genes (AMRs)
Part III: Case Studies
Part IV: Sustainable Technologies in pollutants remediation and Environmental Metagenomics14. Biochars as low-cost alternative materials for remediation of pollutants15. Constructed wetland as sustainable alternative for wastewater treatment16. Fecal matter sensing and remediation using combined wastewater treatment and sensing approach17. Antibacterial agents for the remediation of pathogenic diversity18. Application of nanomaterials loaded activated carbon as possible solution for remediation of pollutants Chapter 19: Hydrothermally treated low-cost material for remediation of toxic metal and organic impurities20. Monitoring of microbes and possible remediation through genetically engineered microbes21. Green technologies as possible remediating approach for wastewater treatment
- Edition: 1
- Latest edition
- Published: April 2, 2024
- Language: English
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Inderjeet Tyagi
Dr. Inderjeet Tyagi is working as a Scientist at ZSI, Ministry of Environment Forest and Climate Change, Kolkata, India. To his expertise, Dr. Tyagi is working in the field of Wastewater treatment, Water Quality, Environmental Metagenomics, and Environmental Management for the past several years. To his credit, Dr. Tyagi had published 120+ SCI papers with Citation~8600 and an h-index of 51 with a cumulative impact factor >550. More to this, he is leading Five (5) national and international projects related to wastewater and water quality assessment in heavily polluted areas in India. Further, he is also on the reviewer panel of more than 40 international journals belonging to well-known publishers like Elsevier, Nature, Springer Nature, Taylor Francis, ACS, etc. Recently, he was awarded the “India Prime Education Quality Award 2021” for his outstanding contribution to the field of wastewater treatment and Environmental Management. He is a lifetime member of the Indian Science Congress Association (ISCA) and a Member of the International Society of Wetland Scientists (International Chapter). He is the Editor of One Elsevier edited book entitled “Sustainable Materials for Sensing and Remediation of Noxious Pollutants”
Affiliations and expertise
Scientist, ZSI, Ministry of Environment Forest and Climate Change, Kolkata, IndiaVK
Vikas Kumar
Dr. Vikas Kumar is working as Division In-charge and Scientist E, in Molecular Systematics Division at Zoological Survey of India. Owing to his expertise, he has more than twenty-four years of research experience on areas such as Environmental Metagenomics, Molecular Phylogenetics comparative Mitogenomics and gut microbiome. He has published more than 150 SCI articles in journals of international reputation, such as Science of the Total Environment, Environmental Science and Pollution Research, Saudi Journal of Biological Sciences, Molecular biology Reports, Scientific reports (Nature Publishing group), PLosOne, PeerJ. His work is widely recognized across the globe by well-known researchers. Dr. Kumar is interested in the environmental metagenomics of heavily polluted stretches with relation to the noxious pollutants especially for polluted wetlands, paper industries, and riverine ecosystems. He has been on the editorial board of different journals and has served as a reviewer for more than fifty journals in the field.
Affiliations and expertise
ZSI, Zoological Survey of India, Centre for DNA Taxonomy, Kolkata, IndiaRK
Rama Rao Karri
Rama Rao Karri is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Engineering at Universiti Teknologi Brunei. He holds a PhD from IIT Delhi and a Master’s from IIT Kanpur in Chemical Engineering. With over 20 years of experience in academia, industry, and research, he has experience working in multidisciplinary fields and has expertise in various evolutionary optimization techniques and process modelling. His expertise extends to process modeling and simulation, focusing on optimizing chemical and environmental processes to improve efficiency and sustainability. He serves on editorial boards of several international journals and acts as a peer reviewer for numerous reputed publications. He has held editorial roles including Editor-in-Chief and Associate Editor for journals such as Scientific Reports and the International Journal of Energy and Water Resources. He is also a guest editor for special issues on nanocomposites and environmental engineering topics. Additionally, he contributes to authoring and editing books on sustainable technologies, environmental remediation, and process monitoring with leading academic publishers. He also has the distinction of being listed in the Top 2% of the world’s most influential scientists in the area of environmental sciences and chemical engineering since 2021, compiled and published by Stanford University.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Faculty of Engineering, University of Technology of Brunei, IUniversiti Teknologi Brunei, Brunei DarussalamRead Environmental Metagenomics, Water Quality and Suggested Remediation Measures of Polluted Waters: A Combined Approach on ScienceDirect