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Fiber Crop-Based Phytoremediation

Socio-Economic and Environmental Sustainability

  • 1st Edition - June 21, 2022
  • Latest edition
  • Authors: Pooja Mahajan, Purabi Saikia, Ashish Praveen, Vimal Chandra Pandey
  • Language: English

Fiber Crop–Based Phytoremediation: Socio-economic and Environmental Sustainability provides an informative source of information on using fiber crops for phytoremediation. Phytor… Read more

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Description

Fiber Crop–Based Phytoremediation: Socio-economic and Environmental Sustainability provides an informative source of information on using fiber crops for phytoremediation. Phytoremediation is gaining attention globally due to ever-increasing numbers and areas of industrially polluted sites. The major challenge is to develop new and cost-effective solutions to decontaminate polluted sites. In this regard, plant-based remediation, especially using fiber crops, is a promising and cost-effective approach for environmental remediation on a large-scale due to its socio-economic and ecological sustainability. Furthermore, changing environmental conditions also cause various biotic and abiotic stresses in fiber crops and thereby negatively affect the fiber crop establishment, growth and yield.

This book will be specifically important to these readers who need to be able to select specific fiber crop species according to site-specificity of the contaminated site.

Key features

  • Provides up-to-date research and understanding on how to utilize fiber crops for the phytoremediation of contaminated land
  • Covers a wide range of applicable fiber crops, including bast, grass and woody crops, allowing for the utilization of techniques regardless of specific fiber crop
  • Details the uses and benefits of fiber crop phytoremediation on environmental, societal and economic development

Readership

Environmental scientists, particularly those working in pollution management and remediation, researchers in biology and agriculture

Table of contents

1. Phytoremediation: Progress, potential, and prospects

2. Bast fiber crops in phytoremediation

3. Grass fiber crops in phytoremediation

4. Woody fiber crops in phytoremediation

5. Sustainability of fiber crop production from polluted land

6. Transgenic fiber crops in phytoremediation

7. Multipurpose uses of fiber crops—Societal, economic, and environmental development

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: June 21, 2022
  • Language: English

About the authors

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Pooja Mahajan

Dr. Pooja Mahajan is Assistant Professor, Centre for Water Sciences, Chitkara University Institute of Engineering and Technology, Chitkara University, Punjab, India. Her research focuses on Phytoremediation of contaminated sites, Waste Water Treatment, Drinking water purification, Dye Removal, Heavy Metal Removal, etc. She has published several research articles and review articles in peer –review international journal having good impact factor. Dr. Mahajan is a reviewer of several reputed national and international journals. She also credited 6 patents in her profile.
Affiliations and expertise
Assistant Professor, Centre for Water Sciences, Chitkara University Institute of Engineering and Technology, Chitkara University, Punjab, India

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Purabi Saikia

Dr. Purabi Saikia is an Associate Professor at Banaras Hindu University, India, working in plant ecology, conservation of threatened species, plant–soil interactions, and ecosystem restoration across Indian forest ecosystems. She is an active member of the IUCN Commission on Ecosystem Management and the Global Forest Biodiversity Initiative. She is a recipient of the Vigyan Yuva–Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award 2024 in Environmental Science and the Assam Saurabh Award 2024. She has published extensively in leading journals including Nature, PNAS, and Nature Ecology & Evolution, and has edited or co-authored several books.

Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor, Department of Botany, Institute of Science, Banaras Hindu University, India

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Ashish Praveen

Dr. Ashish Praveen completed his Ph.D. from Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), New Delhi, India. He has trained in research work at CSIR-NBRI. His research area is wide as phytoremediation of arsenic, ecotoxicology of arsenic, bioindicators of arsenic, climate change, soil and water pollution. Now, he is working as assistant professor in department of Botany at Markham College of Commerce (Vinoba Bhawe University), Hazaribag, India. Dr. Praveen has published many research and review article in reputed international journals that having good impact factor.
Affiliations and expertise
Department of Botany at Markham College of Commerce, Vinoba Bhave University, Hazaribag, Jharkhand, India

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Vimal Chandra Pandey

Dr. Vimal Chandra Pandey is an applied research scientist of phyto- and phycoremediation at Chandigarh University, India. He obtained his PhD from Dr. RML Avadh University and conducted post-doctoral research at Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University, India. Dr. Pandey’s research focuses on the remediation and management of polluted sites using ecologically and socio-economically valuable plants and algae. His work focuses strongly on restoring ecosystem services and developing a bio-based economy in support of the UN SDGs. Dr. Pandey is a member of the IUCN commission on Ecosystem Management and the National Academy of Sciences, India. He is the author and editor of several books, including Elsevier’s Algae and Aquatic Macrophytes in Cities, Bioremediation of Pollutants, and more.
Affiliations and expertise
Research Scientist, University Center for Research and Development (UCRD), Chandigarh University, Mohali, Punjab, India

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