Spatial Modeling of Environmental Pollution and Ecological Risk

1st Edition - December 1, 2023
Editors: Pravat Kumar Shit, Dilip Kumar Datta, Biswajit Bera, Aznarul Islam, Partha Pratim Adhikary
Language: English
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Spatial Modeling of Environmental Pollution and Ecological Risk provides valuable information and insights for researchers, students and professionals in geography, hydrology, sedimentology, soil science, agriculture, engineering and GIS as they face increasingly complex challenges around development strategies for a sustainable society. Written by the world’s leading researchers in their field, each article will begin with a short introductory essay that includes an overview of the sections' papers.

Individual chapters focus on the core themes of research and knowledge and some topics that have received lesser attention. Each chapter will review the current understanding of knowledge regarding the present study and scope and consider where future efforts should be directed.

Cover image
Title page
Table of Contents
Copyright
Contributors
Preface
Part I. Air pollution and environmental risk
1. Introduction to air pollution and environmental risk
1.1. Introduction
1.2. Key aims of the part-I
1.3. Organization of this part
2. Air quality monitoring and its impact on local tree species in and around mining areas of Dhanbad District, Jharkhand, India
2.1. Introduction
2.2. Materials and method
2.3. Result and discussion
2.4. Conclusion
3. Environmental exposure to heavy metals in ambient air and its human health implications
3.1. Introduction
3.2. Sources of metals contamination in atmosphere
3.3. Atmospheric heavy metals
3.4. Impact of heavy metals
3.5. Conclusion
4. Air pollution, disease burden, and health economic loss
4.1. Overview
4.2. Major countries suffering from air pollution
4.3. Status of air pollution in different states of India
4.4. Major reasons of air pollution
4.5. Effect of air pollution on health
4.6. Effects of air pollution on the economy
4.7. Conclusion and future recommendations
Conflict of interest
5. Risk analysis of air pollution correlates with socioeconomic and heart diseases
5.1. Introduction
5.2. Particulate matters
5.3. Conclusions
5.4. Future perspectives
6. Assessing the environmental pollution and risk of Metro rail construction in Dhaka City
6.1. Introduction
6.2. Study area and methodology
6.3. Results and discussions
6.4. Air quality (third quarter)
6.5. Air quality (fourth quarter)
6.6. Spatial variation in air pollution
6.7. Noise Pollution (third quarter)
6.8. Noise pollution (fourth quarter)
6.9. Spatial variation in noise pollution
6.10. Concluding remarks
7. Analysis of driving features for characterization of aerosol in India using Shapely Additive exPlanation (SHAP) and GIS
7.1. Introduction
7.2. Study area
7.3. Data and methodology
7.4. Results and discussion
7.5. Conclusion
8. Magnetic susceptibility as proxy to air pollution: A case study from Durgapur industrial township, West Bengal, India
8.1. Introduction
8.2. Magnetic susceptibility as a proxy for pollution: The present state of knowledge
8.3. Study area, sampling techniques, and measurement
8.4. Results and discussions
8.5. Conclusions
Part II. Aquatic environment, health, and ecological risk
9. Introduction to aquatic environment, health and ecological risk
9.1. Backdrop
9.2. Study focus
9.3. Chapter briefings
9.4. Policy issues and way forward
10. Contamination of microplastics in the marine food web with special reference to seafood: Present status and future concern
10.1. Introduction
10.2. Types of plastics commonly found in marine environment
10.3. Impact of MPs in system transformation
10.4. The fate of microplastics in the aquatic environment
10.5. General techniques of microplastics detection
10.6. Physical methods
10.7. Chemical methods include
10.8. Microplastics contamination in the marine food web
10.9. Plankton
10.10. Crustaceans
10.11. Polychaetes
10.12. Molluscs
10.13. Fishes
10.14. Marine reptiles
10.15. Birds
10.16. Mammals
10.17. Presence of microplastic in seafood
10.18. Human exposure to microplastics through seafood
10.19. Microplastics as vector for Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs)
10.20. Trophic transmission of microplastics and contaminants
10.21. Impact of microplastics on human health
10.22. Future perspectives in controlling microplastics
10.23. Conclusion
11. Toxic contamination of aquatic habitat and its remediation
11.1. Introduction
11.2. Toxic contaminants
11.3. Aquatic ecology
11.4. Remediation of toxicants
11.5. Conclusion
Conflict of interest
12. Nanoplastics as burgeoning hazardous contaminant to aquatic environment: An overview
12.1. Introduction
12.2. Nanoplastics in environment
12.3. Contamination of aquatic bodies by nanoplastics
12.4. Transmission of nanoplastics in the aquatic and terrestrial food chain
12.5. Detrimental impacts of nanoplastics on aquatic organisms
12.6. Perspective measures to limit nanoplastic contamination in aquatic bodies
12.7. Conclusion and outlook
13. Effect of polluted water on Heteropneustes fossilis (Bloch)
13.1. Introduction
13.2. Materials and methods
13.3. Results
13.4. Discussion
13.5. Conclusion
14. Toxic contaminants and their impacts on aquatic ecology and habitats
14.1. Introduction
14.2. Toxic contaminants and aquatic health hazards
14.3. Biomarkers of aquatic pollution
14.4. Impact of toxicants on physicochemical parameters of aquatic habitats
14.5. Remedial measures
14.6. Conclusion
15. Diversity of meiobenthic fauna in costal environment: As a bioindicator
15.1. Introduction
15.2. Distribution patterns and role in food web
15.3. Diversity of meiobenthic fauna in Indian territory
15.4. Diversity of meiobenthic fauna worldwide
15.5. Meiobenthic fauna as a biological indicator
15.6. Ecological threats on meiofauna
15.7. Effects of waste disposal, eutrophication, and hydrocarbons contamination on meiofaunal diversities
15.8. Conclusion
16. Risk assessment of elements in muscle of two biomonitored fish species from the southern Black Sea
16.1. Introduction
16.2. Metal contamination of the Black Sea
16.3. Importance of biomonitoring fish
16.4. Effect of metals on humans via consumption fish
16.5. Materials and method
16.6. Metal determination
16.7. Potential health risk estimation for fish consumption
16.8. Statistical analysis
16.9. Results and discussion
16.10. Conclusion
17. Distribution of elemental abundances in a coastal river (Bangladesh): Pollution status and ecological risks
17.1. Introduction
17.2. Experimental
17.3. Results and discussions
17.4. Conclusion
18. Heavy metal concentration in some commercially important fishes and their contribution from Subarnarekha River of Jharkhand, Odisha, and West Bengal state, India
18.1. Introduction
18.2. Materials and methods
18.3. Results and Discussion
18.4. Health risk and ecological risk assessment
18.5. Conclusion
19. Arsenic contamination of groundwater in the Gangetic West Bengal (India) and its impact on human health, society, and economy
19.1. Introduction
19.2. Material and methods
19.3. Results and discussion
19.4. Conclusions
20. Ecotoxicological impacts of selenium: A critical review
20.1. Introduction
20.2. Presence of selenium in the environment
20.3. Different anthropogenic sources of selenium contamination
20.4. Sources of dietary selenium
20.5. Mechanism of selenium toxicity
20.6. Ecotoxicity of selenium
20.7. Acute toxicity of selenium
20.8. Chronic toxicity of selenium
20.9. Selenium toxicity in humans
20.10. Selenium toxicity in plants
20.11. Conclusion
21. Geospatial assessment of water quality of a dying tropical river and its environmental implications
21.1. Introduction
21.2. The river
21.3. Database and methodology
21.4. Result
21.5. Discussion
21.6. Conclusion
22. Melatonin as a potential remedy in fish reproduction against environmental pollution: An emerging issue
22.1. Introduction
22.2. Melatonin: a light-sensitive chronobiotic hormone
22.3. Artificial light as an environmental pollutant in fish reproduction
22.4. Bisphenol-A (BPA) as an environmental pollutant
22.5. Physiological implications of melatonin in fish reproduction
22.6. Comparative binding analysis of melatonin and BPA with melatonin receptor protein (MT1R): an in silico study
22.7. Conclusion
23. Microorganisms: A sustainable management tool for aquatic pollution
23.1. Introduction
23.2. Sources of water pollution
23.3. Impact of water pollution on human health
23.4. Types of microorganisms involved in bioremediation
23.5. Microorganisms-associated bioremediation of some major water pollutants
23.6. Types and mechanism of bioremediation
23.7. Conclusion
24. Bioremediation and ecorestoration strategies of aquatic environment
24.1. Introduction
24.2. Aquatic ecosystem
24.3. Ecosystem restoration strategies
24.4. Conclusions
Index

Pravat Kumar Shit

Dr. Pravat Kumar Shit is Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography, Vidyasagar University, India and also works in the Postgraduate Department of Geography, Raja N. L. Khan Women’s College, India. He received his Ph.D. in Applied Geomorphology from Vidyasagar University in 2013, M.Sc. in Geography and Environment Management from Vidyasagar University in 2005 and PG Diploma in Remote Sensing & GIS from Sambalpur University in 2015. His main fields of research are soil erosion spatial modelling, water resource and natural resource mapping, and geospatial modelling, and has published over 50 international and national research articles in various renowned journals. He has published three books and is an associate editor or on the editorial board of three international journals in geography and environmental science.

Affiliations and expertise

Assistant Professor, Postgraduate Department of Geography, Raja N. L. Khan Women’s College (Autonomous), Gope Palace, Midnapore, West Bengal, India

Dilip Kumar Datta

Dr. Dilip Kumar Datta is a professor in Environmental Science Discipline, Khulna University, Bangladesh, where he has been a faculty member since October 1997. He started his professional career as a museologist at the Bangladesh National Museum and spent around seven years in the position of Assistant Keeper in the Department of Natural History. Dilip Kumar Datta has also contributed to many universities' policy issues as a member of the relevant committees. His research interest encompasses a wide range of Environmental Science of the Bengal Drainage Basin, emphasizing the Lower Bengal Delta. His research areas include hydrogeochemistry and water resource management in a deltaic environment

Affiliations and expertise

Professor in Environmental Science Discipline, Khulna University, Bangladesh

Biswajit Bera

Dr. Biswajit Bera is an assistant professor in the Department of Geography, Sidho Kanho Birsha University, West Bengal (India). He completed an M.Sc and Ph.D. from the University of Calcutta, West Bengal (India), and a P.G. Certificate course in groundwater hydrology from IISWBM, Kolkata. Dr. Bera has rich experience teaching in different core areas of geography in various colleges and universities over the last 10 years. He is the recipient of the prestigious Young Geomorphologist Award and International Young Geomorphologist scholarship. He has published five books for school, college, and university students and several research articles in national and international peer-reviewed journals. His research interests include fluvial geomorphology, hydrology, and environmental geography. Dr. Bera regularly appears in debate/talk in both national print and electronic media. Recently, he has completed the ICSSR Major Research Project awarded by the Ministry of HRD, Govt. of India.

Affiliations and expertise

Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, Sidhu Kanhu Birsha University, West Bengal, India

Aznarul Islam

Dr. Aznarul Islam is an assistant professor in the Department of Geography, Aliah University, Kolkata, India. He completed a Master of Science in Geography from Kalyani University, India and an M.Phil and Ph.D. in Geography from the University of Burdwan, India. He has published more than twenty-five research papers in different national and international journals, edited volumes, and conference proceedings. He is an editorial board member of five international journals and acts as the reviewer of eight international journals. He is an editor of Neo-Thinking on Ganges Brahmaputra Basin Geomorphology and Quaternary Geomorphology in India - Case Studies from the Lower Ganga Basin under Springer International Publishing. His principal area of research includes geomorphology of the Bengal Basin, especially riverbank erosion, channel migration, flood, anthropo-geomorphology, and channel decaying.

Affiliations and expertise

Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, Aliah University, Kolkata, India

Partha Pratim Adhikary

Dr Partha Pratim Adhikary, is presently a Senior Scientist in Soil Physics and Soil and Water Conservation at ICAR-Indian Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, India. He obtained his Bachelors’ degree in Agriculture from Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya, Masters’ degree in Soil Science from Chaudhury Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University, and Ph.D. in Agricultural Physics from ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute. Dr Adhikary has over 100 publications in journals, and has worked on many edited books, and book chapters. Dr Adhikary has over 12 years’ experience in research, training and extension in the field of soil physics, spatial variability, soil and water conservation and watershed management. He has successfully used non-parametric spatial interpolation techniques such as indicator kriging and probability kriging to determine heavy metal pollution in soil and groundwater.

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Senior Scientist, Soil Physics and Soil and Water Conservation Department, ICAR Indian Institute of Water Management, Bhubaneswar, India

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