Emerging Contaminants

Sustainable Agriculture and the Environment
Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-0-443-18985-2
Verlag: Elsevier Science & Technology

Buch, Englisch, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 690 g

Emerging Contaminants: Sustainable Agriculture and the Environment provides a thorough, comprehensive, and interdisciplinary overview of the many categories of emerging pollutants, including pharmaceuticals, insecticides, personal care items, and industrial chemicals, that are currently impacting the environment. With insights into the exposure associated consequences on crops and edible plants, this book is designed to enable foundational understanding as the basis for future research, as well as providing practical application guidance in current environments. Water resource shortages, declining arable land, environmental contamination with different exiting or ECs, shortcomings in the procedures for protecting cultivated land, and inefficiencies in the management of land tenure rights continue to pose challenges for agricultural sustainable development around the world. This book focuses on the impacts of ECs on sustainable agricultural production and explores possible response approaches. Following an introduction to environmental contaminants, this book discusses their fate in soils, presents the most up-to-date analytical methods for detecting them in different environmental matrices, and addresses current regulatory restrictions. Finally, this book ends with a chapter dedicated to conclusions and future perspectives. Emerging Contaminants is an ideal resource for researchers and professionals from a variety of sciences including agricultural, plant, and environmental.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kumari, Arpna

van Hullebusch, Eric D.

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Agrarwissenschaften Agrarwissenschaften
• Technische Wissenschaften Umwelttechnik | Umwelttechnologie Umwelttechnik
• Naturwissenschaften Agrarwissenschaften Ackerbaukunde, Pflanzenbau
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Bodenkunde, Sedimentologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introductory overview of emerging pollutants and challenges for environmental sustainability
2. Insights into the analytical procedures for the detection of emerging contaminants from the water, soils, and sediments
3. Occurrence of microplastics and nanoplastics in terrestrial ecosystem and their toxicological impacts in plants
4. Occurrence of emerging contaminants in soils and impacts on rhizosphere
5. Ubiquity of microplastics and phtalates in aquatic ecosystem and ecotoxicological conerns
6. Phytotoxicity, cytotoxicity, and genotoxicity of pharmaceutical products along with their transport and fate
7. Appraisal on accumulation of nano-enabled agrochemicals in plants with subsequent morpho-physiological implications
8. Endocrine-disrupting chemicals exposure induced alterations in the germination, growth, and physiological traits of plants
9. Nanomaterials induced phytotoxicity and challenges to agriculture
10. Personal care products in agroecosystem: ubiquity, sources, and toxicity insights
11. Contamination of arable soils with perfluorinated compounds and their exposure mediated modulations in plants
12. Effects of veterinary antibiotics on the soil properties
13. Pollution of silver and silver nanoparticles in the ecosystems and their interactions with plants and soil microbiota
14. Perchlorate stress?in plants: Insights into growth and physiological consequences
15. Contamination of arable soils with bisphenol-A and phthalates along with their consequent impacts on the crops
16. Bioremediation of emerging pollutants: a sustainable remediation approach
17. Exploitation of plants for the removal of emerging contaminants from the environment: a green technology
18. Cyanotoxins pollution in waterbodies and soils impose potential risks to the surrounding flora

Über Autor(innen)

Kumari, Arpna
Dr. Arpna Kumari is working as a Senior Researcher in the Academy of Biology and Biotechnology, Southern Federal University, Russia. She possesses 7 years of research experience in the field of Plant Physiology with special emphasis on various abiotic stressors (i.e., drought, salinity, heat, heavy metals, organic contaminants, etc.); stress mitigation strategies; roles of nanotechnology in sustainable agriculture and contaminated soil restorations; cytotoxicity and genotoxicity of emerging pollutants. She has earned her doctoral degree in Life Sciences with specialization in Botany from Guru Nanak Dev University, Punjab, India. She has presented her research work in various national and international institutions like the National University of Singapore, National Botanical Research Institute, Panjab University, IIT-Delhi, etc.

van Hullebusch, Eric D.
Eric D. van Hullebusch is a full professor in biogeochemistry of engineered ecosystems at the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Université Paris Cité, France. His research is currently focusing on the implementation of biohydrometallurgical approaches for the recovery of technology critical elements (including selenium and tellurium) as well as polluted soils (bio)remediation with a particular focus on poly- and perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS).