Bioremediation and Phytoremediation Technologies in Sustainable Soil Management : Volume 1: Fundamental Aspects and Contaminated Sites EPUB

Edited by Junaid Ahmad (Government Degree College, India) Malik, Megh R. (Point Pleasant, New Jersey, USA) Goyal, Khursheed Ahmad Wani

Part of the Innovations in Agricultural & Biological Engineering series

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This 4-volume set focuses on the use of microbial bioremediation and phytoremediation to clean up pollutants in soil, such as pesticides, petroleum hydrocarbons, metals, and chlorinated solvents, which reduce the soil's fertility and renders it unfit for plant growth. Volume 1: Fundamental Aspects and Contaminated Sites begins with an overview of phytoremediation and the role of environmental factors.

It goes on to introduce soil assessment techniques and offers methods of remediation designed to combat soil and agricultural degradation.

It discusses soils contaminated by heavy metals; microbial and phytoremediation-based removal of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) from coal, crude oil, and gasoline; microbial bioremediation and amelioration of pesticide-contaminated soils; phytoremediation techniques for biomedical waste contaminated sites; as well as biomediation processes for human waste sites.

Biopesticides are also explained as an alternative to conventional pesticides. Other volumes in the 4-volume set:â€¢ Volume 2: Microbial Approaches and Recent Trendsâ€¢ Volume 3: Inventive Techniques, Research Methods, and Case Studiesâ€¢ Volume 4: Degradation of Pesticides and Polychlorinated BiphenylsTogether, these four volumes provide in-depth coverage of the mechanisms, advantages, and disadvantages of the bioremediation and phytoremediation technologies for safe and sustainable soil management.