Overview
- Offers a wide variety of cases on arsenic contamination and remediation
- Details human health effects of arsenic contamination
- Details arsenic uptake in plants
Part of the book series: Emerging Contaminants and Associated Treatment Technologies (ECAT)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Source and Distribution of Arsenic in Soil and Water Ecosystem
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Health Risks Linked to Arsenic Exposure in Food and the Environment
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Sustainable Mitigation Strategies
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About this book
The book is comprised of three sections. The first section describes the routes of exposure to environmental arsenic and its transport in soil and aquatic ecosystems. The second section explains the health risks linked to arsenic exposure in food and the environment. The third section addresses sustainable arsenic contamination mitigation strategies using the potential applications of recent biological technology such as biotechnology, bioremediation, phytoremediation, biochar, absorbent, genetic engineering, and nanotechnology approaches. The book is intended for a broad audience including researchers, scientists, and readers with diverse backgrounds.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Dr. Nitish Kumar is Senior Assistant Professor at the Department of Biotechnology, Central University of South Bihar, Gaya, Bihar, India. Dr. Kumar completed his doctoral research at the Council of Scientific & Industrial Research–Central Salt & Marine Chemicals Research Institute, Bhavnagar, Gujarat, India. He has published more than 70 research articles in leading international and national journals, more than 20 book chapters and 10 books with Springer and Taylor & Francis. He has wide area of research experience in environmental Biotechnology and currently working on Arsenic remediation by the application of different biotechnological techniques. He has received many awards/fellowships/projects from various organizations, for example, the CSIR, DBT, ICAR and SERB-DST, BRNS-BARC, among others. He is an active reviewer for journals, including Biotechnology Reports, Aquatic Botany.
Dr. Muhammad Zaffar Hashmi
Dr. Muhammad Zaffar Hashmi is an Associate Professor of Environmental Science at Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, The University of Lahore, Pakistan. Dr. Hashmi works on multiple water, soil, air and health related issues, and has expertise in developing environmentally sustainable and feasible technologies.
Dr. Shuhong Wang
Dr. Shuhong Wang is Professor of Environmental Geotechnical Engineering at the Department of Civil Engineering, College of Resource and Civil Engineering, Northeastern University (NEU), China. He has published 1 book with Elsevier and several SCI papers.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Arsenic Toxicity Remediation
Book Subtitle: Sustainable Nexus Approach
Editors: Nitish Kumar, Muhammad Zaffar Hashmi, Shuhong Wang
Series Title: Emerging Contaminants and Associated Treatment Technologies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-52614-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-52613-8Published: 12 March 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-52616-9Due: 12 April 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-52614-5Published: 11 March 2024
Series ISSN: 2524-6402
Series E-ISSN: 2524-6410
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 294
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 28 illustrations in colour
Topics: Pollution, general, Environmental Chemistry, Environmental Health