Soil & Water Conservation

Pesticide Contamination in Freshwater and Soil Environs
Impacts, Threats, and Sustainable Remediation

Editors: Mohammad Aneesul Mehmood, PhD
Khalid Rehman Hakeem, PhD
Rouf Ahmad Bhat, PhD
Gowhar Hamid Dar, PhD

Pesticide Contamination in Freshwater and Soil Environs

Published. Available now.
Pub Date: July 2021
Hardback Price: see ordering info
Hard ISBN: 9781771889537
E-Book ISBN: 9781003104957
Pages: 388pp w/index
Binding Type: Hardback
Notes: 7 color and 8 b/w illustrations

Taking into consideration that the agricultural industry is greatly dependent on pesticide chemicals to deal with the damage caused due to pests, this new volume details the challenges along with the bioremediation and remediation measures, such as the use of beneficial microorganisms, polymeric nanocomposites for nanoremediation, phytoremediation, and more. It looks at pesticide contamination from agricultural activities in a variety of different environs and a selection of sustainable and eco-friendly remediation approaches. It provides a spectrum of concepts, ideas, and knowledge related to the detrimental actions of pesticides on the environment directly and on human beings indirectly and provides insight into sustainable and advanced pesticide remediation technology.

Pesticide Contamination in Freshwater and Soil Environs: Impacts, Threats, and Sustainable Remediation fills a gap in the available literature in this field and will provide valuable for academicians, researchers, agriculturists, and students.

CONTENTS:
Preface

1. Environmental and Pesticide Pollution
Hilal Ahmad Ganaie

2. Pesticide Contamination in Water: Perspectives and Concerns
Nowsheeba Rashid, Amir Hussain Dar, and Ifra Ashraf

3. Use of Pesticides in Agriculture: Impacts on Soil, Plant, and Human Health
Zia Ur Rahman Farooqi, Abdul Kareem, Muhammad Ashar Ayub, Muhmmad Mahroz Hussain, Nukshab Zeeshan, and Muhammad Tahir Shehzad

4. Pesticide Pollution: Management and Challenges
Suraj Negi, Aishwarya Rani, Allen H. Hu, and Sunil Kumar

5. Pesticides: Impact on Environment and Various Possible Remediation Measures
Anjali Pathak, Mahendra K. Gupta, Mir Sajad Rabani, Rachna Singh, Shivani Tripathi, and Sadhna Pandey

6. Bio-Pesticides: Importance and Challenges
Muhammad Fahad Sardar, Tanveer Abbas, Muhammad Naveed, Sulman Siddique, Bilawal Abbasi, and Khuram Shehzad Khan

7. Advances in Pesticide Bioremediation Technology
Gulzar A. Rather

8. Microbiological Aspects of Pesticide Remediation in Freshwater and Soil Environs
Rezwana Assad, Irshad Ahmad Sofi, Iqra Bashir, Iflah Rafiq, Zafar Ahmad Reshi, and Irfan Rashid

9. Application of Beneficial Microorganisms with High Efficient Biosorption Potential for the Bioremediation of Pesticide Contamination of Freshwater and Soil Environment
Charles Oluwaseun Adetunji, Osikemekha Anthony Anani, and Chukwuebuka Egbuna

10. Biological Disease Control Agents in Organic Crop Production System
Ajinath Dukare, Sangeeta Paul, Priyank Mhatre, and Pratap Divekar

11. Novel Forecasting, Bio-Indicator, and Bio-Remediation for Pesticides Contamination in Soil
Mohamed S. Khalil and Wael M. Khamis

12. Pesticide Pollution: Risk Assessment and Vulnerability
Saima Hamid, Ali Mohd Yatoo, Mohammad Yaseen Mir, and Azra N Kamili

13. Utilization of Biosurfactant Derived from Beneficial Microorganisms as Sustainable Bioremediation Technology for the Management of Contaminated Environment: Panacea for a Healthy Planet
Charles Oluwaseunadetunji, Osikemekha Anthony Anani, and Chukwuebuka Egbuna

14. Polymeric Nanocomposite for Nano-Remediation: Lab-to-Land Approach
Divya Chauhan, Neetu Talreja, Mohammad Ashfaq, Adriana Mera B, and Carlos A. Rodríguez

Index


About the Authors / Editors:
Editors: Mohammad Aneesul Mehmood, PhD
Department of Environmental Science, School of Sciences, Sri Pratap College Campus, Cluster University Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India

Mohammad Aneesul Mehmood, PhD, specializes in limnology and environmental toxicology. He has been teaching graduate and postgraduate students for the past two years in the Department of Environmental Science, School of Sciences, Sri Pratap College Campus, Cluster University Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India. He has been supervising many students for their MSc projects. In addition, he has published a number of papers in international journals of repute and a number of books with international publishers. He completed his doctorate from the Division of Environmental Science, Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences & Technology of Kashmir, with a meritorious certificate from the university. He received the Dr. Mumtaz Ahmad Khan Gold Medal and the Shri Bhushan Memorial Gold Medal for being a topper during his master’s program. He has qualified various national competitive tests in the discipline of environmental science. He was also awarded with an INSPIRE Merit Fellowship (JRF & SRF) by the Department of Science and Technology, GoI, during his doctoral program.

Khalid Rehman Hakeem, PhD
Professor, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Khalid Rehman Hakeem, PhD, is Professor at King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. After completing his doctorate (Botany; specialization in Plant Eco-physiology and Molecular Biology) from Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi, India, he worked as a lecturer at the University of Kashmir, Srinagar, India. At Universiti Putra Malaysia, Selangor, Malaysia, he was a Postdoctorate Fellow and Fellow Researcher (Associate Professor) for several years. Dr. Hakeem has more than 10 years of teaching and research experience in plant eco-physiology, biotechnology and molecular biology, medicinal plant research, plant-microbe-soil interactions, as well as in environmental studies. He is the recipient of several fellowships at both national and international levels. He has served as a visiting scientist at Jinan University, Guangzhou, China. Currently, he is involved with a number of international research projects with different government organizations. To date, Dr. Hakeem has authored and edited more than 35 books with international publishers. He also has to his credit more than 80 research publications in peer-reviewed international journals and 55 book chapters in edited volumes with international publishers. At present, Dr. Hakeem serves as an editorial board member and reviewer for several high-impact international scientific journals. He is included in the advisory board of Cambridge Scholars Publishing, UK. He is also a fellow of the Plantae group of the American Society of Plant Biologists, member of the World Academy of Sciences, member of the International Society for Development and Sustainability, Japan, and member of the Asian Federation of Biotechnology, Korea.

Rouf Ahmad Bhat, PhD
Assistant Professor, Cluster University Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India

Rouf Ahmad Bhat, PhD, is Assistant Professor at Cluster University Srinagar (Jammu and Kashmir), India, and specializes in limnology, toxicology, phytochemistry, and phytoremediation. Dr. Bhat has been teaching graduate and postgraduate students of environmental sciences for the past two years. He is an author of more than 54 scientific articles and 15 book chapters, and has published more than10 books with international publishers. He has presented and participated in numerous state, national and international conferences, seminars, workshops, and symposiums. Dr. Bhat has worked as an associate Environmental Expert in the World Bank-funded Flood Recovery Project and also as Environmental Support Staff on Asian Development Bank-funded development projects. He has received many awards, appreciations, and recognitions for his services to the science of water testing and air and noise analysis. He has served as an editorial board member and reviewer of reputed international journals. Dr. Bhat is writing and experimenting with diverse capacities of plants for use in aquatic pollution.

Gowhar Hamid Dar, PhD
Assistant Professor, Environmental Science, Sri Pratap College, Cluster University Srinagar, Department of Higher Education, Jammu and Kashmir, India

Gowhar Hamid Dar, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in Environmental Science, Sri Pratap College, Cluster University Srinagar, Department of Higher Education (Jammu and Kashmir), India, where he has been teaching for many years. He has a PhD in Environmental Science with a specialization in Environmental Microbiology (fish microbiology, fish pathology, industrial microbiology, taxonomy and limnology). He has published more than 40 papers in international journals of repute and a number of books with international publishers. He is guiding a number of students for their master’s theses. He has been working on the isolation, identification and characterization of microbes, their pathogenic behavior, and impact of pollution on development of diseases in fish fauna for the last several years. He has received many awards and appreciations for his services toward science and development. In addition, he also acts as a member of various research and academic committees.




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