Volume 1 (Pages 283)
ISBN: 978-93-5321-003-8 (Print)
ISBN: 978-81-942017-0-0 (Online)
DOI: 10.26832/AESA-2019-CAE
Price: 1550 INR / 100 USD
(Print version)
Contaminants in Agriculture and Environment: Health Risks and Remediation
Editor(s): Vinod Kumar, Rohitashw Kumar, Jogendra Singh and Pankaj Kumar
Brief Overview:This book is a forge guide to the students and researchers working in the field of agricultural pollution and seeking to get relevant material to understand the current trends of generation, impacts and remediation of pollutants affecting agricultural systems. The book provides the collection of most pertinent material about themes to the readers.
Tables of contents
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Chapter 1: An introduction to contaminants in agriculture and environment
Vinod Kumar, Pankaj Kumar* and Jogendra Singh
Chapter 2: Role of some emerging agro-chemicals in groundwater contamination
Ifra Ashraf*, Tanzeel Khan, Nowsheeba Rashid, Shazia Ramzan and Noureen Khurshid
Chapter 3: Organic wastes in agriculture: Risks and remedies for sustainable agriculture production
Sabah Parvaze and Rohitashw Kumar*
Chapter 4: Heavy metals accumulation in crop plants: Sources, response mechanisms, stress tolerance and their effects
Vinod Kumar, Jogendra Singh* and Pankaj Kumar
Chapter 5: Heavy metals in agro-ecosystems and their impacts on human health
Shefali*, Sudhanshu Bala Nayak and R.K. Gupta
Chapter 6: Human health risk assessment and mitigation of heavy metal pollution in agriculture and environment
Dinesh Kumar*, D.S. Malik , Sipahee Lal Patel and Varsha Gupta*
Chapter 7: Pesticides in agriculture and environment: Impacts on human health
Vinod Kumar and Piyush Kumar*
Chapter 8: A systematic review on global environmental risks associated with pesticide application in agriculture
Rohini Bhat, Manu Khajuria and Dalip Kumar Mansotra*
Chapter 9: Impacts of pesticide application on aquatic environments and fish diversity
Pradip Kumar Maurya*, D.S. Malik and Amit Sharma
Chapter 10: Pesticide applications in agriculture and their effects on birds: An overview
Ashish Kumar Arya*, Amar Singh and Dinesh Bhatt
Chapter 11: Impact of insect pests and pesticides on fruit productivity in Kumaun Himalaya, Uttarakhand, India
Manoj Kumar Arya* and Fasuil Farooq
Chapter 12: Groundwater pollution, causes, assessment methods and remedies for mitigation: A special attention to Indian Punjab
Mahesh Chand Singh
Chapter 13: Toxicity induced alterations as biomarker of environmental pollution
Kirandeep Kaur* and Arvinder Kaur
Chapter 14: Microbial degradation of plastics: Biofilms and degradation pathways
Saheli Ghosh, Asifa Qureshi*, Hemant J. Purohit
Chapter 15: Strategic framework and phenomenon of zero waste for sustainable future
Syed Rouhullah Ali* and Rohitashw Kumar
Chapter 16: Zinc oxide nanostructure and its application as agricultural and industrial materia
Satinder Pal Kaur Malhotra* and T.K. Mandal
Chapter 17: Application of husk charcoal for waste risk minimization by growing Acacia mangium (Willd.) on gold mining media
Basuki Wasis* and Kevin Assamsi
Chapter 18: A case study on changing pattern of agriculture and related factors at Najibabad region of Bijnor, India
Rakesh Bhutiani and Faheem Ahamad*
Chapter 19: Riverbed mining as a threat to in-stream agricultural floodplain and biodiversity of Ganges River, India
Nitin Kamboj and Vishal Kamboj*
Chapter 20: Climate resilient microbes in sustainable crop production
Raj Saini* and Sneh Sharma
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