Environmental Nexus for Resource Management

This book gives detailed information about how soil, water and wastes can be managed to overcome the various global issues via possible nexus thinking. The emphasis is on the environmental resource perspective of global climate change-related issues. It provides stepwise information on climate change and adaption strategies, urbanization and its impact and management strategies, environmental nexus approaches to cope with global challenges and recourses conservation and ecological approaches to restore the damaged ecosystem.

Features:

• Compiles the possible nexus approaches that contribute to managing the atmospheric environmental variables in sustainable ways
• Focuses on environmental resources perspective of the global change
• Covers how soil, water and waste may be managed in a nexus
• Explains modern strategies to manage the present environmental situation that are feasible and safe to the environment
• Discusses environmental nexus for judicious resource management

This book is aimed at researchers and graduate students in environmental sciences and engineering and sustainable development.

Hanuman Singh Jatav is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Soil science and Agricultural Chemistry, Sri Karan Narendra Agriculture University, Jobner Jaipur (Rajasthan), India. He has completed his M.Sc. (Ag.) and Ph.D. from Department of Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry, Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India. He has been awarded a Certificate of Gratitude as an Ambassador by IUCN: International Union for Conservation of Nature- Gland, Switzerland (https: //www.iucn.org/) in the World Conservation Congress during Global Youth Summit. Considering his work he has been also awarded Outstanding Assistant Professor of the Sri Karan Narendra Agriculture University, Jobner Jaipur (Rajasthan) India.

Tatiana Minkinais the Head of Soil Science and Land Evaluation Department of Southern Federal University, Russia.

Satish Kumar Singh started his professional career in 1990 as Lecturer of Agricultural Chemistry in Amar Singh (PG) College, Lakhaoti, Bulandshahr. Subsequently, he joined as Associate Professor G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar (Uttarakhand) in 1999 and as Professor at Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi in 2006. Prof. Singh is Fellow of Indian Society of Soil Science, New Delhi and Indian Society of Agricultural Chemists, Allahabad.

Bijay Singh, a soil chemist by training and one of the ten National Professors of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research during 2006 to 2012, is presently associated with Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana (Punjab, India) as INSA Honorary Scientist.

Vishnu D. Rajput is working as a Leading Researcher (Associate Professor), Head of ’Soil Health Lab’ at Southern Federal University, Rostov-on-Don, Russia.