Integrated Waste Management: Trends, Policies, and Perspectives

This book addresses multiple focus areas identified and provides solutions with respect to the circular economy, water pollution, potable water availability, reducing population impact on the environment, and better health by integrated waste management. It explains techniques to handle waste generation, characterization, minimization, collection, separation, treatment, and disposal, and includes chapters that address waste management policy, education, and economic and environmental assessments.

Features:

• Introduces waste management, pollution, and toxicity profile of potentially toxic environmental contaminants and industrial wastes.
• Describes field studies on the application of microbes and plants in bio/phytoremediation of environmental contaminants/industrial wastes.
• Reviews eco-friendly remediation techniques such as phytoremediation, vermi-remediation, nano-remediation, and myco-remediation.
• Presents recent advances and challenges in bioremediation research and applications in environmental management.
• Details underlying tools and techniques for sustainable waste management and (nature-based) solutions in each chapter.

This book is aimed at graduate students and researchers in environmental engineering and waste management.

Ali Mohd Yatoo (Ph.D.) pursued his M.Sc. (Environmental Science) from H.N.B. Garhwal (Central) University Uttarakhand and completed his Ph.D. (Environmental Science) from the University of Kashmir, India. He has more than 5 years of research experience and wide experience in waste valorization, waste and wastewater management, eco-toxicology, bioremediation, vermicomposting, composting, plant pathology, and organic farming. Dr. Yatoo has published more than 30 research and review papers, including book chapters, in highly reputed peer-reviewed scientific journals and has presented and participated in several workshops, seminars, and conferences. He is also a reviewer of various reputed international scientific journals. Dr. Yatoo has qualified various state and national-level competitive examinations like UGC NET (5 times) conducted by the University Grants Commission (UGC), Agricultural Scientists Recruitment Board National Eligibility Test (ASRB NET) in Environmental Sciences, and the Jammu & Kashmir State Eligibility Test (JKSET). He has also qualified CSIR NET with a Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) conducted by Council of Scientific & Industrial Research, Government of India. Dr. Yatoo has been the recipient of various fellowships and awards from several funding agencies.

Pankaj Kumar Gupta is a Ramanujan fellow, upholding one of the honored scientific positions at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Delhi, India. As a Ramanujan fellow, he has undertaken an exceptional project ＂Engineered Microbiome (E-Biome Project)＂, a unique combination of microbiology, hydrogeology, and chemical sciences for restoration of polluted sites, funded by the SERB, Govt. of India. He is also an adjunct assistant professor at the University of Waterloo, Canada.

Dr. Gupta is a contaminant hydrogeologist, after having completed his Ph.D. at IIT Roorkee, he has been a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Waterloo, Canada. He diversified his expertise in hydrogeology and soil-water quality during his Ph.D./PDF. He is the co-founder of the Society of Young Agriculture and Hydrology Scholars of India (SYAHI) and is also an editorial member of the Frontiers in Water Journal, Biochar, and Carbon Research. etc. He has also edited three books entitled Soil-Water, Agriculture, and Climate Change: Exploring Linkages, Advances in Remediation Techniques for Polluted Soils and Groundwater, Fate and Transport of Subsurface Pollutants.

Dr. Gupta holds his in-depth experience in incorporating novel technologies (viz. geophysical investigations, groundwater modeling, aquifer mapping, water quality assessment, microbiome, etc.) to map soil-water systems of 30+ sites in India. Dr. Gupta has also worked as a field officer at the Centre for Development Communication, Jaipur, and Salasar temple (Churu, Rajasthan) to improve water and wastewater management practices in the desert villages. Dr. Gupta is passionate about interdisciplinary research and teaching to understand multi-scale interactions between different components of the subsurface environment, especially the soil-groundwater-pollutant-microbes system.

He also teaches and guides Master’s and Ph.D. students with diversified knowledge. He has received an AGU Travel Grant (2017), JPGU Travel Grant (2018), and EXCEEDSWINDON and DAAD Germany Grant (2018). He has published more than 20 research papers, approximately 30 book chapters, edited two books and two popular science articles. He has reviewed several research articles for reputed journals. He is a core member of the Society of Young Agriculture and Hydrology Scholars of India (www.syahindia.org), a network of early-career researchers from around the globe.

Rajeev Pratap Singh, works in an area of waste management and has worked on various kinds of waste i.e. fly ash, sewage sludge, tannery sludge, palm oil mill waste, contained water irrigation etc. He has many publications in reputed journals on waste management and similar topics. Dr Rajeev Pratap Singh has received several international awards, like - ’Green Talent’ award from Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), Germany; Prosper.Net Scopus Young Scientist award, DST Young Scientist Award etc. Also, Dr Singh has co-authored 7 books and more than 50 highly cited research and review articles on different aspect of environmental science. Recently, availed Water Advanced Research and Innovation (WARI) Fellowship, a fellowship supported by the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Govt. of India, the Indo-US Science and Technology Forum (IUSSTF), University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) and the Robert Daugherty Water for Food Institute (DWFI). Dr Singh is also a Fellow of National Academy of Agricultural Science (NAAS), New Delhi. Dr Singh has also been awarded with Prof Archana Sharma Memorial Award 2020-2023 by ISCA, Kolkata at 108th Indian Science Congress, Nagpur on 7th January, 2023. Recently, Dr. Singh has been awarded with Prof. C. N. R. Rao Award for Excellence in Scientific Research by Banaras Hindu University.