Ecological and Environmental Health Impacts Air Pollution, Hygiene, and Climate

Editor List of contributors Foreword Preface SECTION I: Effects of Air Pollution on human health 1. Introduction on Ecological and environmental health impacts Krishnarao Appasani 2. Rural Aerosols and Their Importance in Air Pollution and Climate Change Manisha Mishra and Umesh Chandra Kulshrestha 3. Air Pollution and Health in India: Leveraging the Global Burden of Disease Framework for Tracking Progress Pallavi Joshi., Taruna Singh, and Sagnik Dey 4. Air Pollution and health impacts V. Sailaja., G. Nirmala Chakravarthy., B. Ashok Kumar, and M. Bhaskar SECTION II: Pollution from Water to Sanitation and Hygiene 5. Dynamics and Pollutant Impacts on Water Quality of the River Ganga: Environmental and Human Health Implications Matta, Gagan; Pant, Gaurav; Kumar, Pawan; Pooja; Tyagi, Shivangi; Saini, Rahul 6. Air, Water and Soil pollution in the Godavari River Basin with reference to Konaseema region - How it affects the health of people Peddineni V.V. Prasada Rao 7. Future management strategies for recurring floods in the Global South: Case study- 2018 Floods of Kerala with special reference to the largest Ramsar site, along the south western coast of India Regina Hershey N., S. Bijoy Nandan., Sruthy Sebastian, Aravind E. H., 8. Waterbody ecosystem in the Southern and Central India: An Eco Vision Indica, a Real Time Odyssey Pallavi Latkar, Stuti Borwanker and Sudipta Iyer SECTION III: Soil Pollution on Agricultural cultivation 9. Catastrophic effects of soil pollution on soil fertility and agricultural yield Seema B. Sharma, and Rupak Dey SECTION IV: Emerging Catastrophes Eco-Health and Plastic Pollution 10. Impacts of microplastics on corals: Threat to ocean ecosystem Md. Simul Bhuyan, Diponkor Adikari, Maroua Jenzri 11. Microplastic Pollution in Freshwater Ecosystems: Environmental Impacts and Health Implications Kuttanellor Roshni., Chelapurath Radhakrishnan Renjithkumar, and Suja Purushothaman Devipriya

Biography

Krishnarao Appasani trained as a molecular cell biologist, receiving Masters and Doctoral degrees in Biochemistry and Molecular biology. He worked as a research associate under the late Prof. Edward B. Goldberg at the Tufts University Medical School. Then, he accepted a Lectureship at Boston University and taught cell and molecular biology courses to undergraduates and graduate students. He also worked as a post-doc in the laboratory of Nobel Laureate, the late Prof. H. Gobind Khorana at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Subsequently, he joined faculty of Harvard Medical School and co-directed the Thoracic Oncology Laboratory at the Brigham & Women’s Hospital and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston. During this time, he completed an MBA at Bryant University, Smithfield, RI. And then moved to Perkin Elmer and directed the Microarrays group. At Perkin Elmer, Dr Appasani organized a global Biomics Seminar series to educate scientists and to initiate & develop collaborations with researchers in academia and other industries. For about 15 years he ran multi-million-dollar knowledge management enterprise and served as an international authority in bridging Academia and Industry by fostering inter-disciplinary and Translational Science. Dr Appasani has published about 60 research papers and abstracts in international journals, especially on Gene Expression. He was awarded the “outstanding investigator award” by the American Federation for Medical Research, Washington D.C., competed globally for the Ranbaxy (now Sun Pharma) Research Medal, and was honored with the “1997-Ranbaxy Research Award in the field of Applied Medical Sciences.” He edited twelve books, seven for Cambridge University Press and three for Humana and Eaton Press, and one for CRC Press. He is a member of the American Association for Advancement of Science. In 2016 Dr. Appasani was inducted as Life Fellow of Royal Society of Biology, England for his global efforts in promoting science education. From 2016-’20, he served as Science Adviser to the Chief Minister of the Government of Andhra Pradesh state in India, and as the founding chief executive officer of the Science City, a mega science-infrastructure initiative in India. In 2022, he was selected by the Prime Minister’s Office of India, and was bestowed with the “National Award for Outstanding Efforts in Science & Technology Popularization among Children”, the highest Science Communication award given annually on the National Science Day. Editor’s Brief BIO KRISHNARAO APPASANI is an award-winning Indian-born American scientist, educator, science communicator and the chief executive officer of GeneExpression Systems, a global conference-producing organization on biomedical and physical sciences. He is an elected life fellow of the Royal Society of Biologists, London, UK. Appasani is also the editor of RNAi (2005), MicroRNAs (2007) Epigenomics (2012), GWAS (2016); Optogenetics (2017), Genome Editing (2019), Single Molecule Science (2022), all published by Cambridge University Press, and some of them were translated into Japanese, Chinese and Arabic. He is also editor of Cryo-Electron Microscopy in Structural Biology (2025) that was published by Taylor& Francis/Routledge of CRC press.