1st Edition
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 the 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 up global challenges and recourses conservation; and ecological approach to restore the damaged ecosystem.
Features:
- Compiles the possible nexus approaches that contribute to manage the atmospheric environmental variables in sustainable ways.
- Focusses 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 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.
Chapter 1. Management of Soil, Waste and Water in the Context of Global Climate Change
Kankan Datta, Swarnavo Chakraborty, Aryadeep Roychoudhury
Chapter 2. Potential Eco-Friendly Techniques for Water, Soil, and Waste Management
Muhammad Farhan Qadir, Khuram Shehzad Khan, Muhammad Naveed, Taqi Raza, Neal S. Eash
Chapter 3. Potential Role of Healthy Soil for Global Environment
Muhammad Farhan Qadir, Khuram Shehzad Khan, Muhammad Naveed, Noman Younas, Muhammad Yousuf, Muhammad Hamza Khalil, Azmat Qadir Maria, Taqi Raza, Neal S. Eash
Chapter 4. Soil Based Implication Approach for Environmental Nexus
Sonal Sharma, Anuj Saraswat, Neha Khardia, Rukoo Chawla, Shri Ram, Rajeew Kumar, Md Basit Raza, Kumar Gaurav, Biswaranjan Behera, Amit K. Dash, Abdel Rahman Al Tawaha
Chapter 5. Soil Security to Address Potential Global Issues
HinaFatima,Man Park,Muhammad Ameen,IqraAslam,TabindaAthar, Syed Shabbar Hussain Shah,Ghulam Hassan Abbasi, Muhammad Ali, Aisha AbdulWaris, Muhammad Naveed Arshad, Muhammad Ashar Ayub
Chapter 6. Making the Water-Soil-Waste Nexus Wor: Framing the Boundries of Resource Flows
Laila Shahzad, Faiza Sharif, Arifa Tahir,Umair Raiz, Maryam Ali , Masooma Batool, Ahmad Mahmood
Chapter 7. Nexus Approach: Resource Management for Soil Productivity
Rajneesh Thakur
Chapter 8. Climate Change, Profligacy, Poverty and Destruction: All Things are Interconnected
Laila Shahzad, Umair Raiz, Sadia Yousaf, Nimra Riaz, Rabiya Nasir, Qaiser Fareed Khan
Chapter 9. Soils' Role in Meeting Global Demand for Food, Water and Bioenergy
Chinmaya Kumar Swain, Kiran Kumar Mohapatra, Supratim Das, Pujyasmita Nayak
Chapter 10. The Nexus between Environmental Damage, Poverty, and Climate Change in Hard-To-
Reach Areas: A Somber Tale of the Twenty-First Century
Amitava Panja, Punam Bhattacharjee, Subhradip Bhattacharjee, Dinesh Kumar,Govind Makarana, Manish Kushwaha, M.R. Yadav, Rakesh Kumar,Vishnu D. Rajput
Chapter 11. Urban Soil Management for Improved Resource-Efficiency of Developing Cities
Mahima Dixit, Immanuel ChongboiHaokip, Bhabani Prasad Mondal, MuskanPorwal, Debabrata Ghoshal, Abhishek Mandal, B.P. Dhyani
Chapter 12. Potential Nexus Approach for Sustainable Soil Productivity Resource Management
Prithwiraj Dey, B.S. Mahapatra, Biplab Mitra, Arya Kumar Sarvadamana, Arnab Roy Chowdhury, Abhishek Rana, Diyan Mandal
Chapter 13. The Ecosystem Approach and Environmental Justice Nexus in Natural Resource
Management
Vikas, Rajiv Ranjan
Chapter 14. Soil: A Potential Source for Mitigating Food, Water and Bio-Energy Crisis
Kumar Chiranjeeb, Sachin Kumar, Ranbir Singh Rana
Chapter 15. Role of Soils for Satisfying Global Demands for Food, Water and Bioenergy
Bhabani Prasad Mondal, G. Bhupal Raj, Mahima Dixit, Tithli Sadhu, Vaibhav Pandit, Laxmi Prasanna, Arghya Chattopadhyay, Suman Dutta, Suchith Kumar
Chapter 16. Agriculture, Rural Poverty and Natural Resource Management in Less Favored
Environments: Revisiting Challenges and Conceptual Issues
L. Devarishi Sharma, Rahul Sadhukhan, Hiren Das, L. Banarjee Singh, Animesh Sarkar
Chapter 17. Environmental Resource Management with Reference to Global Climate Change
Suwa Lal Yadav, Dileep Kumar, Manish Yadav, K C Patel, Devilal Birla, Lakshman, Praveen Singh
Chapter 18. Management of Urban Polluted Soil to Enhance Resource Use Efficiency in Developing Cities
Yamini S, V.K. Paswan, Neha, S Rohith
Chapter 19. Engineered Nanoparticles for Plant Originated Environmental Consequence
Sushmita Thokchom, Guntamukkala Sekhar, Prem Kumar Bharteey, Sumit Rai
Biography
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.
