Bio-Inspired Land Remediation

Land is fundamental to the human life. The upper layer of land is a non-renewable resource, and source of food. Therefore, land health is essential to long-term food security and to promote sustainable livelihoods. On account of urbanization, industrialization and population growth, land pollution is one of the major issues worldwide. As a result, land pollution is continuing across the world, and has been linked with a wide range of potentially toxic contaminants at rates that deteriorate land quality. Land pollution can result either anthropogenic activities or natural activities. The major contaminants of land pollution are metalloids, petroleum hydrocarbon, radioactive elements, polyaromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), Pesticide, other organic pollutants, etc. that comes from different types of sources. In urban and peri-urban areas, irrigation of agricultural land with polluted water is also a reason of land pollution. Therefore, land security is an important issue for future sustainability. Its remediation and management are important issue worldwide to protect land quality and functions. Land pollution means degradation of earth's surface. Polluted land comes under the category of degraded land. Hence, the remediation of polluted land is essential for regaining biodiversity and ecosystems services and thereby achieving United Nations-Sustainable Development Goals (UN-SDGs).This fact showed the need to develop research into land remediation. Bio-inspired land remediation has undergone a huge development. Therefore, Biomanagement has a lot of potential to secure upper earth's surface through the land remediation programs targeted during the United Nations Decade of Ecosystem Restoration (2021-2030). This book will explore the remediation of land pollution that includes Phytoremediation, Bioremediation (bacterial remediation and fungal remediation), Vermiremediation, Biochar-based remediation and other Bio-inspired remediation. This book will be a remarkable asset for research scholars, environmentalists, ecological scientist, agriculturist, practitioners, policy makers, entrepreneurs, and other stakeholders alike.

Autorentext

Dr. Vimal Chandra Pandey featured in the world's top 2% scientists curated by Stanford University, United States. Dr. Pandey is a leading researcher in the field of environmental engineering, particularly phytomanagement of polluted sites/post-industrial lands. He has published more than 100 scientific articles/book chapters in peer-reviewed journals/books. He is also the author and editor of several books published by Elsevier, with several more forthcoming. Dr. Pandey is Associate Editor/Editor/Board Member of the prestigious journals Land Degradation and Development; Restoration Ecology; Ecological Processes; Environment, Development and Sustainability; Ambio; Environmental Management; and Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology by Wiley/Springer.

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Section I: Plants and Land remediation Chapter 1-Naturally growing plants based land remediation Chapter 2- Land remediation by introduced plants Chapter 3-Edible crops and land remediation Chapter 4-Non-edible crops and land remediation Chapter 5-Non-edible valuable crops-based land remediation

Section II: Microbes and Land Remediation Chapter 6-Cutting-edge tools to access microbial diversity and their function in land remediation Chapter 7-Endophytic microbes and their role in land remediation Chapter 8-Fungal based land remediation Chapter 9-Microbial detoxification of polluted land Chapter 10-Role of Cynobacteria in land remediation

Section III: Vermiremediation Chapter 11-Vermiremediation of metal(loid)s contaminated sites Chapter 12- Vermiremediation of sewage sludge Chapter 13- Vermiremediation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons Chapter 14- Vermiremediation of petroleum hydrocarbon( Kuwaiti oil ) contaminated soil Chapter 15- Vermiremediation of dyeing sludge from textile mill

Section IV: Biochar and land remediation Chapter 16-Biochar based remediation of heavy metal polluted land Chapter 17-Biochar and carbon sequestration Chapter 18-Remediation of organic pollutants with Biochar Chapter 19-Biochar for improvement of soil properties Chapter 20- Impact of biochar on plant growth and yield