Chapter 01 Sources and impacts of emerging contaminants in agro-ecosystems; Tanjina Hasnat Chapter 02 Sewage wastewater and sludge as source of traditional and emerging contaminants in agro-ecosystems; Vipin Kumar Singh, Rishikesh Singh, Ajay Kumar, Rahul Bhadouria, and Shilpi Pandey Chapter 03 Dew as source of emerging contaminants in agricultural system; Supriya Nath Chapter 04 Particulate matter pollution and global agricultural productivity; Sujit Das, Debanjana Pal, and Abhijit Sarkar Chapter 05 Dyes from textile industry wastewater as emerging contaminants in agricultural fields; Jatinder Singh, Parnika Gupta, and Anamika Das Chapter 06 Pharmaceuticals as emerging contaminant in agriculture: Source, transport, ecological risks and removal strategies; Jaskiran Kaur Chapter 07 Antibiotics and antibiotic resistance genes in agro-ecosystem s as emerging contaminants; Vipin Kumar Singh, Rishikesh Singh, Ajay Kumar, Rahul Bhadouria, Pardeep Singh, and Kin Israel Notarte Chapter 08 Soil Contamination by Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in the Agro-ecosystems; Rajni Yadav, Abhishek Kumar, Diksha Tokas and Anand Narain Singh Chapter 09 Emerging nano-agrochemicals for sustainable agriculture: Benefits, challenges and risk mitigation; Disha Mishra and Puja Khare Chapter 10 Transport of emerging contaminants from agricultural soil to groundwater; Khalid Muzamil Gani, Muntjeer Ali, Monika Dubey, Absar Ahmad Kazmi, Sheena Kumari, Faizal Bux Chapter 11 Fate and Transport of Engineered Nanoparticles as an Emerging Agricultural Contaminant; Tamanreet Kaur Chapter 12 Threats of Nano-Material Contamination in Agro-ecosystem; Amita Shakya, and Faraz Ahmad Chapter 13 Mechanism of toxicity of engineered nanomaterials and defense by the crop plants; Ranjana Singh and Kajal Patel Chapter 14 Non-Judicious use of pesticides indicating potential threat to sustainable agriculture; Ajay Kumar Mishra, Rahul Arya, Rakhi Tyagi, Dipti Grover, Jyotiprakash Mishra, Shobhit Raj Vimal, Sarita Mishra and Sheetal Sharma Chapter 15 Indigenous agricultural knowledge towards achieving sustainable agriculture; Anwesha Borthakur, and Pardeep Singh
Dr. Vipin Kumar Singh is a research associate at Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India. His current interest includes environmental contaminants and mitigation using biological approaches. So far he has published more than 50 research papers in the journal of national and international repute. He is the life time fellow of Indian Association of Hydrologists and Association of Microbiologists of India.
Dr. Rishikesh Singh is an environmental researcher at Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India. His current interest includes environmental contaminants, and management of agroecosystem using living materials derived products like biochar. He is credited to publish more than 70 research publications in various international journals. He is serving as the Assistant Editor in the journal “Tropical Ecology”. He has actively reviewed the articles from different renowned journals of international repute.
Dr. Eric Lichtfouse is a biogeochemist at Aix Marseille University who has invented carbon-13 dating, a molecular-level method allowing to study the dynamics of organic compounds in temporal pools of complex environmental media. He is Chief Editor of the journal Environmental Chemistry Letters, and the book series Sustainable Agriculture Reviews and Environmental Chemistry for a Sustainable World. He is the author of the book Scientific Writing for Impact Factor Journals, which includes an innovative writing tool: the Micro-Article.
This book reviews contaminants of emerging nature affecting the agroecosystem and includes important information regarding the their sources, types, transportation, environmental threats and strategies to decontaminate the affected agroecosystems. The contents of this volume will help the policy makers and environmental engineers in combating the continuously rising threats to cultivated ecosystems.