Soil Remediation and Plants

Prospects and Challenges

Inbunden, Engelska, 2014

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Beskrivning

The soil is being contaminated continuously by a large number of pollutants. Among them, heavy metals are an exclusive group of toxicants because they are stable and difficult to disseminate into non-toxic forms. The ever-increasing concentrations of such pollutants in the soil are considered serious threats toward everyone's health and the environment. Many techniques are used to clean, eliminate, obliterate or sequester these hazardous pollutants from the soil. However, these techniques can be costly, labor intensive, and often disquieting.

Phytoremediation is a simple, cost effective, environmental friendly and fast-emerging new technology for eliminating toxic heavy metals and other related soil pollutants. Soil Remediation and Plants provides a common platform for biologists, agricultural engineers, environmental scientists, and chemists, working with a common aim of finding sustainable solutions to various environmental issues. The book provides an overview of ecosystem approaches and phytotechnologies and their cumulative significance in relation to solving various environmental problems.

Identifies the molecular mechanisms through which plants are able to remediate pollutants from the soil
Examines the challenges and possibilities towards the various phytoremediation candidates
Includes the latest research and ongoing progress in phytoremediation

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2014-09-05
Mått:152 x 229 x 43 mm
Vikt:1 370 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:752
Förlag:Elsevier Science
ISBN:9780127999371

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Växtböcker inom Djur och Natur
Botanik inom Naturvetenskap och teknik

Mer om författaren

Dr Munir Ozturk is the Founder Director for the Centre for Environmental Studies, as well as previous Chairman of the Botany Department, both Ede University, Turkey. He is Vice President of the Islamic World Academy of Sciences, Jordan. Dr Öztürk has received fellowships from Alexander von Humboldt, and the Japanese Society for Promotion of Science. He has worked at the University of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, via a grant from National Science Foundation, USA. He also worked as a consultant fellow at the Faculty of Forestry, University Putra Malaysia and as a “Distinguished Visiting Scientist at the ICCBS, Karachi University, Pakistan. His fields of scientific interest are; Biomonitoring, Plant Eco-Physiology, Conservation of Plant Diversity, Biosaline Agriculture, Pollution and Medicinal/Aromatic Plants. He has acted as guest editor for several international journals like; The Malaysian Forester, Environmental Geology – Springer, Science and Business Media, Journal of Environmental Biology (4 volumes), Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences, Elsevier (2 Volumes).

Innehållsförteckning

1. Phytoremediation of Soils: Prospects and Challenges2. Soil Contamination with Metals: Sources, Types and Implications3. Phytoremediation: A Promising Strategy on the Crossroads of Remediation4. Phytoremediation: Mechanisms and Adaptations5. Phytoremediation: An Eco-Friendly Green Technology for Pollution Prevention, Control and Remediation6. Recent Trends and Approaches in Phytoremediation7. Evaluation of Four Plant Species for Phytoremediation of Copper-Contaminated Soil8. Role of Phytoremediation in Radioactive Waste Treatment9. Plant–Microbe Interactions in Phytoremediation10. Soil Pollution in Turkey and Remediation Methods11. Soil Pollution Status and Its Remediation in Nepal12. Transfer of Heavy Metals and Radionuclides from Soil to Vegetables and Plants in Bangladesh13. Remediating Cadmium-Contaminated Soils by Growing Grain Crops Using Inorganic Amendments14. Phytoremediation of Pb-Contaminated Soils Using Synthetic Chelates15. Spatial Mapping of Metal-Contaminated Soils16. Arsenic Toxicity in Plants and Possible Remediation17. Phytoremediation of Metal-Contaminated Soils Using Organic Amendments: Prospects and Challenges18. Soil Contamination, Remediation and Plants: Prospects and Challenges19. Improving Phytoremediation of Soil Polluted with Oil Hydrocarbons in Georgia20. Remediation of Cd-Contaminated Soils: Perspectives and Advancements21. Phytoremediation of Radioactive Contaminated Soils22. Heavy Metal Accumulation in Serpentine Flora of Mersin-Findikpinari (Turkey) – Role of Ethylenediamine Tetraacetic Acid in Facilitating Extraction of Nickel23. Phytomanagement of Padaeng Zinc Mine Waste, Mae Sot District, Tak Province, Thailand24. Effect of Pig Slurry Application on Soil Organic Carbon