Green Technologies and Environmental Sustainability

✍ Scribed by Ritu Singh, Sanjeev Kumar (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 494
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

In the present scenario, green technologies are playing significant role in changing the course of nation’s economic growth towards sustainability and providing an alternative socio-economic model that will enable present and future generations to live in a clean and healthy environment, in harmony with nature. Green technology, which is also known as clean technology, refers to the development and extension of processes, practices, and applications that improve or replace the existing technologies facilitating society to meet their own needs while substantially decreasing the impact of human on the planet, and reducing environmental risks and ecological scarcities. The concepts of Green Technologies, if endorsed and pervaded into the lives of all societies, will facilitate the aim of the Millennium Development Goals of keeping the environment intact and improve it for the civilization to survive. Green Technologies and Environmental Sustainability is focused on the goals of green technologies which are becoming increasingly important for ensuring sustainability. This book provides different perspectives of green technology in sectors like energy, agriculture, waste management and economics and contains recent advancements made towards sustainable development in the field of bioenergy, nanotechnology, green chemistry, bioremediation, degraded land reclamation.

This book is written for a large and broad readership, including researchers, scientists, academicians and readers from diverse backgrounds across various fields such as nanotechnology, chemistry, agriculture, environmental science, water engineering, waste management and energy. It could also serve as a reference book for graduates and post-graduate students, faculties, environmentalist and industrial personnel who are working in the area of green technologies.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
A Review and Perspective of Constructed Wetlands as a Green Technology in Decentralization Practices....Pages 1-43
Laccases: A Blue Enzyme for Greener Alternative Technologies in the Detection and Treatment of Emerging Pollutants....Pages 45-65
Biofuels for Sustainable Development: A Global Perspective....Pages 67-89
Greening the Indian Transport Sector: Role of Biodiesel....Pages 91-104
Microalgae Biofuels: A Green Renewable Resource to Fuel the Future....Pages 105-129
Harvesting of Microalgae for Biofuels: Comprehensive Performance Evaluation of Natural, Inorganic, and Synthetic Flocculants....Pages 131-156
Solar Photovoltaics (PV): A Sustainable Solution to Solve Energy Crisis....Pages 157-178
Biological Limitations on Glyphosate Biodegradation....Pages 179-201
Bioindication-Based Approaches for Sustainable Management of Urban Ecosystems....Pages 203-228
An Overview of Sustainable Dimensions and Indicators for Smart City....Pages 229-240
Need for an Integrated Approach Towards Environmental Quality Control in Developing Countries....Pages 241-258
Eco-Friendly Post-Consumer Waste Management Utilizing Vermitechnology....Pages 259-287
Recent Advances in Green Sustainable Nanocellulosic Fiber: An Overview....Pages 289-308
Metal NPs (Au, Ag, and Cu): Synthesis, Stabilization, and Their Role in Green Chemistry and Drug Delivery....Pages 309-337
Green Synthesis of Nanoparticles: An Emerging Phytotechnology....Pages 339-363
Green Analytical Techniques: Novel and Aboriginal Perspectives on Sustainable Development....Pages 365-394
Emerging Aspects of Bioremediation of Arsenic....Pages 395-407
Distillery Wastewater: A Major Source of Environmental Pollution and Its Biological Treatment for Environmental Safety....Pages 409-435
Ecological Restoration Techniques for Management of Degraded, Mined-Out Areas and the Role Played by Rhizospheric Microbial Communities....Pages 437-453
Biochar: An Emerging Panacea for Contaminated and Degraded Soils....Pages 455-476
Back Matter....Pages 477-492

✦ Subjects

Renewable and Green Energy;Biomaterials;Sustainable Development;Nanochemistry;Water Industry/Water Technologies;Agriculture