Sustainable Agriculture Reviews 50 Emerging Contaminants in Agriculture

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.

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.