Soil Remediation and Plants: Prospects and Challenges - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 012799937X ISBN 13 : 9780127999371

Editeur : Academic Press Inc, 2014

Synopsis

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

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Dr. Ozturk is a Vice-President of the Islamic World Academy of Sciences from 2017 until 2021. He graduated from Kashmir University in India, specializing in Biology, Chemistry and Physics. He received his MSc from the same University in 1964. He obtained his PhD in 1971 and DSc in 1975 in Ecology and Environmental Sciences from Ege University, Izmir, Turkey. Dr. Ozturk's research interests include: Biomonitoring, Plant Eco-Physiology, Conservation of Plant Diversity, Biosaline Agriculture, Pollution and Medicinal/Aromatic Plants. His publications include over 50 books, nearly 70 book chapters, more than 200 papers in impact factor journals and more than 150 presentations in national and international conferences, workshops, symposium.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Academic Press Inc
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 012799937X
• ISBN 13: 9780127999371
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 752
• Éditeur: Hakeem Khalid, Sabir Muhammad, Ozturk Munir, Mermut Ahmet Ruhi
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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