Bioremediation and Bioeconomy - Softcover

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Dr. Prasad is Emeritus Professor, School of Life Sciences, University of Hyderabad (India). He has made outstanding contributions to the fields of bioremediation, bioresources, biomass energy sources, bioeconomy, and to the broad field of environmental biotechnology, all of which are his main areas of expertise. Dr. Prasad has served the Government of India’s Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change as a member of various advisory committees on biodiversity conservation, ecosystem services, pollution control and abatement, environmental information systems and bioremediation of contaminated sites. He is an active visiting scientist for several international universities.

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Presents innovative and cost-effective solutions to decontaminate polluted environments, including usage of contaminated land and wastewater for generation of useful products to boost bioeconomy and circular economy The second edition of Bioremediation and Bioeconomy: A Circular Economy Approach provides a common platform for scientists from various backgrounds to find sustainable solutions to environmental issues, including remediation of emerging pollutants and usage of contaminated land and wastewater for bioproducts such as natural fibers, biocomposites, and fuels to boost the economy. The need for transitioning to a sustainable use of natural resources is now more evident than ever as industrialization and pollution are global phenomena. On the one hand, biodiversity is being used as raw material for environmental decontamination, and this field has grown phenomenally in recent years, having emerged less than 3 decades ago. On the other hand, the volume of contaminated substrates (water, soil, and air) is increasing due to anthropogenic and technogenic sources of organic and inorganic contaminants. The second edition of this book will address the bottlenecks and solutions to the existing limitations in field scale and the relevant techniques. Key Features

• Provides a compilation of new information on bioremediation not found in other books in the present market
• The first book to link bioremediation, bioeconomy, and circular economy
• Includes strategies to utilize contaminated substrates for producing bioresources and co-generation of value chain and value addition products

About the Editor Dr. Majeti Narasimha Vara Prasad Honorary Emeritus Professor, School of Life Sciences, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India Professor Prasad received his PhD in Botany from Lucknow University, Lucknow. In the past, he worked as Lecturer at North-Eastern Hill University and as Lecturer, Lecturer (Senior Scale), Reader, and Professor at University of Hyderabad. He is a professional member of National Institute of Ecology, New Delhi, India; Bioenergy Society of India, New Delhi; and Indian Network for Soil Contamination Research, New Delhi. Based on data compiled and studied by John Ioannidis of Stanford University, Elsevier, and SciTech Strategies, Prasad figured in top 2% consecutively for three years (2020–2022). He has also widely traveled, with visiting assignments in various universities, including University Quebec INRS-Eau, Canada, NSERC as a foreign research awardee; Department of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, Jagiellonian University, Poland; University of Coimbra, Portugal; Stockholm University, Institute of Botany, Sweden; University of Oulu, Finland; University of South Australia, Australia; and as part of a Government of India deputation to Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand.