Emerging Contaminants: Sustainable Agriculture and the Environment

Emerging Contaminants: Sustainable Agriculture and the Environment provides a thorough, comprehensive, and interdisciplinary overview of the many categories of emerging pollutants, including pharmaceuticals, insecticides, personal care items, and industrial chemicals, that are currently impacting the environment. With insights into the exposure associated consequences on crops and edible plants, this book is designed to enable foundational understanding as the basis for future research, as well as providing practical application guidance in current environments. Water resource shortages, declining arable land, environmental contamination with different exiting or ECs, shortcomings in the procedures for protecting cultivated land, and inefficiencies in the management of land tenure rights continue to pose challenges for agricultural sustainable development around the world. This book focuses on the impacts of ECs on sustainable agricultural production and explores possible response approaches. Following an introduction to environmental contaminants, this book discusses their fate in soils, presents the most up-to-date analytical methods for detecting them in different environmental matrices, and addresses current regulatory restrictions. Finally, this book ends with a chapter dedicated to conclusions and future perspectives. Emerging Contaminants is an ideal resource for researchers and professionals from a variety of sciences including agricultural, plant, and environmental. Focuses on the extensive emission of ECs raising concerns of toxicity in crop plants, in the environment, and also to human beings via the food chainIncludes examples and real-world insightsHighlights interaction of different categories of ECs with crop plants their toxicity and fate in the environment INDICE: 1. Introductory overview of emerging pollutants and challenges for environmental sustainability2. Insights into the analytical procedures for the detection of emerging contaminants from the water, soils, and sediments3. Occurrence of microplastics and nanoplastics in terrestrial ecosystem and their toxicological impacts in plants4. Occurrence of emerging contaminants in soils and impacts on rhizosphere5. Ubiquity of microplastics and phtalates in aquatic ecosystem and ecotoxicological conerns6. Phytotoxicity, cytotoxicity, and genotoxicity of pharmaceutical products along with their transport and fate7. Appraisal on accumulation of nano-enabled agrochemicals in plants with subsequent morpho-physiological implications8. Endocrine-disrupting chemicals exposure induced alterations in the germination, growth, and physiological traits of plants9. Nanomaterials induced phytotoxicity and challenges to agriculture10. Personal care products in agroecosystem: ubiquity, sources, and toxicity insights11. Contamination of arable soils with perfluorinated compounds and their exposure mediated modulations in plants12. Effects of veterinary antibiotics on the soil properties13. Pollution of silver and silver nanoparticles in the ecosystems and their interactions with plants and soil microbiota14. Perchlorate stress?in plants: Insights into growth and physiological consequences15. Contamination of arable soils with bisphenol-A and phthalates along with their consequent impacts on the crops16. Bioremediation of emerging pollutants: a sustainable remediation approach17. Exploitation of plants for the removal of emerging contaminants from the environment: a green technology18. Cyanotoxins pollution in waterbodies and soils impose potential risks to the surrounding flora

• ISBN: 978-0-443-18985-2
• Editorial: Woodhead Publishing
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 434
• Fecha Publicación: 28/03/2024
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés