Environmental Management in India: Waste to Wealth

Introduction: Waste Management and the Agenda 2030 in the Indian Context.- Waste is Wealth: An Initiative Towards Recycling.- Possible waste to wealth technologies for mixed solid waste in India.- Characterization andValorization of Steel Slag (SS) as a Recycled Aggregates in Indian Concrete Industry".- Utilization Hazardous Electronic Waste - Waste to Wealth.- Application of green synthesis nanoparticles for the removal of metal ions from industrial waste.- Management of Solid Waste in Pharmaceutical Industries of India.- Erosion Management of Riparian Ecosystem in Coal Mining Area through Selective Vegetation.- Urban Solid Waste Management For Enhancement of Agriculture Productivity In India.- Potential for Energy Generation and Characterization of Municipal Solid Waste Generated in Himachal Pradesh, India.- Food Waste to Bio-Energy: A Clean Technology for sustainable Rural Development.- Development of Low cost microbial fuelcell for converting waste to electricity and abating pollution.- Recent Developments in Energy Recovery from Sewage Treatment Plant Sludge via Anaerobic Digestion.- Mitigating heavy metal pollution using bio-waste derived adsorbent from Pineapple Crown Leaves.- Synthesis, characterization and application of a bio-waste (Beal shell) derived adsorbent for heavy metal remediation.- Gold phytomining in India: An Approach to Circular Economy in the 21st  Century.- Management of Environmentally Stressed Areas in Watershed using Multi Criteria Decision Tool in GIS: A Noble Technique to Conserve Soil for Agriculture.- Conclusions and Recommendations.

Prof. Shalini Yadav is Professor and Head Centre of Excellence in Advanced Water and Environmental Research, Rabindranath Tagore University, Bhopal, India. Her research interests include solid and hazardous waste management, construction management, environmental quality, and water resources. She has executed a variety of research projects/consultancy in environmental and water science and technology and has got rich experience in planning, formulating, organizing, executing, and management of R&D programs, seminars, and conferences at national and international levels. She has got to her credit guiding an appreciable number of M.Tech. and Ph.D. students. She has published more than 10 journal articles and 30 technical reports. Dr. Shalini has also visited and delivered invited lectures at different institutes/universities in India and abroad, such as Australia, South Korea, and Kenya. She is one of the editors of seven books, namely climate change impacts, water resources management, groundwater, energy and environment, environmental pollution, hydrologic and modeling, water quality management which are published recently by the Springer under the Water Science and Technology Library. Professor Shalini Yadav graduated with a B.Sc. in Science from the Bhopal University. She earned her M.Sc. in Applied Chemistry with a specialization in Environmental Science from Bhopal University and M.Tech. in Civil Engineering with a specialization in Environmental Engineering from Malaviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur, India, in 2000. Then she pursued the degree of Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from Rajiv Gandhi Technical University, Bhopal, India in 2011. Also, she is Recipient of national fellowships and awards. She is Reviewer for many international journals. She has been recognized for one and half decades of leadership in research, teaching, and service to the environmental engineering profession.Prof. Abdelazim Negm is a professor of Hydraulics (and Water