Environmental Microbiology and Biotechnology

Chapter 1. Perspectives of Environmental Microbiology and Biotechnology.- Chapter 2. Towards waste valorization: A promising and sustainable approach of waste management.- Chapter 3. Bioplastics: A Green Approach toward Sustainable Environment.- Chapter 4. Microbial procession during decomposition of organic wastes.- Chapter 5. Electronic waste management: Challenges and opportunities.- Chapter 6. Heavy metal pollution: An insight towards its infiltration, impact and remediation.- Chapter 7. Biotransformation of Chitinous Waste into Value-added Products.- Chapter 8. Utilization and management of agricultural wastes for bioenergy production, weed control and soil improvement through microbial and technical processes.- Chapter 9. Plant Tissue Culture: Beyond being a Tool for genetic engineering.- Chapter 10. Microbial and Biotechnological approaches in the production of biofertilizer.- Chapter 11. A prelude of plant strategies to deal with the peril of salinity: an archive of regulatory responses.- Chapter 12. Prime techniques for Pre-and post-treatments of anaerobic effluents and solids.- Chapter 13. Nanoscale Materials and Their Potential Application in Potable Water and Waste Water Treatment.- Chapter 14. Efficiency of Graphene-based Forward Osmosis Membranes.- Chapter 15. Constructed Wetland: A Green Technology for Wastewater Treatment. 

Anoop Singh has a PhD in Botany (2004). He is a Scientist at Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR), Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India. Before joining DSIR, he worked at Technical University of Denmark, Denmark; University College Cork, Ireland; The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), New Delhi, India; Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI), New Delhi, India; Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India and VBS Purvanchal University, Jaunpur, India. He has visited several European countries and participated in several international conferences. He has published more than 50 research articles in scientific journals (h-index 27, citation 7187) and also published three edited books with Springer and CRC Press. He is a member of several scientific communities and serving as Editorial board member for a number of journals besides being a reviewer. His research interests are focused on sustainable agriculture, wastemanagement through agriculture, the utilization of industrial, agricultural and household waste for eco-friendly energy production, renewable energy and their life cycle assessment (LCA).

Shaili Srivastava is an Associate Professor in the Amity School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Amity University Haryana. Dr Srivastava has done masters and Ph.D. from G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology with specialization in Microbiology and Biotechnology. Before joining Amity, she worked as a lecturer in college and a postdoctoral fellow in Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Her research focuses on waste water treatment, degradation of PAH, remediation of heavy metal, microbial sequestration of CO2, biofuel and biosurfactant production, genomics and proteomics involve in CO2 sequestration and value added product formed by microorganisms. She had visited Murdoch University, Perth, Australia, as a visiting research fellow and attended various international conferences as a