Sustainability: Science, Policy, and Practice in India
Challenges and Opportunities
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Anthropogenic disturbances influence mineral and elemental constituents of freshwater lake sediments
Lake sediments can provide valuable insights into anthropogenic disturbances such as intensive aquaculture and land use changes. These disturbances often manifest as elevated levels of nutrients and elements w...
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Restoration and Rejuvenation of Rivers, Streams and Wetlands: Challenges and Way Forward
It is vital for the existence and survival of humans to have access to the satisfactory quality and adequate quantity of water. Inland water bodies were considered as community asset or resource over the centu...
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Sustainability as the Development Paradigm: Evolving Frames and Interpretations
The concept of sustainability has evolved over time to encompass a broader range of issues and perspectives, and this evolution continues as new challenges and opportunities arise. There are several gaps and c...
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Wastewater-based epidemiology: a new frontier for tracking environmental persistence and community transmission of COVID-19
Recent research in many parts of the world has pointed towards evidence of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in both treated and raw municipal wastewater discharged by communities. Therefore, concerns regarding it being a possib...
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Constructed wetlands for the removal of pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) from wastewater: origin, impacts, treatment methods, and SWOT analysis
The continuous exposure to pharmaceuticals and personal care products can lead to a series of individual antagonistic and synergistic effects and long-lasting toxicity to humans and aquatic lives. This may als...
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Integration of Constructed Wetland Microcosms with Available Wastewater Treatment Technologies for the Polishing of Domestic Wastewater and Their Potential Reuses
Different constructed wetland microcosm units have been designed in single as well as in combinations to study their performance for domestic wastewater treatment. Further, the integration potential of constru...
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Open AccessIn-situ anatomical and elemental response of aquatic macrophytes against nutrient enrichment in freshwater tropical lakes
Nutrient enrichment in lakes due to municipal wastewater discharge and agricultural run-off leads to excessive growth of algae and aquatic macrophytes leading to their altered trophic states. This paper presen...
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Indoor Air Quality Monitoring of Urban and Rural Households of a North Indian City During Cooking Hours
The present study aims to study the indoor and outdoor air quality in an urban center and its immediate rural areas. The measurements of particulate matter (PM10 and PM2.5) and the Air Quality Index (AQI) during ...
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Reassessment of drought management policies for India: learning from Israel, Australia, and China
Drought is a gradually cree** complex ecological challenge that affects people more than any other natural hazards by causing tremendous loss to agriculture, environment, and other sectors. Occurrence of dro...
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Long-term sustainability of groundwater resources in the central Ganga Alluvial Plain, India: Study from Gomti River Basin
Groundwater is the major primary source of drinking and irrigation water for nearly 500 million inhabitants in both rural and urban areas of the Ganga Alluvial Plain (GAP) in India. Indiscriminate pum** of g...
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Recent advances in satellite map** of global air quality: evidences during COVID-19 pandemic
There was a significant decline in air pollution in different parts of the world due to enforcement of lockdown by many countries to check the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. In particular, comm...
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Management of waste tyres: properties, life cycle assessment and energy generation
The increased demand and production of tyres led to vast quantities of discarded tyres. Landfilling and open burning of waste tyres (WT) are associated with significant environmental implications. Life cycle a...
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Introduction
The introductory chapter discusses the theoretical issues and the interlinkages between the title ‘environment, development and sustainability’. Further, it uncovers the main crisis and risks which are looming...
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Removal of nutrients from domestic wastewater using constructed wetlands: assessment of suitable environmental and operational conditions
Constructed wetlands (CWs) offer an eco-friendly wastewater treatment technology primarily for decentralized locations. They support a dense growth of macrophytes which help in the reduction of water velocity,...
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Tree Community Assemblage and Abiotic Variables in Tropical Moist Deciduous Forest of Himalayan Terai Eco-Region
The Himalayan foothills in northern India form one of the distinct eco-climatic regions of the world which affect plant communities. This study aims to analyse tree community assemblage along with associated a...
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Aquatic nanotoxicology: impact of carbon nanomaterials on algal flora
Currently, different nanomaterials are being used in various commercial products in different sectors. Among them, carbon nanomaterials are one of the most promising engineered nanoforms of material. The excel...
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Impact on endangered Gangetic dolphins due to construction of waterways on the river Ganga, India: an overview
The charismatic Gangetic dolphin, Platanista gangetica gangetica, is distributed in the Ganges–Brahmaputra–Meghna and Karnaphuli–Sangu river systems of India, Bangladesh and Nepal. The Gangetic dolphin is an impo...
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Biopesticides in India: technology and sustainability linkages
Despite enhancing the crop yields, the so called green revolution (GR) has proven unsuccessful in assuring long term agricultural sustainability. The methods used for productivity enhancement during GR have no...
