Hazardous Environmental Micro-pollutants, Health Impacts and Allied Treatment Technologies

This volume discusses hazardous environmental micropollutants, their impacts on human health, and possible means to mitigate their associated risks. The book features chapters that cover a variety of topics related to environmental micropollutants, which include dusts, infectious particles, heavy metals, organophosphates, atmospheric toxic organic micropollutants, fungal spores, pollutants from E-waste, antibiotic waste, and more. In addition impacts on human health and the environment, economic issues are addressed, with potential policy solutions offered. This work is timely, as hazardous micropollutants in soil, water and air are becoming more common, and this environmental contamination is leading to increasing instances of suboptimal human health outcomes. The book will be of interest to students and researchers in environmental pollution and remediation technology, microbiologists, and environmental regulators.

Analyzes key hazardous micropollutants in different environments and their impacts on human health Discusses allied treatment technologies to cope with the impacts of environmental micropollutants Covers policy actions to address micropollutant threats to the economy and human health

Auteur

Dr. Toqeer Ahmed is currently working as a Tenured Associate Professor at Centre for Climate Research and Development (CCRD), COMSATS University Islamabad (CUI), Islamabad, Pakistan. Since his education, he has worked at responsible positions in different Government departments and R & D organizations and received trainings from advanced countries like Germany, UK, China, Kazakhstan etc. He has more than 20 Years professional experience and more than 10 years post Ph.D. working experience. He has completed several national as well as international projects in collaboration with the University of Edinburgh, UK, D 8 Secretariat Istanbul, Imo State University, Nigeria, NRC, Egypt and International NGOs like UNDP, IISD, SDC etc. He has more than 45 research publications in peer reviewed research journals and 6 book chapters in the field of environmental micropollutants, food and water quality assessment, wastewater treatment, climate impacts on health and nano-biotechnology. Dr. Ahmed has lectured and presented research papers in both national and international conferences. He is currently working in the field of Environmental Microbiology, Climate Change, Water Management and Environmental Nanotechnology. He is on the Editorial Boards of few International impact factor Journals and active member of scientific societies.

Dr. Muhammad Zaffar Hashmi is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Engineering in the Department of Chemistry at COMSATS University Islamabad Campus, Pakistan. Dr. Hashmi works on multiple water, soil, air and health related issues, and has expertise in developing environmentally sustainable and feasible technologies.

Contenu
Chapter 1-Environmental Micropollutants.- Chapter 2-Infectious Diseases, Challenges and their Impacts on Human Health under Changing Climate.- Chapter 3-Marble Dust as an Environmental and Occupational Hazard.- Chapter 4-Impacts of Micropollutants on Economy and Main Spheres of Environment: Soil, Air and Water.- Chapter 5-Micropollutants Impacts and Preventive Measures to Reduce Diseases Burden among School Children.- Chapter 6-Emerging Organic Contaminants, Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products (PPCPs): A Threat to Water Quality.- Chapter 7-Environmental and Health Effects of Heavy Metals and their Treatment Methods.- Chapter 8-Organophosphates Pollution Status and their Remediation through Microbial Interaction in 21 st Century.- Chapter 9-Atmospheric Toxic Organic Micropollutants.- Chapter 10-Impact of Aerial Fungal Spores on Human Health.- Chapter 11-Health Risks Associated with Arsenic Contamination and its Biotransformation Mechanisms in Environment: A Review.- Chapter 12-E-waste Threaten to Environment and Public Health.- Chapter 13-Manufacturing and use of flame retardant chemicals and their impact on the environment and public health.- Chapter 14-Mycotoxins in Environment and Its Health Implications.- Chapter 15-Antibiotics; Multipronged Threat to Our Environment.- Chapter 16-Microplastic pollution and Their Health Impacts.- Chapter 17-Treatment Technologies for the Environmental Micropollutant.