Environmental Concerns and Sustainable Development: Volume 2: Biodiversity, Soil and Waste Management

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The current global environmental crisis is primarily the result of non-standardized parameters for environmental regulation, and is impacting e.g. clean air, safe drinking water and the quality of food, particularly in developing nations. Due to their poor/lax execution of EIA protocols, newly developing countries are preferred destinations for establishing pollution-emitting industries, which results in the degradation and depletion of their natural resources. Lack of environmental policy intervention is another major incentive to base “dirty” industries in these nations. In order to ensure sustainable development, the highest-priority issues include the monitoring and eradication of environmental problems stemming from economic development; virtually every form of economic development primarily results in the loss of forests and thus biodiversity, followed by declining air quality and the contamination of natural resources. Sustainable development ensures responsible interactions with the environment, so as to minimize the depletion or degradation of natural resources and preserve environmental quality. It involves integrated approaches to understanding the importance of environmental management systems and policy measures that lead to improved environmental performance. This book addresses the environmental concerns associated with economic development, and with approaches to attaining sustainable economic development, which include monitoring the quality of water resources, soil erosion and degradation of the natural environment. Front Matter ....Pages i-xiv Threats and Conservation Strategies for Overlooked Organisms: The Case of Epiphytic Lichens (Paolo Giordani, Renato Benesperi, Elisabetta Bianchi, Paola Malaspina, Juri Nascimbene)....Pages 1-26 Biodiversity and Therapeutic Potential of Medicinal Plants (Prachi Sharma, Ritu Manchanda, Rajesh Goswami, Sanjeev Chawla)....Pages 27-44 Tree Ferns and Giant Ferns in India: Their Significance and Conservation (Niranjan Mishra, Sandip Kumar Behera)....Pages 45-62 Status of Medicinal Plants in Context of Arunachal Pradesh (Tonlong Wangpan, Sumpam Tangjang)....Pages 63-80 Nutrient Enrichment in Lake Ecosystem and Its Effects on Algae and Macrophytes (Divya Dubey, Venkatesh Dutta)....Pages 81-126 Land-Use Change as a Disturbance Regime (Ekta Purswani, Bhawana Pathak, Dhananjay Kumar, Satyam Verma)....Pages 127-144 Floristic Diversity, Distribution and Conservation Status in the Vicinity of Coal Mines of Kachchh District in Gujarat, India (Rohitkumar M. Patel, Ashishkumar, Mital J. Kaneria)....Pages 145-173 Sodic Soil: Management and Reclamation Strategies (Priyanka Gangwar, Rachana Singh, Mala Trivedi, Rajesh K. Tiwari)....Pages 175-190 Microbe-based Inoculants: Role in Next Green Revolution (Naveen Kumar Arora, Tahmish Fatima, Isha Mishra, Sushma Verma)....Pages 191-246 Environmental Significance of Lichens and Biodeterioration (Gülşah Çobanoğlu Özyiğitoğlu)....Pages 247-277 Reclamation of Saline and Sodic Soil Through Phytoremediation (Neerja Srivastava)....Pages 279-306 Soil Pollution by Fluoride in India: Distribution, Chemistry and Analytical Methods (Gayatri Singh, Geetgovind Sinam, Kriti, Maneesha Pandey, Babita Kumari, Mahiya Kulsoom)....Pages 307-324 Multielement Analysis Using ED-XRF and ICP-MS from Couroupita guianensis for Sustainable Agriculture by Soil Reclamation (Kalpna D. Rakholiya, Mital J. Kaneria)....Pages 325-335 Waste Management: A Paradigm Shift (Mala Trivedi, Manish Mathur, Parul Johri, Aditi Singh, Rajesh K. Tiwari)....Pages 337-363 Recycling of Agriculture Waste into Efficient Adsorbent (Sucharita Tandon, Nandini Sai)....Pages 365-379 Environmental Hazards and Management of E-waste (Shalu Rawat, Lata Verma, Jiwan Singh)....Pages 381-398 Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Municipal Solid Waste Management Practice (Nemit Verma, Manpreet Kaur, A. K. Tripathi)....Pages 399-408 Introduction to Fast Fashion: Environmental Concerns and Sustainability Measurements (Pooja Garg)....Pages 409-427