Arsenic Water Resources Contamination (eBook)

Challenges and Solutions

Ali Fares, Sushant K. Singh (Herausgeber)

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2019
VIII, 305 Seiten
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-21258-2 (ISBN)

Infos

This edited volume brings together a diverse group of environmental science, sustainability and health researchers to address the challenges posed by global mass poisoning caused by arsenic water contamination. The book sheds light on this global environmental issue, and proposes solutions to aquatic contamination through a multi-disciplinary lens and case studies from Bangladesh and India. The book may serve as a reference to environment and sustainability researchers, students and policy makers.

Part one of the book describes the issue of arsenic contamination in ground water and river basins, including its source and distribution in specific locations in India. Part two explains the routes of exposure to environmental arsenic, its transport in aquatic ecosystems, and the health risks linked to arsenic exposure in food and the environment. Part three addresses sustainable arsenic contamination mitigation strategies and policies, the socioeconomic, demographic, cultural and psychological aspects of arsenic contamination, and the potential applications of GIS and remote sensing in providing solutions. Part four concludes by discussing the role of local and regional institutions in water resources management for a variety of issues including but not limited to arsenic contamination, and presents a case study in the Indus river basin in Pakistan to propose future contamination mitigation strategies.

Ali Fares is the Interim Vice President of Research, Innovation, and Sponsored Programs and Professor of Water Security at Prairie View A&M University, Texas. He is currently the editor of the Water Security Book Series and edited two books. In addition, he published 14 book chapters, over 20 conference proceedings, and over 74 articles in peer reviewed journals. His research interests include disaster preparedness and resiliency, flood prediction and mitigation, water security, water-energy-food nexus, watershed hydrology and management, water allocation, irrigation management, and adaptation and mitigation of climate variability.

Dr. Sushant Singh is the lead artificial intelligence and machine learning scientist in the Department of Health, Insurance and Life Sciences at Virtusa Corporation, New York. He earned two PhD degrees: one in Environmental Science from India and another in Environmental Management in the US. He authored more than 30 peer reviewed journal articles, two books, three book chapters, two conference proceedings, one encyclopedia entry, and over 25 international presentations. His research interests include the application of artificial intelligence in health, insurance, life sciences, and environmental sustainability.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 2.7.2019
• Reihe/Serie: Advances in Water Security
• Reihe/Serie: Advances in Water Security
• Zusatzinfo: VIII, 305 p. 59 illus., 53 illus. in color.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Bauwesen
• Schlagworte: Aquatic ecosystem transport • Arsenic exposure health risks • Arsenic policy in India • GIS water analysis • Ground water arsenic contamination • Indus river basin • Red river basin • Remote sensing water quality • Rural Bangladesh • Sustainable arsenic mitigation • Water pollution source tracking • Water Quality and Water Pollution
• ISBN-10: 3-030-21258-0 / 3030212580
• ISBN-13: 978-3-030-21258-2 / 9783030212582