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The soil is being contaminated continuously by a large number of pollutants. Among them, heavy metals are an exclusive group of toxicants because they are stable and difficult to disseminate into non-toxic forms. The ever-increasing concentrations of such pollutants in the soil are considered serious threats toward everyone's health and the environment. Many techniques are used to clean, eliminate, obliterate or sequester these hazardous pollutants from the soil. However, these techniques can be costly, labor intensive, and often disquieting.
Phytoremediation is a simple, cost effective, environmental friendly and fast-emerging new technology for eliminating toxic heavy metals and other related soil pollutants. Soil Remediation and Plants provides a common platform for biologists, agricultural engineers, environmental scientists, and chemists, working with a common aim of finding sustainable solutions to various environmental issues. The book provides an overview of ecosystem approaches and phytotechnologies and their cumulative significance in relation to solving various environmental problems.
List of contents
1. Phytoremediation of Soils: Prospects and Challenges
2. Soil Contamination with Metals: Sources, Types and Implications
3. Phytoremediation: A Promising Strategy on the Crossroads of Remediation
4. Phytoremediation: Mechanisms and Adaptations
5. Phytoremediation: An Eco-Friendly Green Technology for Pollution Prevention, Control and Remediation
6. Recent Trends and Approaches in Phytoremediation
7. Evaluation of Four Plant Species for Phytoremediation of Copper-Contaminated Soil
8. Role of Phytoremediation in Radioactive Waste Treatment
9. Plant-Microbe Interactions in Phytoremediation
10. Soil Pollution in Turkey and Remediation Methods
11. Soil Pollution Status and Its Remediation in Nepal
12. Transfer of Heavy Metals and Radionuclides from Soil to Vegetables and Plants in Bangladesh
13. Remediating Cadmium-Contaminated Soils by Growing Grain Crops Using Inorganic Amendments
14. Phytoremediation of Pb-Contaminated Soils Using Synthetic Chelates
15. Spatial Mapping of Metal-Contaminated Soils
16. Arsenic Toxicity in Plants and Possible Remediation
17. Phytoremediation of Metal-Contaminated Soils Using Organic Amendments: Prospects and Challenges
18. Soil Contamination, Remediation and Plants: Prospects and Challenges
19. Improving Phytoremediation of Soil Polluted with Oil Hydrocarbons in Georgia
20. Remediation of Cd-Contaminated Soils: Perspectives and Advancements
21. Phytoremediation of Radioactive Contaminated Soils
22. Heavy Metal Accumulation in Serpentine Flora of Mersin-Findikpinari (Turkey) - Role of Ethylenediamine Tetraacetic Acid in Facilitating Extraction of Nickel
23. Phytomanagement of Padaeng Zinc Mine Waste, Mae Sot District, Tak Province, Thailand
24. Effect of Pig Slurry Application on Soil Organic Carbon
About the author
Dr Munir Ozturk is the Founder Director for the Centre for Environmental Studies, as well as previous Chairman of the Botany Department, both Ede University, Turkey. He is Vice President of the Islamic World Academy of Sciences, Jordan. Dr Öztürk has received fellowships from Alexander von Humboldt, and the Japanese Society for Promotion of Science. He has worked at the University of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, via a grant from National Science Foundation, USA. He also worked as a consultant fellow at the Faculty of Forestry, University Putra Malaysia and as a “Distinguished Visiting Scientist” at the ICCBS, Karachi University, Pakistan. His fields of scientific interest are; Biomonitoring, Plant Eco-Physiology, Conservation of Plant Diversity, Biosaline Agriculture, Pollution and Medicinal/Aromatic Plants. He has acted as guest editor for several international journals like; The Malaysian Forester, Environmental Geology – Springer, Science and Business Media, Journal of Environmental Biology (4 volumes), Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences, Elsevier (2 Volumes).
