General Agriculture / Environnemental Science/ Ingénierie
Vol 12: Climate Change et Sustainable
Description
Climate change is a substantial variation en global or regional climate patterns including average temperature, precipitation et wind. Le term has been more widely used avec change de temperature over past century as compared to variation en precipitation et wind. Man-made activities are largely responsible pour climate change all over le globe. Unfortunately le change is more rapid et dangerous than earlier estimations. One might say that this whole world is now one vast uncontrolled experiment. Le global mean temperature has risen by 0.7°C en last century leading to dire consequences en le form de heat waves, shrinking de glaciers, drop en average rainfall et a lot more. Further temperature rise may result en irreversible impacts sur our ecosystems et food et water supply. Sustainable development is a holistic approach that meets le needs de present generations within le carrying capacity de supporting ecosystem. This way development can be sustained pour generations. Le requisite sustainable technologies able to reduce climate change parameters upto 80% over a period de century are now available. There is a pressing need to apply these technologies across different sectors de economy right from resource extraction, processing, packaging, post-production to le generation, disposal et recycling de wastes. This volume presents a rich collection de articles sur causes et impacts de climate change sur our ecosystem along avec practically approachable sustainable technological solutions to mitigate le climate change problems. Un outline de le articles covered en this volume is as under: • Climate change et sustainability technology • Climatic impacts de aerosols • Catalytic conversion de greenhouse gases to control global warming • Remote sensing pour environment et climate diagnostics • Analyse de aridity en relation to climate et sustainability de cotton production en Inde • Climate change cause, impact, management et agricultural sustainability • Sustainability indicators de le emergent agronomic practices from Indien perspective • Progrès en production de GM crops en context de climate change • Land use change et climate change impacts en various agro-ecological settings en western Ghats et coastal plains de south Inde • Toward a conceptual framework de forming psychological safety climate en construction • Moisture conservation practices pour mitigating soil water stress under changing climate • Oleaginous microorganisms pour biofuel development • Microalgal culture as a sustainable technology pour management de CO2 emissions • Climate change impact sur water resources de Inde • Climate change et global water crisis Le present volume is comprised de 15 articles contributed by 33 academicians et active researchers from 4 countries, namely Hong Kong, Inde, Portugal et United States de America presenting an overview de le ongoing activities en le area de Climate Change et Sustainable Technologie.
Table des matières
Foreword to le Series, Editorial Board, À propos de le Editors, List de Contributors, À propos de le Series, Preface, Soil Pollution et Phytoremediation, Major Sources et Types de Soil Pollutants, Urban Soils Contamination: Study de Factors et Environnemental Monitoring, Effect de Soil Amendments sur le Mobility et Availability de Potentially Toxic Trace Elements en Phytoremediated Contaminated Soils, Behavior de Heavy Metals en Soils–Distribution et Mechanism de Interaction avec Soil Constituents, Phytoremediation: Un Overview, Phytoremediation de Heavy Metals by Catharanthus, Phytoremediation et Bioremediation de Contaminated Soils, Phytoremediation: Un Effective Tool pour Soil Health Improvement, Phytoremediation de Abandoned Mining Areas Using Native Plante Species, Electrokinetic et Electrochemical Remediation de Contaminated Soils, Levels Assessment et Origin Study de Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons en Organisms et Sediments, Adsorption de Heavy Metals Cations sur Bentonite et Bentonite/Iron Oxide Composite, Behaviour de Flazasulfuron et Tribenuron–Methyl en Organic Amended Soils Effects sur Soil Biologie, Phytoremediation et Bioremediation de Pb, Cu, Cr, Hg, Cd, Ni, Zn: Un Overview, Current Status de Eco-Friendly Techniques pour Heavy Metal Toxicity Removal from Polluted Soil et Eau, Appendix-I: Table de Contents de le Series Environnemental Science & Ingénierie (Vols. 1 to 12), Subject Index