Fiber Crop-Based Phytoremediation
Socio-Economic and Environmental Sustainability

A comprehensive overview of phytoremediation and utilization of polluted sites using fiber crops

Vimal Chandra Pandey (Author), Pooja Mahajan (Author), Purabi Saikia (Author), Ashish Praveen (Author)

9780128239933, Elsevier Science

Paperback, published 22 June 2022

248 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.7 cm, 0.45 kg

Fiber Crop–Based Phytoremediation: Socio-economic and Environmental Sustainability provides an informative source of information on using fiber crops for phytoremediation. Phytoremediation is gaining attention globally due to ever-increasing numbers and areas of industrially polluted sites. The major challenge is to develop new and cost-effective solutions to decontaminate polluted sites. In this regard, plant-based remediation, especially using fiber crops, is a promising and cost-effective approach for environmental remediation on a large-scale due to its socio-economic and ecological sustainability. Furthermore, changing environmental conditions also cause various biotic and abiotic stresses in fiber crops and thereby negatively affect the fiber crop establishment, growth and yield.

This book will be specifically important to these readers who need to be able to select specific fiber crop species according to site-specificity of the contaminated site.

1. Phytoremediation: Progress, potential, and prospects 2. Bast fiber crops in phytoremediation 3. Grass fiber crops in phytoremediation 4. Woody fiber crops in phytoremediation 5. Sustainability of fiber crop production from polluted land 6. Transgenic fiber crops in phytoremediation 7. Multipurpose uses of fiber crops—Societal, economic, and environmental development

Subject Areas: The environment [RN], Toxicology [non-medical PSBT]