Ecological and Environmental Health Impacts

Climate change and environmental pollution represent some of the defining challenges of our era, with profound implications for human health, biodiversity, and planetary sustainability. Ecological and Environmental Health Impacts: Air Pollution, Hygiene, and Climate offers a comprehensive, interdisciplinary examination of the complex relationships between environmental degradation and human health outcomes, bridging the gap between environmental science, public health, and climate research. The book brings together experts to explore the multifaceted impacts of air, water, and soil pollution on human health—from respiratory and cardiovascular diseases to metabolic and neurological disorders. It uniquely integrates discussions of biodiversity loss, carbon sequestration, soil management technologies, and the cascading effects of natural catastrophes including wildfires, floods, and extreme weather events.Uniquely combines air, water, and soil pollution with biodiversity, climate change, and health impacts in one comprehensive volume, unlike narrowly-focused competing titles.Directly links environmental pollution to specific human diseases (respiratory, cardiovascular, neurological, metabolic, reproductive disorders), bridging environmental science and public health.Features self-contained chapters written by leading field experts, providing specialized, authoritative knowledge accessible independently or collectively.

Krishnarao Appasani trained as a molecular cell biologist, receiving Masters and Doctoral degrees in Biochemistry and Molecular biology. He worked as a research associate under the late Prof. Edward B. Goldberg at the Tufts University Medical School. Then, he accepted a Lectureship at Boston University and taught cell and molecular biology courses to undergraduates and graduate students. He also worked as a post-doc in the laboratory of Nobel Laureate, the late Prof. H. Gobind Khorana at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Subsequently, he joined faculty of Harvard Medical School and co-directed the Thoracic Oncology Laboratory at the Brigham & Women’s Hospital and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston. During this time, he completed an MBA at Bryant University, Smithfield, RI. And then moved to Perkin Elmer and directed the Microarrays group. At Perkin Elmer, Dr Appasani organized a global Biomics Seminar series to educate scientists and to initiate & develop collaborations with researchers in academia and other industries. For about 15 years he ran multi-million-dollar knowledge management enterprise and served as an international authority in bridging Academia and Industry by fostering inter-disciplinary and Translational Science. Dr Appasani has published about 60 research papers and abstracts in international journals, especially on Gene Expression. He was awarded the “outstanding investigator award” by the American Federation for Medical Research, Washington D.C., competed globally for the Ranbaxy (now Sun Pharma) Research Medal, and was honored with the “1997-Ranbaxy Research Award in the field of Applied Medical Sciences.” He edited twelve books, seven for Cambridge University Press and three for Humana and Eaton Press, and one for CRC Press. He is a member of the American Association for Advancement of Science. In 2016 Dr. Appasani was inducted as Life Fellow of Royal Society of Biology, England for his global efforts in promoting science education. From 2016-’20, he served as Science Adviser to the Chief Minister of the Government of Andhra Pradesh state in India, and as the founding chief executive officer of the Science City, a mega science-infrastructure initiative in India. In 2022, he was selected by the Prime Minister’s Office of India, and was bestowed with the “National Award for Outstanding Efforts in Science & Technology Popularization among Children”, the highest Science Communication award given annually on the National Science Day. Editor’s Brief BIO KRISHNARAO APPASANI is an award-winning Indian-born American scientist, educator, science communicator and the chief executive officer of GeneExpression Systems, a global conference-producing organization on biomedical and physical sciences. He is an elected life fellow of the Royal Society of Biologists, London, UK. Appasani is also the editor of RNAi (2005), MicroRNAs (2007) Epigenomics (2012), GWAS (2016); Optogenetics (2017), Genome Editing (2019), Single Molec