Sustainable Agriculture Reviews 50

This book reviews contaminants of emerging nature affecting the agroecosystem and includes important information regarding the their sources, types, transportation, environmental threats and strategies to decontaminate the affected agroecosystems. The contents of this volume will help the policy makers and environmental engineers in combating the continuously rising threats to cultivated ecosystems.

Dr. Vipin Kumar Singh is a research associate at Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India. His current interest includes environmental contaminants and mitigation using biological approaches. So far he has published more than 50 research papers in the journal of national and international repute. He is the life time fellow of Indian Association of Hydrologists and Association of Microbiologists of India.Dr. Rishikesh Singh is an environmental researcher at Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India. His current interest includes environmental contaminants, and management of agroecosystem using living materials derived products like biochar. He is credited to publish more than 70 research publications in various international journals. He is serving as the Assistant Editor in the journal “Tropical Ecology”. He has actively reviewed the articles from different renowned journals of international repute.Dr. Eric Lichtfouse is a biogeochemist at Aix Marseille University who has invented carbon-13 dating, a molecular-level method allowing to study the dynamics of organic compounds in temporal pools of complex environmental media. He is Chief Editor of the journal Environmental Chemistry Letters, and the book series Sustainable Agriculture Reviews and Environmental Chemistry for a Sustainable World. He is the author of the book Scientific Writing for Impact Factor Journals, which includes an innovative writing tool: the Micro-Article.