Environmental Management in India: Waste to Wealth

Prof. Shalini Yadav is Professor and Head Centre of Excellence in Advanced Water and Environmental Research, Rabindranath Tagore University, Bhopal, India. Her research interests include solid and hazardous waste management, construction management, environmental quality, and water resources. She has executed a variety of research projects/consultancy in environmental and water science and technology and has got rich experience in planning, formulating, organizing, executing, and management of R&D programs, seminars, and conferences at national and international levels. She has got to her credit guiding an appreciable number of M.Tech. and Ph.D. students. She has published more than 10 journal articles and 30 technical reports. Dr. Shalini has also visited and delivered invited lectures at different institutes/universities in India and abroad, such as Australia, South Korea, and Kenya. She is one of the editors of seven books, namely climate change impacts, water resources management, groundwater, energy and environment, environmental pollution, hydrologic  and modeling, water quality management which are published recently by the Springer under the Water Science and Technology Library. Professor Shalini Yadav graduated with a B.Sc. in Science from the Bhopal University. She earned her M.Sc. in Applied Chemistry with a specialization in Environmental Science from Bhopal University and M.Tech. in Civil Engineering with a specialization in Environmental Engineering from Malaviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur, India, in 2000. Then she pursued the degree of Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from Rajiv Gandhi Technical University, Bhopal, India in 2011. Also, she is Recipient of national fellowships and awards. She is Reviewer for many international journals. She has been recognized for one and half decades of leadership in research, teaching, and service to the environmental engineering profession.Prof. Abdelazim Negm is a professor of Hydraulics (and Water Resources) in the Water and Water Structures Engineering Department at the Faculty of Engineering at Zagazig University (ZU). He worked as a demonstrator in the Faculty of Engineering, ZU in 1986 and continued there until he occupied the position of Vice Dean for Academic and Student Affairs. He worked for the Egypt–Japan University of Science and Technology (E-JUST) as a professor of Water Resources from  December 2012 until September 2016, and was chairperson of the Environmental Engineering Department at E-JUST from March 2013 until March 2016. Professor Negm has published more than 350 scientific papers in national and international journals and conferences and about fifty book chapters. He has participated in more than 99 conferences and was a keynote speaker at several national and international conferences. He has been awarded prizes for best papers three times. His research areas include hydraulics, hydrology, and water resources. Currently, he is very interested in sustainability studies, sustainable development, and the green environment in addition to water resources management. Professor Negm is a member of IAHR and is the head of the Egyptian permanent scientific committee for Water Resources for the promotion of associate and professorship positions for the cycle 2019–2022, and was the Vice Head for the cycle 2016–2019. He is a member of the editorial board of several scientific journals and international conferences and was a member of the organizing committee of Oceanography 2015, and IWTC2013-IWTC2017, and others. Additionally, he was Secretary-General of the IWTC from 2013 until 2017, then a member of the scientific committee. He was the head of the ZU committee for the assessment of the scientific publications of ZU faculties until December 2018. Recently, he published more than 35 contributed edited volumes by  Springer publishing House in Handbook of Environmental chemistry, Springer Water, Geophysics, Earth and Environmental Sciences Library, …etc.) Currently, he is organizing several contributed volumes to be published by Springer International Publishing during 2022/2023. He was the editor-in-chief of EIJEST (Faculty of Engineering, Zagazig University from 2016 to 2020), associate editor of IWTJ (IWTA) and EMJEI (Springer), and guest lead editor of AJGS–Springer, Sustainability Journal (MDPI), EJRSSS (Elsevier) and Scientific African Journal (Elsevier) and a member of the editorial board in others. He is the principal investigator of several international projects with UK, Italy and USA colleagues based on institutional collaboration. Currently, he is a member of the editorial board of the HEC series. Professor Negm is listed in: Marquis’ Who’s Who? for more than ten years until now; IBC’s 2000 Outstanding Intellectuals of the 21st Century; and the ABI  directory for his achievement in the fields of hydraulics and water resources. He has been nominated for many other awards from both IBC and ABI. .  Prof. R N Yadava holds position of Director of Research and International Affairs in Madhyanchal Professional University, Bhopal (M.P.), India and Advisor of Patel Group of Institutions, India. He has worked as Advisor of AISECT Group of Universities and Founding Vice Chancellor of the AISECT University, Hazaribag (Jharkhand), India; and as Director Gr. Scientist at the Natural Resources Development Center of the CSIR-AMPRI, Bhopal (M.P.), India including a founding member of CSIR_AMPRI, Bhopal (M.P.), India. His research interests include solid mechanics, environmental quality and water resources, hydrologic modeling, environmental sciences, and R&D planning and management. Dr. Yadava has executed a variety of research/consultancy projects in the area of water resources planning and management, environment, remote sensing, mathematical modeling, technology forecasting, etc. He has adequate experience in establishing institutes/organizations such as research institution, academic organization, etc. Also he has adequate experience in planning, formulating, organizing, executing and management of R&D programs including organizing seminars/symposia/conferences at national and international levels. He has got to his credit guiding a number of M. Tech. and Ph.D. students in the area of mathematical sciences and earth sciences. Dr. Yadava has visited and delivered invited lectures at different institutes/universities in India as well as in abroad in the various countries such as USA, Canada, UK, Thailand, Germany, South Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, South Africa, Costa Rica,  The Netherlands, France, China, and Australia. He earned a M.Sc. degree in Mathematics with specialization in Special Functions and Relativity from Banaras Hindu University, India, in 1970 and a Ph.D. degree in Mathematics with specialization in Solid Mechanics from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India, in 1975. Also, he is Recipient of Raman Research Fellowship and other awards. Dr. Yadava has been recognized for three and half decades of leadership in research and service to the hydrologic, environment and water resources profession. Dr. Yadava’s contribution to the state of the art has been significant in many different specialty areas, including water resources management, environmental sciences, irrigation science, soil and water conservation engineering, and mathematical modeling. He has published more than 90 journal articles; four text books; fourteen edited reference books. He is reviewer of scientific journals and member of the scientific committee of international conferences. Also he holds position of Vice President of International Association of Water, Environment, Energy and Society.

• Introduction: Waste Management and the Agenda 2030 in the Indian Context.- Waste is Wealth: An Initiative Towards Recycling.- Possible waste to wealth technologies for mixed solid waste in India.- Characterization andValorization of Steel Slag (SS) as a Recycled Aggregates in Indian Concrete Industry”.- Utilization Hazardous Electronic Waste – Waste to Wealth.- Application of green synthesis nanoparticles for the removal of metal ions from industrial waste.- Management of Solid Waste in Pharmaceutical Industries of India.- Erosion Management of Riparian Ecosystem in Coal Mining Area through Selective Vegetation.- Urban Solid Waste Management For Enhancement of Agriculture Productivity In India.- Potential for Energy Generation and Characterization of Municipal Solid Waste Generated in Himachal Pradesh, India.- Food Waste to Bio-Energy: A Clean Technology for sustainable Rural Development.- Development of Low cost microbial fuelcell for converting waste to electricity and abating pollution.- Recent Developments in Energy Recovery from Sewage Treatment Plant Sludge via Anaerobic Digestion.- Mitigating heavy metal pollution using bio-waste derived adsorbent from Pineapple Crown Leaves.- Synthesis, characterization and application of a bio-waste (Beal shell) derived adsorbent for heavy metal remediation.- Gold phytomining in India: An Approach to Circular Economy in the 21st  Century.- Management of Environmentally Stressed Areas in Watershed using Multi Criteria Decision Tool in GIS: A Noble Technique to Conserve Soil for Agriculture.- Conclusions and Recommendations.