Dr. Prasad is Emeritus Professor, School of Life Sciences, University of Hyderabad (India). He has made outstanding contributions to the fields of bioremediation, bioresources, biomass energy sources, bioeconomy, and to the broad field of environmental biotechnology, all of which are his main areas of expertise. Dr. Prasad has served the Government of India’s Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change as a member of various advisory committees on biodiversity conservation, ecosystem services, pollution control and abatement, environmental information systems and bioremediation of contaminated sites. He is an active visiting scientist for several international universities. Kaimin Shih is currently serving as an Executive Editor (Co-Editor-in-Chief) in Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering (Elsevier), and Associate Editors in Waste Management (Elsevier), Sustainable Environment Research (Springer), and Cleaner Materials (Elsevier). Former Editor in The HKIE Transactions and Associate Editor in American Mineralogist (Mineralogical Society of America). He is currently leading an “Environmental Materials” research group working on metal oxides surface reactions, organic pollutant degradation, novel membrane and catalysts for air/wastewater treatments, fate and transport of emerging pollutants, water and resource recoveries, and metal oxide structural designs for environmental and energy applications.

• Chapter 1: Recovery of resources from biowaste for pollution preventionChapter 2: Destination of vinasse, a residue from alcohol industry – resource recovery and prevention of pollutionChapter 3: Biosolids enhances mine site rehabilitation and revegitation Chapter 4: Application of biochar produced from biowaste materials for environmental protection and sustainable agriculture productionChapter 5: Production and utilization of biochar from organic wastes for　pollutant control on contaminated sitesChapter 6: Municipal solid waste biochar for prevention of pollution from landfill leachateChapter 7: Removal and recovery of metals by biosorbents and biochars derived from biowastesChapter 8: Biodiesel production from wastewater using oleaginous yeast and microalgaChapter 9: Utilization of sludge as manureChapter 10: Energy & resource recovery from sludge: Full scale experiences Chapter 11: ChromiteChapter 12: Detoxification and resource recovery of chromium-containing wastesChapter 13: Asbestos: resource recovery and its waste managementChapter 14: Resource potential of natural and synthetic gypsum waste Chapter 15: Metalliferous waste in India and knowledge explosion in metal recovery techniques and processes for prevention of pollution Chapter 16: Resources recovery from wastewater based on extracellular electron transferChapter 17: Acid Mine Drainages from Abandoned Mines: Hydrochemistry, Environmental Impact, Resource Recovery and Prevention of PollutionChapter 18: Restoration of Smelter Industrial Barrens through Pollution Reduction Drives Economic RecoveryChapter 19: Methods for utilization of red mud and its managementChapter 20: Thermal behavior of red mud and its beneficial use in glass-ceramic productionChapter 21: Clay minerals: Structure, chemistry, and significance in contaminated environments and geological CO2 sequestrationChapter 22: Zeolite for nutrient stripping from farm effluentsChapter 23: Natural and surfactant modified zeolite for the removal of pollutants (inorganic mainly) from natural waters and wastewatersChapter 24: Treatment and reuse of incineration bottom ashesChapter 25: Coal fly ash utilization for boron management in soils, plants, and watersChapter 26: The crystallization of struvite and its analog (K-struvite) from waste streams for nutrient recyclingChapter 27: Phosphorus recovery from wastes