Water Footprints and Sustainable Development serves as the sole comprehensive volume of the role of waste management for sustainable development. It provides an overview of Global Scenario of water footprints in water smart cities and technologies and investigates the critical factors that enable the sustainable developments of various industries in respect to water resources management. The goal of this book is to introduce the reader to the current technologies used for reducing water footprints, and to offer the necessary information and tools for sustainable development.
1. Increasing water footprints: the NextGen Sustainability Challenge
2. Assessment of water footprints in different sectors
3. Comparative water footprint analysis of rural and urban areas
4. Drivers of the Growing Water footprint: A global scenario
5. Global Scenario of Water footprints in water smart cities
6. Water footprints towards global environmental sustainability
7. Industrial water conservation by water footprint and sustainable development goals
8. Sustainable Water Allocation and Water Footprints
9. Equitable water uses and environmental sustainability
10. Agriculture, Water footprints and virtual water trade nexus
11. Water footprint and power generation
12. Potentials and limitations of water footprints for gauging environmental sustainability
13. Strategies for the reduction of water footprints
Dr. Suhaib A. Bandh is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Science at Govt. Degree College DH Pora, teaching the courses of Environmental Science and Disaster Management. He is a member of the Academy of Plant Sciences India and National Environmental Science Academy. He is a recipient of many awards. He has participated in several national and international conferences held by different reputed scientific bodies in India and abroad. He has a few monographs and several scientific publications to his credit, published in some highly reputed and impacted journals, which attest to his scientific insight, fine experimental skills, and outstanding writing skills. Dr Bandh has recently edited and authored around 18 books including:
Freshwater Microbiology: Perspectives of Lake Bacterial Dynamics with Elsevier Press, https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-817495-1.00001-3
Environmental Management: Environmental Issue, awareness, and abatement with Springer Press
Perspectives of Environmental Science with Callisto Reference.
Currently Dr. Bandh is currently working on several book Project like
Climate Change and Microbial Diversity: Impact and Vulnerability with AAP/CRC Press, a Taylor & Francis Group.
Climate Change and Microbes: Construction of Sustainable Future with AAP/CRC Press, a Taylor & Francis Group.
Climate Change: the social and scientific construct with Springer Nature
Freshwater Biodiversity with AAP/CRC Press, a Taylor & Francis Group.
Freshwater Mycology: Perspectives of fungal dynamics in freshwater ecosystems ISBN: 9780323998208. Elsevier Inc. USA. https://www.elsevier.com/books/freshwater-mycology/bandh/978-0-323-91232-7
Valorization of Microalgal Biomass and Wastewater Treatment by Suhaib A. Bandh and Fayaz A. Malla. ISBN: 9780323918695. Elsevier Inc. USA. https://www.elsevier.com/books/valorisation-of-microalgal-biomass-and-wastewa ter-treatment/bandh/978-0-323-91869-5
Bifuels in Environmental Sustainability by Khalid Rehman Hakeem, Suhaib A. Bandh, Fayaz A. Malla and Mohammad Aneesul Mehmood. ISBN: 9780323911597. Elsevier Inc. USA. https://www.elsevier.com/books/environmental-sustainability-of-biofuels/hakee m/978-0-323-91159-7
Biofuels in Circular Economy with Springer Nature
Dr. Bandh holds a bachelor's degree from Sri Pratap College Srinagar, a master's degree in Environmental Science from the University of Kashmir, an M. Phil degree from Awadhesh Pratap Singh University Rewa (M.P), and a Ph.D. in Environmental Science with a specialization in freshwater fungi from University of Kashmir, Srinagar. Dr. Fayaz finished his PhD in Environmental Science on Biogas methane enrichment using selective chemical scavengers and microalgae from the Indian Agricultural Research Institute in New Delhi. He has a strong interest in waste management, pollution and renewable energy as his PhD was focused on the same issue. Moreover, in the university he has also dealt with water conservation and management, water auditing and water use efficiency in agriculture. He has published many research articles in reputed, referred national and international journals. He has also presented many research papers at national and international conferences. Previously, he worked as Research Associate with Water resources division in The Energy and Research Institute (TERI) and currently working as Assistant Professor in Higher Education Department Government of Jammu and Kashmir. Dr Malla has recently edited two books with Elsevier Press on Valorization of Microalgal Biomass and Wastewater Treatment and Environmental Sustainability of Biofuels. He has also edited one book published by Springer Nature Singapore on Biofuels in circular economy.
