Overview
- Analyzes key hazardous micropollutants in different environments and their impacts on human health
- Discusses allied treatment technologies to cope with the impacts of environmental micropollutants
- Covers policy actions to address micropollutant threats to the economy and human health
Part of the book series: Emerging Contaminants and Associated Treatment Technologies (ECAT)
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Dr. Toqeer Ahmed is currently working as a Tenured Associate Professor at Centre for Climate Research and Development (CCRD), COMSATS University Islamabad (CUI), Islamabad, Pakistan. Since his education, he has worked at responsible positions in different Government departments and R & D organizations and received trainings from advanced countries like Germany, UK, China, Kazakhstan etc. He has more than 20 Years professional experience and more than 10 years post Ph.D. working experience. He has completed several national as well as international projects in collaboration with the University of Edinburgh, UK, D 8 Secretariat Istanbul, Imo State University, Nigeria, NRC, Egypt and International NGOs like UNDP, IISD, SDC etc. He has more than 45 research publications in peer reviewed research journals and 6 book chapters in the field of environmental micropollutants, food and water quality assessment, wastewater treatment, climate impacts on health and nano-biotechnology. Dr. Ahmed has lectured and presented research papers in both national and international conferences. He is currently working in the field of Environmental Microbiology, Climate Change, Water Management and Environmental Nanotechnology. He is on the Editorial Boards of few International impact factor Journals and active member of scientific societies.
Dr. Muhammad Zaffar Hashmi is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Engineering in the Department of Chemistry at COMSATS University Islamabad Campus, Pakistan. Dr. Hashmi works on multiple water, soil, air and health related issues, and has expertise in developing environmentally sustainable and feasible technologies.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Hazardous Environmental Micro-pollutants, Health Impacts and Allied Treatment Technologies
Editors: Toqeer Ahmed, Muhammad Zaffar Hashmi
Series Title: Emerging Contaminants and Associated Treatment Technologies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-96523-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-96522-8Published: 28 June 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-96525-9Published: 29 June 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-96523-5Published: 27 June 2022
Series ISSN: 2524-6402
Series E-ISSN: 2524-6410
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 401
Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations, 25 illustrations in colour
Topics: Pollution, general, Medicine/Public Health, general, Medicinal Chemistry, Medical Microbiology