Management of Natural Resources in a Changing Environment

<p> </p><p>Message from Alexander von Humboldt Foundation<br>Foreword<br>Preface<br>About the Editors</p><p>Section I: Management of Water Resources:Challenges for Sustainability</p><p>Hydro-geochemical Investigation and Quality Assessment of Groundwater for Drinking and Agriculture Use in Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi, India <br>N. Janardhana Raju, Anurag Chaudhary, Sadaf Nazneen, Shubhra Singh and Ankur Goyal </p><p>Comparison of Relationship Between the Concentrations of Water Isotopes in Precipitation in the Cities of Tehran (Iran) and New Delhi (India) <br>Maryam Mosaffa, Farzin Nasiri Saleh and Yousef Khalaj Amirhosseini </p><p>Geophysical Expression for Groundwater Quality in Part of Chittoor District, Andhra Pradesh, India<br>S. Md. Farooq Basha </p><p>Geospatial Analysis of Fluoride Contamination in Groundwater of Southeastern Part of Anantapur District, Andhra Pradesh <br>B. Muralidhara Reddy, V. Sunitha and M. Ramakrishna Reddy </p><p>Identification of Surface Water Harvesting Sites for Water Stressed Area Using GIS: A Case Study of Ausgram Block, BurdwanDistrict, West Bengal, India<br>C. Prakasam <br><br>Forecasting Groundwater Level Using Hybrid Modelling Technique <br>Sumant Kumar and Surjeet Singh</p><p>Alterations in Physico-chemical Parameters of Water and Aquatic Diversity at Maneri-Bhali Phase I Dam Site on River Ganges in District Uttarkashi, UttarakhandMadhu Thapliyal, Poonam Tiwari and Ashish Thapliyal </p><p>Section II: Bio-remediation for Resource Enrichment</p><p>Effective Removal of Heavy Metals and Dyes from Drinking Water Utilizing Bio-compatible Magnetic Nanoparticle <br>Dwiptirtha Chattopadhyay and Keka Sarkar </p><p>UASBR: An Effective Wastewater Treatment Option to Curb Greenhouse Gas Emissions <br>Rajesh Singh and C.K. Jain </p><p>Biogas Upgrading and Bottling Technology for Vehicular and Cooking Applications <br>Virendra Kumar Vijay, Rimika Kapoor, Abhinav Trivedi and Pradip Narale</p><p>Use of Indigenous Bacteria from Arsenic Contaminated Soil for Arsenic Bioremediation <br>Ivy Mallick, Sk Tofajjen Hossain, Sangram Sinha and Samir Kumar Mukherjee</p><p>Adsorption of Arsenite and Fluoride on Untreated and Treated Bamboo Dust <br>Sanjoy Kumar Nath and Krishna G. Bhattacharyya </p><p>Reducing the Toxicity of Carbon Nanotubes and Fullerenes Using Surface Modification Strategy <br>Jyoti Chawla and Arun Kumar </p><p>Phytoremediation Study and Effect of pH on Biomass Productivity of Eichhornia crassipes <br>Ajay Kumar, Neetu Singh, Shilpa Gupta, Pallavi Joshi, Sukirti Tiwari and Kavita Swaroop </p><p>Regeneration of White Oak (Quercus leucotrichophora) in Two Pine Invaded Forests in Indian Central Himalaya<br>Satish Chandra Garkoti </p><p>Section III: Environmental Pollution: Issues and Strategies</p><p>Human Health Risk Assessment of Heavy Metals from Bhalaswa Landfill, New Delhi, India<br>Balsher Singh Sidhu, Dikshant Sharma, Tushar Tuteja, Smit Gupta and Arun Kumar </p><p>Transport of Trace Metals by the Rainwater Runoff in the Urban Catchment of Guwahati, India<br>Upama Devi and Krishna G. Bhattacharyya </p><p>Analysis of Leachate Characteristics to Study Coal Ash Usability<br>Pooja Vishnoi and Shambhavi Kamath M. </p><p>Air Pollution Mapping and Quality Assessment Study at an Urban Area Tirupati Using GIS <br>M. Praveen Kumar, S. Venkata Mohan and S. Jayarama Reddy </p><p>Environmental Hazards and Conservation Approach to the Biodiversity and Ecosystem of the St. Martin’s Island in Bangladesh<br>Nurul Hoque Upal </p><p>Uranium Toxicity in the State of Punjab in North-Western India<br>Alok Srivastava, Friedhart Knolle, Frieder Hoyler Ulrich W. Scherer and Ewald Schnug</p><p>Fluoride Toxicity in the Fluoride Endemic Villages of Gaya District, Bihar, India <br>Shahla Yasmin and Suneet Ranjan </p><p>Index </p><p>