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Part I. Soil and Sediment Contaminants, Risk Assessment and Remediation -- Chapter 1. Introduction to Part I: Soil and Sediment Contaminants, Risk Assessment and Remediation -- Chapter 2. Combating Arsenic Pollution in Soil Environment via Alternate Agricultural Land Use -- Chapter 3. Temporal and Seasonal Variation in Leachate Pollution Index (LPI) in Sanitary Landfill Sites- A Case study of Baidyabati landfill, West Bengal, India -- Chapter 4.Quantification of Landfill Gas Emission and Energy Recovery Potential: A Comparative Assessment of LandGEM and MTM Model for Kolkata -- Chapter 5. Assessment of natural enrichment of heavy minerals along coastal placers of India: Role of lake and river mouth embayment and its implications -- Chapter 6. Assessment the Impact of Plastic Contaminated Fertilizers on Agricultural Soil Health: A Case Study in Memari II C.D.Block, Purba Bardhaman,West Bengal, India -- Chapter 7. Determining the Role of Leaf Relative Water Content and Soil Cation Exchange Capacity in Phytoextraction Process – Using Regression Modelling -- Chapter 8. Phytoremediation of Arsenic using Allium sativum as Model System -- Chapter 9. Spatio-temporal analysis of open waste dumping sites using Google Earth: A case study of Kharagpur City, India -- Part II. Water Contaminants, Risk Assessment and Remediation -- Chapter 10. Introduction to Part II: Water Contaminants, Risk Assessment and Remediation -- Chapter 11. Groundwater Arsenic Contamination Zone based on geospatial modeling, risk and remediation -- Chapter 12. Geospatial assessment of surface water pollution and industrial activities in Ibadan, Nigeria -- Chapter 13. Aquaculture-based water quality assessment and risk remediationalong the Rasulpur River belt, West Bengal -- Chapter 14. Heavy Metal Contamination in Groundwater and Impact on Plant and Human -- Chapter 15. Emerging Threats of Microplastic contaminant in freshwater environment -- Chapter 16. Exploring Particle Size Transport Variability of Suspended Sediments in two Alpine Catchments over the Lesser Himalayan Region, India -- Chapter 17. Salinity and corrosion potential of groundwater in Mewat district of Haryana, India -- Chapter 18. Threats to quality in the coasts of the Black Sea: heavy metal pollution of seawater, sediment, macro-algae and sea-grass -- Chapter 19. Geospatial assessment of groundwater quality for drinking through Water Quality Index and Human Health Risk Index in an upland area of Chotanagpur Plateau of West Bengal, India -- Chapter 20. Existence of Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products (PPCPs) in the conventional water treatment process -- Chapter 21. Arsenic-rich surface and groundwater around eastern parts of Rupnagar district, Punjab, India -- Part III. Environmental Contaminants, Impacts and Sustainable Management -- Chapter 22. Introduction to Part III: Environmental Contaminants, Risk Assessment and Remediation -- Chapter 23. Dynamics of ultra-fine particles in indoor and outdoor environments: a modelling approach to study the evolution of particle characteristics -- Chapter 24. Environmental impacts of coal-mining and coal-fired power-plant activities in a developing country with global context -- Chapter 25. Overview of Indoor air pollution: A human health perspective -- Chapter 26. Mineralogy and Morphological characterization of Technogenic Magnetic Particles (TMP) from industrial dust: Insights into environmental implications -- Chapter 27. Pesticides: Recent Updates on Types Toxicity and Bioremediation Strategies -- Chapter 28. Commonly available plant neem (Azadirachtaindica A. Juss) ameliorates dimethoate induced toxicity in climbing perch Anabas testudineus -- Chapter 29. Estimating Particulate Matter concentrations from MODIS AOD considering meteorological parameters using Random Forest Algorithm -- Chapter 30 Bio-monitoring and bioremediation of a trans-boundary river in India: Functional roles of benthic mollusks and fungi -- Chapter 31 Assessing the Maximum Aerobic Biodegradation Potential of Leaf Litter, an Organic Fraction of Municipal Solid Waste, Under Optimum Nutrient Conditions -- Chapter 32. Rising trend of air pollution and its decadal consequences on meteorology and thermal comfort over Gangetic West Bengal, India.

Intro -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Editors and Contributors -- 1 Introduction to Spatial Modeling of Flood Risk and Hazard: Societal Implication -- Abstract -- 1.1 Concept of Floods -- 1.2 Impact of Flood-Global Scenario -- 1.3 Floods in India-A Case Study -- 1.4 Need for Floods Prediction Map -- 1.5 Role of Geospatial Technology for Floods Prediction -- 1.6 Key Aims of the Book -- 1.7 Individual Chapters -- References -- 2 Flood Susceptibility Mapping Using Morphometric Parameters and GIS -- Abstract -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Study Area -- 2.3 Data and Methods -- 2.4 Results and Discussion -- 2.4.1 Morphometric Parameters -- 2.4.1.1 Linear Parameters -- 2.4.1.2 Areal Parameters -- 2.4.1.3 Relief Parameters -- 2.4.2 Prioritization of the Sub-basin for Flood Susceptibility -- 2.4.3 Validation -- 2.5 Conclusion -- References -- 3 Palaeohydrologic Estimates of Flood Discharge of Lower Ramganga River Catchment of Ganga Basin, India, Using Slackwater Deposits -- Abstract -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Study Reach -- 3.3 Database and Methodology -- 3.3.1 Flood Frequency Analysis by Log-Pearson Type III Distribution -- 3.3.2 Palaeoflood Hydrological Investigations -- 3.3.3 Grain Size Measurement -- 3.4 Result and Discussion -- 3.4.1 Hydrological Characteristics -- 3.4.2 Estimation of Probable Flood Discharge and Flood Recurrence Interval -- 3.4.3 Estimation of Palaeohydraulic Flood Discharge Using Slack Water Deposits -- 3.4.4 Stratigraphy and Grain Size Analysis of Slackwater Deposits -- 3.4.5 Accuracy Assessment -- 3.5 Conclusion -- References -- 4 Flood Risk Zone Identification Using Multi-criteria Decision Approach -- Abstract -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Study Area -- 4.3 Materials and Method -- 4.3.1 Collection of Secondary Data -- 4.3.2 Analysis of Flood Frequency -- 4.3.3 Satellite Data Acquisition and Preprocessing.