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Biochar in Agriculture for Achieving Sustainable Development Goals

  • 1st Edition - May 14, 2022
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Daniel C.W. Tsang, Yong Sik Ok
  • Language: English

Biochar in Agriculture for Achieving Sustainable Development Goals introduces the state-of-the-art of biochar for agricultural applications to actualize sustainable developme… Read more

Description

Biochar in Agriculture for Achieving Sustainable Development Goals introduces the state-of-the-art of biochar for agricultural applications to actualize sustainable development goals and highlight current challenges and the way forward. The book focuses on scientific knowledge and biochar technologies for agricultural soil improvement and plant growth. Sections provide state-of-the-art knowledge on biochar production and characterization, focus on biochar for agricultural application and soil improvement, discuss the roles of biochar for environmental improvement in farmland to relieve water and waste management as well as climate change, highlight biochar used for boosting bioeconomy and clean energy, and discuss future prospects.

This book will be important to agricultural engineers and researchers as well as those seeking to improve overall soil and environmental conditions through the use of biochar.

Key features

  • Focuses on biochar utilization in agricultural applications, targeting deeper elaboration of biochar as a cost-effective and renewable material in field-scale agriculture applications
  • Highlights biochar’s role in boosting the bioeconomy which shows great potential for promoting a circular economy and maximizing environmental, social and economic benefits
  • Connects biochar applications with sustainable development goals

Readership

Agricultural scientists/engineers, soil scientists, environmental scientists/engineers, researchers and practitioners in the agricultural/environmental industry, undergraduate and graduate students in agricultural science, soil science, environmental engineering/sciences, environmental and sustainable development, water and waste management, civil engineering, chemical engineering

Table of contents

Part I Introduction

1. Agricultural waste-derived biochar for environmental management

2. Biochar and sustainable development goals

Part II Biochar production and tunable properties

3. Biochar and its potential to increase water, trace element, and nutrient retention in soils

4. Biochar for carbon sequestration and environmental remediation in soil

5. Hydrochar and activated carbon materials from P- and N-rich biomass waste for environmental remediation and bioenergy application 6. The remediation potential of biochar derived from different biomass for typical pollution in agricultural soil

7. Biochar production from lignocellulosic and nonlignocellulosic biomass using conventional and microwave heating

8. Biochar soil application: soil improvement and pollution remediation

Part III Biochar for sustainable agriculture and food production

9. Biochar for clean composting and organic fertilizer production

10. Mineral-enriched biochar fertilizer for sustainable crop production and soil quality improvement

11. Effects of biochar on the environmental behavior of pesticides

12. Biochar nanoparticles: interactions with and impacts on soil and water microorganisms

13. Functionalized biochars for the (im) mobilization of potentially toxic elements in paddy soils under dynamic redox conditions: a case study

14. The role of mineral compositions in biochar stability and reactivity

15. Biochar production and modification for environmental improvement

16. The impact of biochar on nutrient supplies in agricultural ecosystems

17. Utilization of biochar to mitigate the impacts of potentially toxic elements on sustainable agriculture

Part IV Biochar for Environmental Improvement in Farmland

18. Biochar for remediation of alkaline soils contaminated with toxic elements

19. Thallium pollution in farmland soils and its potential amendment by biochar-based materials

20. Effect of biochar on the emission of greenhouse gas in farmland

21. Biochar for nutrient recovery from source-separated urine

22. Influence of biochar on soil biology in the charosphere

23. Biochar for sustainable immobilization of potentially toxic elements in contaminated farmland

24. Sequential biochar systems in a circular economy

Part V Biochar for circular bioeconomy and clean energy for sustainable agriculture

25. Production of biochar using sustainable microwave pyrolysis approach

26. Biochar electrocatalysts for clean energy applications

27. Engineered biochar as a potential adsorbent for carbon dioxide capture

28. Biochar: A sustainable solution for the management of agri-wastes and environment

29. Biochars’ potential role in the remediation, revegetation, and restoration of contaminated soils

30. Renewable energy, cleaner environments, and sustainable agriculture from pyrolysis and hydrothermal carbonization of residuals

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: May 14, 2022
  • Language: English

About the editors

DT

Daniel C.W. Tsang

Daniel C.W. Tsang is a Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and Pao Yue-Kong Chair Professor at the State Key Laboratory of Clean Energy Utilization of Zhejiang University in China. He was a Professor and MSc Programme Leader at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, a Visiting Professor at the University of Queensland in Australia and Chulalongkorn University in Thailand, a Visiting Scholar at Stanford University in the US, an IMETE Scholar at Ghent University in Belgium, and a postdoctoral fellow at Imperial College London in the UK. With over 20 years of R&D experience, he has published more than 600 articles in top-tier journals and has been recognized among Stanford University’s Top 2% Scientists and Clarivate’s Highly Cited Researchers in the fields of Engineering and Environment & Ecology. His team is dedicated to developing green technologies for long-term decarbonization and promoting resource circularity and sustainable development. He serves as the Editor-in-Chief of npj Materials Sustainability (Springer Nature), Chairman of the Hong Kong Waste Management Association (2023-2025), and Chairman of the Waste Management Subcommittee of the Advisory Council on the Environment (2023 & 2024) of the Hong Kong SAR Government.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China

YO

Yong Sik Ok

Dr. Ok is a full professor and global research director of Korea University, Seoul, Korea. He has published over 900 research papers and books, 92 of which have been ranked as Web of Science ESI top papers (90 have been selected as “Highly Cited Papers” (HCPs), and two as “Hot Papers”). He has been a Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher (HCR) since 2018 in Cross Field, Environment and Ecology, and Engineering. In 2019, he became the first Korean to be selected as an HCR in the field of Environment and Ecology. Again in 2021, he became the first Korean HCR in two fields: Environment and Ecology, and Engineering. He is working at the vanguard of global efforts to develop sustainable waste management strategies and technologies to address the rising crisis in electronic and plastic waste, and pollution of soil and air with particulate matter. Dr. Ok has also served in a number of positions worldwide including, as an honorary professor at the University of Queensland (Australia), a visiting professor at Tsinghua University (China), an adjunct professor at the University of Wuppertal (Germany), and a guest professor at Ghent University (Belgium). He maintains a worldwide professional network by serving as a Co-Editor-in-Chief of Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology, an Editor of Environmental Pollution, a member of the editorial advisory board of Environmental Science & Technology, and an editorial board member of Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Chemical Engineering Journal, and Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology, and several other top journals. He currently serves as the Director of the Sustainable Waste Management Program for the Association of Pacific Rim Universities (APRU) and the Co-President of the International ESG Association. Moreover, he has served on the Scientific Organizing Committee of P4G Nature Forum: Climate Change and Biodiversity, and Nature Forum: Plastics and Sustainability. Dr. Ok has also served as the chairman of numerous major conferences such as Engineering Sustainable Development series (ESD series), organized by the APRU and the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE). In 2021, Dr. Ok hosted the first Nature conference among South Korean universities in Seoul on waste management and valorization for a sustainable future together with Chief Editors of Nature Sustainability (Dr. Monica Contestabile), Nature Electronics (Dr. Owain Vaughan), and Nature Nanotechnology (Dr. Fabio Pulizzi). Prof. Ok will host the first Nature Forum on Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG) for Global Sustainability: the “E” Pillar for Sustainable Business.
Affiliations and expertise
Full Professor and Director, Korea Biochar Research Center, Korea University Chair and Program Director, Sustainable Waste Management Program, Association of Pacific Rim Universities (APRU) Co-President, International ESG Association (IESGA)

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