The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Green Societies, 1st ed. 2021 Environmental Sustainability

This book covers the sustainability issues of a green environment towards economics and society in terms of alteration in industrial pollution levels, effect of reduced carbon emissions, changes in water bodies characteristics with respect to heavy metal contamination, monitoring of associated impact with respect to ecology and biodiversity, impact of reduced noise levels and air quality influences on human health, handling and management of biomedical waste. According to WHO, 80% of people living in urban areas are exposed to air exceeding safe limits. The advent of "sustainability? in development science has led planners to apply evolving notions of "sustainability? to the contemporary debate over how cities and regions should be revitalized, redeveloped, and reformed. Market allocation of resources, sustained levels of growth and consumption, an assumption that natural resources are unlimited and a belief that economic growth will ?trickle down? to the poor have been its hallmarks. The recent advance technology helps to promote green and clean modern societies continuously. The Internet of things will be playing an important role in the upcoming years in environment protection and sustainable development.

There is a focus on paradigm shift in the sustainable development for the green environment during the period of isolation of COVID-19. This is the moment for the mobilization against the climate crisis. The sudden fall in pollutants and subsequent blue skies signifies a dramatic shift for India and also other affected countries during this period. Fighting climate change requires a collaborative approach between all spheres of society unlike the former. It must heavily redirect resources towards local, sustainable activities, including education, health, sustainable agriculture and circular management of resources. The impact of COVID-19 pandemic which has resulted in the dramatic change in the different aspects of the environment. The global lockdown has led to a rejuvenation of nature, ecosystems, biodiversity. Even urban environments are discovering a degree of peace and serenity, which led to decrease in greenhouse gas emission.

Dr. Chinmay Chakraborty is an Assistant Professor (Sr.) in the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, BIT Mesra, India. His primary areas of research include Wireless body area network, Internet of Medical Things, Smart City, Green Technology, m-Health/e-health, and Medical imaging. He is leading as a Guest Editors of MDPI, Wiley, Springer, CRC Press and IGI publishers. Dr. Chakraborty is co-editing ten books on Smart IoMT, Green Environmental Solutions, and Sensor Data Analytics with CRC Press, IET, Pan Stanford, and Springer. He has served as a Publicity Chair member at renowned international conferences including IEEE Healthcom, IEEE SP-DLT. He received a Best Session Runner-up Award, Young Research Excellence Award, Global Peer Review Award, Young Faculty Award, and Outstanding Researcher Award.

Dr. Swapnila Roy is an Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Chemistry, K K University,Nalanda, Bihar. She worked as a Editor in reputed publishing house(Chhaya Prakashani).She also worked as Analytical Chemist  in different Pharmaceutical and Chemical companies. Her primary areas of research include Defluoridation in waste water,adsorption method for remediation,design expert tool,application of  artificial neural network. She is skilled in handling of sophisticated instruments such as ICP-OES,AAS, FT-IR,HPLC,GCMS,Bomb Calorimeter,Soxlet Apparatus and different instruments using for analysis of hazardous waste. She has authored 25 reputed journals, book chapters and International conferences. She received a young research excellence award and  outstanding Researcher Award.

Dr. Susmita Sharma is an Assistant Professor in Department of Civil Engineering at National Institute of Technology Meghalaya, India since 2016. She has obtained her Ph.D. Degree, in Geotechnical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay in the year 2016. She specializes in Environmental Geot

Highlights fundamental concepts of environmental sustainability and aspects of societies

Describes various pollution effects for agriculture, and health

Offers innovative technological solutions for green societies