Environmental Sustainability for Green Societies: The Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic

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 Geotechnology, with particular emphasis on utilization of anthropogenic generated sediments of waste water treatment plants. She is passionate about geochemistry of soils and sediments and skilled in material characterization techniques using sophisticated instruments such as SEM, Zeta potential, Thermal Analysis, X-Ray diffraction, Particle Sizing, FT-IR. Currently, her primary areas of research include stability analysis of earthen slope, soil/sediment characterization for contamination evaluation and characterization of biomass as Non Conventional Fuels.

Dr. Tien Anh Tran is a Lecturer at Faculty of Marine Engineering, Vietnam Maritime University, Hai Phong City, Vietnam from 2011 to present. He has been a research fellow at Marine Research Institute, Vietnam Maritime University, Hai Phong City, Vietnam since 2018. He has participated in the international conferences as Speaker and an invited technical committee member for the international conferences in Australia, United Kingdom, Canada, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, India, and Hong Kong. He an author, reviewer for the international journals indexed in SCI/SCIE, EI. His current research interests include ocean engineering, marine engineering, environmental engineering, machine learning, applied mathematics, fuzzy logic theory, multi criteria decision making (MCDM), maritime safety, risk management, simulation and optimization, system control engineering, renewable enegy and fuels.