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Restoration of Environment Through Phytoremediation

Restoration of Environment Through Phytoremediation

Arezoo Dadrasnia, Chijioke U. Emenike, Salmah binti Ismail
Copyright: © 2015 |Pages: 24
ISBN13: 9781466686823|ISBN10: 1466686820|EISBN13: 9781466686830
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-8682-3.ch008
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Dadrasnia, Arezoo, et al. "Restoration of Environment Through Phytoremediation." Handbook of Research on Uncovering New Methods for Ecosystem Management through Bioremediation, edited by Shivom Singh and Kajal Srivastava, IGI Global, 2015, pp. 172-195. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-8682-3.ch008

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Dadrasnia, A., Emenike, C. U., & Ismail, S. B. (2015). Restoration of Environment Through Phytoremediation. In S. Singh & K. Srivastava (Eds.), Handbook of Research on Uncovering New Methods for Ecosystem Management through Bioremediation (pp. 172-195). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-8682-3.ch008

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Dadrasnia, Arezoo, Chijioke U. Emenike, and Salmah binti Ismail. "Restoration of Environment Through Phytoremediation." In Handbook of Research on Uncovering New Methods for Ecosystem Management through Bioremediation, edited by Shivom Singh and Kajal Srivastava, 172-195. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2015. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-8682-3.ch008

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Abstract

Environmental restoration is a phenomenon required to keep the ecosystem intact, or enhance the rejuvenation of impaired environmental media; soil, water and air. Various methods of remediation exist, yet restoring the environment to the proximal or original state appear elusive to most methods. Interestingly, phytoremediation which is a biological process does not only restore environment in a greener way, but also can adopt diverse mechanisms such phytoextraction, phytodegradation, rhizodegrdation, phytostabilization and phytovolatization, to achieve the desired outcome. The chapter also unlined the merits and a few demerits of this principle, while the identification of sustainable plants and the mitigation of time constraints were the future directions mentioned for the projection of phytoremediation as the ideal approach for the restoration of the environment.

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