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Phytoremediation and Sustainable Developmental Policies and Practices

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Restoration of Wetland Ecosystem: A Trajectory Towards a Sustainable Environment

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Phytoremediation is a green strategy of environmental decontamination and offers a cost-effective approach for the remediation of variety of pollutants. This is an emerging technology toward sustaining the future of the world and mankind. The phytoremediation technology has been successfully applied in developed and developing nations to achieve the sustainable development goal. The present chapter encompasses the basic strategies, rules, regulation policies, and protective measures for the successful implementation of plant-based waste treatment technology in a cost-effective and sustainable manner.

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Author Atul Kumar Upadhyay is thankful to Vice Chancellor B.B. Ambedkar Central University, Lucknow, and DST-Science and Engineering Research Board for their financial assistance (NPDF/2016/002432) and support.

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Upadhyay, A.K., Singh, R., Singh, D.P. (2020). Phytoremediation and Sustainable Developmental Policies and Practices. In: Upadhyay, A., Singh, R., Singh, D. (eds) Restoration of Wetland Ecosystem: A Trajectory Towards a Sustainable Environment. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-7665-8_2

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