Biochar: Achieving Agro-Environmental Sustainability
暫譯: 生物炭：實現農業環境可持續性

這本書被視為一種高度環保和可持續的方式，通過影響土壤的物理化學性質、增加必需元素的流動性以及改善有機碳含量來提高土壤質量和肥力。生物炭具有高碳含量，其應用增強了土壤保持養分的能力、提高了保水能力，並減少了甲烷（CH₄）排放。

本書向讀者生動地介紹了生物炭在實現可持續農業目標中的應用。將涵蓋廣泛的主題，包括：
- 生物炭的一般概述
- 生物炭在農業和畜牧業中的可持續使用
- 廢物和廢水處理
- 生物炭作為可持續工程材料

此外，本書提供了生物炭在壓力管理和緩解、土壤肥力和農業中的應用的綜合說明。它提供了可能的可持續解決方案，支持農業和環境管理，並附有最新的信息和引用。我們相信這本書對於尋求新穎方法來解決農業和環境管理中的可持續性問題的讀者將具有重要意義。

在我們生活的複雜環境中，多個相互聯繫的因素在調節我們的周圍環境中發揮著顯著作用，生物炭已顯示出其作為有效壓力改善劑的潛力，並在循環生物經濟中留下了印記。在我們看來，這本編輯的著作將作為一個有價值的參考資料，總結迄今為止所取得的成就以及未來需要重點關注的方向。

Dr. Debojyoti Moulick worked as a Post-Doctoral Fellow at Assam University, Silchar, India. In 2018 he bagged the prestigious Research Associateship (DBT-RA) award from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore and Department of Biotechnology, Govt. of India. Recently in 2025, Dr. Moulick have secured his place among world's top 2% most influential scientists list, across all fields prepared by Stanford University-USA and Elsevier, based on bibliometric data from the Scopus database. He is a graduate in Microbiology and Post-graduate in Biotechnology. He was awarded with M. Phil. and Ph.D degrees in Environmental Science by University of Kalyani, West Bengal, India. Dr. Moulick is also recipient of Senior Research Fellowship (SRF) from the Ministry of Environment and Forest for supporting his Ph.D research. Beside these, he was also awarded Senior Research Fellowship (SRF) by the Indian Council for Agricultural Research (ICAR), Govt. of India. He carried out his PhD work under the supervision of Prof. S.C. Santra, a well-recognized Environmental Biotechnologist and a global expert of arsenic toxicity. Before joining to M. Phil., he worked on gas-hydrates and Geochemical exploration in Geochemistry Division of KDMIPE of ONGC in Dehradun, India under the supervision of Dr. A.K. Jain. Dr. Moulick has gathered extensive experience in biomonitoring, seed priming technology and phytotoxicity, grain quality analysis etc. in soil - water - crop agroecosystem. In 2018, Dr. Moulick's research work have been recognized by Department of Science and Technology (Govt. of India) in Vigyan Prasar (India Science Wire) and several media hoses as a breakthrough in proposing an alternative, cheap and farmer-friendly mitigation option for minimizing Arsenic-induced phytotoxicity and transmission through rice plant and grain respectively. Apart from these, three edited volumes have published since 2022 {CRC Press (Taylor and Francis Group. Boca Raton (Florida, USA) ISBN: 9781003258063) and second one is from Frontiers Media SA. bearing the ISBN: 978-2-8325-4944-5; Springer Nature Switzerland with ISBN:978-3-031-93956-3. At present, three other edited volumes are undergoing printing stage (Springer Nature, Singapore and Switzerland). Moreover, from February 2017 onwards he has reviewed 350+ papers for various international publication houses, edited book (CRC, Press), empaneled as editorial board member {BMC Plant Biology (Springer Nature), Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management (Oxford University Press)}. As of December 2025, Dr. Moulick's publications are cited over 2570+ times as per Google Scholar with an h-index of 30 and i10 index of 63.

Dr. Shuvasish Choudhury is an Associate Professor of Plant Science in the Department of Life Science and Bioinformatics, Assam University, Silchar, India. He has been included in the world's top 2% of scientists, as listed by Stanford University, USA, and Elsevier, the Netherlands. He completed his Ph.D. in Life Science from Assam University, Silchar in 2009 and thereafter his post-doctoral research from Oklahoma State University, USA in 2013-2014. His research focuses on understanding the physiological, molecular, and metabolic responses of crop plants under diverse stress conditions. He has published around 80 papers in several journals of international repute and also edited books published by Springer Nature, Taylor & Francis, Apple Academic Press and Frontiers. His current research includes developing stress resilience through seed priming technology, nutrient management, and achieving the SDGs, specifically by converting waste biomass to biochar and exploring its possible implications for abiotic stress mitigation. Besides this, his research interest also includes the potential applications of polyamines, etc. in stress mitigation as well as metabolomics of abiotic stress in plants. As of February 2026, his publications have been cited 3947 times with an h-index of 29 and an i10 index of 42 as per Google Scholar and 2180 times with an h-index 24 as per Scopus (Science Direct, UK)

Prof. Jayanta Kumar Biswas is a Full Professor and Head at the International Centre for Ecological Engineering, Department of Ecological Studies, University of Kalyani, India. He holds an M.Sc. in Zoology, M.Phil. in Ecology, and Ph.D. in ecotechnological management of aquatic systems. His research interests include monitoring and risk assessment of soil and water contamination, ecotoxicology, phyto- and microbial remediation, ecological engineering, environmental microbiology, nanobiotechnology, and environmental sustainability. He has received numerous prestigious awards and fellowships. He has been serving as Asian Chair (from India) of the Board of the Society of Environmental Geochemistry and Health (UK) since 2023. He has been featured in Stanford's List of World's Top 2% Scientists. He is credited with publishing 9 books (from Elsevier, Springer, Taylor & Francis, etc), >190 original research papers in reputed international journals, and 56 book chapters, with >9550 citations, H-Index: 51, i10-Index: 170, and cumulative Impact Factor >800. He serves on the editorial boards of a dozen of international journals published by Elsevier, Springer, Oxford University Press, Sage, etc. as Associate Editor, Advisory Board Member and Editorial Board Member.

Meththika Vithanage is a Professor of Water Quality in GEUS, Denmark and founder of the Ecosphere Resilience Research Centre, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka. Her academic background covers hydrogeochemistry, environmental remediation of toxic metals, antibiotics, agrochemicals, serpentine soil chemistry, atmospheric pollution monitoring, waste biomass conversion and microplastics. She is a Highly Cited Researcher - 2021 by Clarivate. She received the prestigious Fayzah M. Al-Kharafi award from The World Academy of Science (TWAS) in 2020. Further, she was listed as Top 2% of the most cited scientists across various disciplines globally in 2017 to 2023. She has contributed over 290 Science Citation Indexed journal articles, over 80 book chapters and 12 co-edited books published by Elsevier, Springer, Wiley and CRC Press. Her citation record is over to 29,000 with an H index of 88. Her contribution to the newspaper articles exceeds 100. She additionally contributed to 2 Korean patents and 1 Sri Lankan patent for environmental remediation of antibiotics using biochar and synthesis of nanozero valent iron.

德博喬提·莫利克博士曾在印度西高止山的阿薩姆大學擔任博士後研究員。2018年，他獲得了來自印度科學研究院（IISc）、班加羅爾及印度政府生物技術部的著名研究助理獎（DBT-RA）。最近在2025年，莫利克博士在全球前2%最具影響力科學家名單中獲得一席之地，該名單由美國史丹佛大學和Elsevier根據Scopus數據庫的文獻計量數據編制。他擁有微生物學學士學位和生物技術碩士學位，並在印度西孟加拉邦的卡利亞尼大學獲得環境科學的M. Phil.和Ph.D.學位。莫利克博士還獲得了來自環境與森林部的高級研究獎學金（SRF）以支持他的博士研究。此外，他還獲得了印度農業研究委員會（ICAR）頒發的高級研究獎學金（SRF）。他在著名的環境生物技術專家和全球砷毒性專家S.C. Santra教授的指導下完成了博士研究。在攻讀M. Phil.之前，他在印度德拉敦的ONGC KDMIPE地質化學部門，於A.K. Jain博士的指導下從事氣體水合物和地球化學勘探的研究。莫利克博士在土壤-水-作物農業生態系統中積累了豐富的生物監測、種子促發技術和植物毒性、穀物質量分析等經驗。2018年，莫利克博士的研究工作被印度政府科學與技術部在Vigyan Prasar（印度科學網）和多家媒體報導為在提出一種替代、廉價且對農民友好的減緩砷引起的植物毒性及其通過水稻植物和穀物傳播的突破性成果。除此之外，自2022年以來，他編輯的三本書籍已出版，分別由CRC Press（泰勒與法朗西斯集團，佛羅里達州博卡拉頓，ISBN: 9781003258063）和Frontiers Media SA（ISBN: 978-2-8325-4944-5）以及Springer Nature Switzerland（ISBN: 978-3-031-93956-3）出版。目前，還有三本編輯書籍正在印刷階段（Springer Nature，新加坡和瑞士）。此外，自2017年2月以來，他已為多家國際出版機構審稿350篇以上的論文，編輯書籍（CRC Press），並作為編輯委員會成員參與了{BMC植物生物學（Springer Nature）、綜合環境評估與管理（牛津大學出版社）}。截至2025年12月，根據Google Scholar，莫利克博士的出版物被引用超過2570次，擁有h-index為30和i10 index為63。

舒瓦西什·喬杜里博士是印度阿薩姆大學生命科學與生物資訊系的植物科學副教授。他被列入美國史丹佛大學和荷蘭Elsevier的全球前2%科學家名單。他於2009年在阿薩姆大學完成生命科學博士學位，並於2013-2014年在美國奧克拉荷馬州立大學進行博士後研究。他的研究重點是了解作物植物在不同壓力條件下的生理、分子和代謝反應。他在多個國際知名期刊上發表了約80篇論文，並編輯了由Springer Nature、泰勒與法朗西斯、Apple Academic Press和Frontiers出版的書籍。他目前的研究包括通過種子促發技術、營養管理來提高抗壓能力，並實現可持續發展目標，特別是通過將廢棄生物質轉化為生物炭，探索其對非生物壓力減緩的潛在影響。除此之外，他的研究興趣還包括多胺等在壓力減緩中的潛在應用，以及植物中非生物壓力的代謝組學。截至2026年2月，他的出版物被引用3947次，根據Google Scholar的數據，擁有h-index為29和i10 index為42，而根據Scopus（英國Science Direct）的數據，被引用2180次，h-index為24。

賈揚塔·庫馬爾·比斯瓦斯教授是印度卡利亞尼大學生態研究系國際生態工程中心的全職教授及主任。他擁有動物學碩士學位、生態學M.Phil.學位和水生系統生態技術管理的博士學位。他的研究興趣包括土壤和水污染的監測與風險評估、生態毒理學、植物和微生物修復、生態工程、環境微生物學、納米生物技術和環境可持續性。他獲得了多項著名獎項和獎學金。自2023年以來，他一直擔任英國環境地球化學與健康學會的亞洲主席（來自印度）。他被列入史丹佛的全球前2%科學家名單。他發表了9本書（來自Elsevier、Springer、泰勒與法朗西斯等），在國際知名期刊上發表了超過190篇原創研究論文和56章書籍，引用次數超過9550次，H-Index: 51，i10-Index: 170，累計影響因子超過800。他擔任多本由Elsevier、Springer、牛津大學出版社、Sage等出版的國際期刊的編輯委員會成員，擔任副編輯、顧問委員會成員和編輯委員會成員。

梅特西卡·維坦納基是丹麥GEUS的水質教授，也是斯里蘭卡斯里賈亞瓦登普拉大學生態系統韌性研究中心的創始人。她的學術背景涵蓋水文地球化學、毒性金屬的環境修復、抗生素、農藥、蛇紋土化學、大氣污染監測、廢棄生物質轉化和微塑料。她是2021年由Clarivate評選的高被引研究者。她於2020年獲得了世界科學院（TWAS）頒發的著名Fayzah M. Al-Kharafi獎。此外，她在2017年至2023年期間被列為全球各學科中前2%最被引用的科學家。她發表了超過290篇科學引文索引期刊文章，超過80章書籍和12本共同編輯的書籍，這些書籍由Elsevier、Springer、Wiley和CRC Press出版。她的引用記錄超過29000次，H指數為88。她對報紙文章的貢獻超過100篇。此外，她還為環境修復抗生素的兩項韓國專利和一項斯里蘭卡專利做出了貢獻，涉及使用生物炭和合成納米零價鐵。