Anoop Singh has a PhD in Botany (2004). He is a Scientist at Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR), Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India. Before joining DSIR, he worked at Technical University of Denmark, Denmark; University College Cork, Ireland; The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), New Delhi, India; Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI), New Delhi, India; Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India and VBS Purvanchal University, Jaunpur, India. He has visited several European countries and participated in several international conferences. He has published more than 50 research articles in scientific journals (h-index 27, citation 7187) and also published three edited books with Springer and CRC Press. He is a member of several scientific communities and serving as Editorial board member for a number of journals besides being a reviewer. His research interests are focused on sustainable agriculture, wastemanagement through agriculture, the utilization of industrial, agricultural and household waste for eco-friendly energy production, renewable energy and their life cycle assessment (LCA).

Shaili Srivastava is an Associate Professor in the Amity School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Amity University Haryana. Dr Srivastava has done masters and Ph.D. from G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology with specialization in Microbiology and Biotechnology. Before joining Amity, she worked as a lecturer in college and a postdoctoral fellow in Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Her research focuses on waste water treatment, degradation of PAH, remediation of heavy metal, microbial sequestration of CO2, biofuel and biosurfactant production, genomics and proteomics involve in CO2 sequestration and value added product formed by microorganisms. She had visited Murdoch University, Perth, Australia, as a visiting research fellow and attended various international conferences as a speaker. Dr Shaili had published twenty-eight research papers in reputed refereed international journals. She had also published one book and 8 book chapters. She is a life member of various scientific communities and a reviewer of various international journals. She had completed three research projects sponsored from CSIR, UGC, and DST. She had eighteen years of research and teaching experience. She had a Google Scholar profile of h-index 15 and total citations are 1300.

Dheeraj Rathore is an Assistant Professor in the School of Environment and Sustainable Development at the Central University of Gujarat (CUG), Gandhinagar, India. He obtained his Ph.D. in Botany from AAI-DU, Allahabad, India and his M.Phil. in Environment Management from Vikram University, Ujjain, India. Before Joining CUG, he worked at The University of Dodoma, Tanzania. He has 2 books and 40 peer-reviewed articles (h-index 13)to his credit. He is a member of several scientific communities besides being a reviewer. His research interest focused on ecology, environmental physiology, biofuel production, and waste utilization.

Deepak Pant is a Senior Scientist at the Flemish Institute for Technological Research (VITO), Belgium. His research focuses on electrosynthesis and bioenergy, specifically, combining electrochemical and biological conversion systems with a focus on CO2 conversion and their combination with separation systems. He has 5 books (on Springer, CRC Press and Elsevier), 6 Patents, 130 peer-reviewed publications with 9900 citations (h-index 56) and 30 book chapters to his credit. He is the member of scientific communities like ISMET, ISE, BES, BRSI, IFIBiop and AMI. He is serving as Editor of one scientific journal and is on the Editorial Board of 6 other journals.

Information on new developments in the applications of biotechnical and microbiological methodology for best utilization of waste will help the researchers/industrialists for up to date guidance

The sustainability assessment will provide information to policy makers about effects of new developments on the society, environment and economy

The book will also provide advice on which procedures should be followed to achieve adequate, relevant and acceptable results