Environmental Toxicology : Volume 1 - Geohealth: Risk Assessment and Mitigation Strategies (GeoHealth: The Impact of Geology on Environment and Human Health)

What the ground releases, the body inherits. This central idea shapes Geohealth: Risk Assessment and Mitigation Strategies, which explores the deep and often unseen connections between geological processes and human health. The book explains how materials mobilised during mining and natural processes move through air, water, soil, and food systems, and reaches human body through these mediums. Their form, mobility, time of exposure and bioavailability decide their hazard potential ultimate effects on the human body. It brings together carefully selected case studies with advances in risk assessment, biomonitoring, and toxicological research to present a clear and evidence-based understanding of exposure and impact. Particular attention is paid to occupational and community health risks, including those associated with mine dust and respirable silica. This book also provides practical and forward-looking solutions for these menaces such as microbial and plant-based remediation, emerging nanotechnologies, and real-time monitoring approaches. By bridging the compartments of geology, environmental science, health and medicine, and policy perspectives, this book offers a balanced and scientifically grounded document that is both useful and accessible. This book will serve as a reference not only to the scientific community of researchers, academicians and students, but also serves as a guide for policy and decision makers, as well as administrators, particularly in the light of the United Nation s Sustainable Development Goals.

Impact of iron ore leachate on aquatic ecosystems.- A comprehensive review of an association between lung diseases risk and occupational exposure to coal dust.- Rehabilitation of mining sites using microbial bio remediation.- Assessment of exposure of respirable dust and its free silica content in open cast mines.- Chromium extraction by Pteris Vittata from Sukinda field soils and phytoextraction demonstration.

Dr. Kirtikumar R. Randive is Professor and Head of the Department at the Post-Graduate Department of Geology, RTM Nagpur University, Nagpur. He served the Geological Survey of India before joining the university. He published more than 130 research papers in the national and international journals and books. So far, he authored 3 monographs and edited 8 books for renowned publishers including Springer, Elsevier and De Gruyers. He is the Editorial Board member of the Springer-Nature Journal Mineralogy & Petrology, the De Gruyter s Journal Open Geosciences, Associate Editor of Scilite Journal Earth Science Perspectives and Dy. Editor-in-Chief of the Nagpur University Science Journal. He is an editor of the Springer- Nature book series Geohealth: The impact of geology on environment and human health . Prof. Randive was a member of 31st Indian Scientific Expedition to Antarctica in year 2011- 2012. He was invited as a Visiting Fellow to the University of Portsmouth, UK in 2018. His contributions were applauded on various forums including the Best Teacher Award (Researcher) award of the RTM Nagpur University in 2017. He was the conference Chair for the 4th edition of International Students Conference on Medical Geology and Environmental Health, South Asia, 2025 which was under the auspices of the International Union of Geosciences (IUGS) in collaboration with International Medical Geology Association (IMGA), Society for Environmental Geochemistry and Health (SEGH), IUGS-Commission on Global Geochemical Baselines (CGGB) and International Environmental and Health Sciences Consortium (IEHSC). He is currently representing India at the International Environmental and Health Sciences Consortium (IEHSC). He is member of various academic societies including Board of Research and Management Council (2021-2022) RTM Nagpur University.

· Dr. Shubhangi Pingle [Scientist E, ICMR-ROHC(S)] is working in the field of occupational disease biomarkers from past nineteen years. She acquired research experience in proteomics, immunology and cell culture biology, histopathology particularly in the area of occupational diseases. She has 107 publications in her credit. She worked on silicosis, Noise Induced Hearing Loss (NIHL), chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), Coal Workers p- Pneumoconiosis (CWP), which are very closely associated lung diseases. She received Travel award from Department of Biotechnology and European Science Foundation to attend international deliberations.

She is resource person for international and national conferences. She established multidisciplinary research in biology and expanded into newer areas of R&D. She has three Indian Patent granted and 8 submitted. She is a member of scientific committees with many awards in her credit. She is a reviewer of the Journal BMC Complementary and alternative medicine and an editorial member of the journal European Journal of Clinical and Biomedical Sciences. She has completed projects cost around Rs 13.89 Cr. There are many areas which were first time implemented in the diagnostic field of research by her differing approach. She has expertise in preventive measures of occupational health diseases used for beneficiation of industry workers. Her expertise will be utilized in this project. She has collaboration with many institutes of national importance, namely IISc Bangalore, CIIMS, Nagpur, Datta Meghe institute of Medical Sciences, Nagpur, PIET, Nagpur ISM-Dhanbad, IIT-