The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Green Societies

lt;p>Dr. Chinmay Chakraborty is an Assistant Professor (Sr.) in the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, BIT Mesra, India. His primary areas of research include Wireless body area network, Internet of Medical Things, Smart City, Green Technology, m-Health/e-health, and Medical imaging. He is leading as a Guest Editors of MDPI, Wiley, Springer, CRC Press and IGI publishers. Dr. Chakraborty is co-editing ten books on Smart IoMT, Green Environmental Solutions, and Sensor Data Analytics with CRC Press, IET, Pan Stanford, and Springer. He has served as a Publicity Chair member at renowned international conferences including IEEE Healthcom, IEEE SP-DLT. He received a Best Session Runner-up Award, Young Research Excellence Award, Global Peer Review Award, Young Faculty Award, and Outstanding Researcher Award.

Dr. Swapnila Roy is an Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Chemistry, K K University,Nalanda, Bihar. She worked as a Editor in reputed publishing house(Chhaya Prakashani).She also worked as Analytical Chemist  in different Pharmaceutical and Chemical companies. Her primary areas of research include Defluoridation in waste water,adsorption method for remediation,design expert tool,application of  artificial neural network. She is skilled in handling of sophisticated instruments such as ICP-OES,AAS, FT-IR,HPLC,GCMS,Bomb Calorimeter,Soxlet Apparatus and different instruments using for analysis of hazardous waste. She has authored 25 reputed journals, book chapters and International conferences. She received a young research excellence award and  outstanding Researcher Award.

Dr. Susmita Sharma is an Assistant Professor in Department of Civil Engineering at National Institute of Technology Meghalaya, India since 2016. She has obtained her Ph.D. Degree, in Geotechnical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay in the year 2016. She specializes in Environmental Geotechnology, with particular emphasis on utilization of anthropogenic generated sediments of waste water treatment plants. She is passionate about geochemistry of soils and sediments and skilled in material characterization techniques using sophisticated instruments such as SEM, Zeta potential, Thermal Analysis, X-Ray diffraction, Particle Sizing, FT-IR. Currently, her primary areas of research include stability analysis of earthen slope, soil/sediment characterization for contamination evaluation and characterization of biomass as Non Conventional Fuels.

Dr. Tien Anh Tran is a Lecturer at Faculty of Marine Engineering, Vietnam Maritime University, Hai Phong City, Vietnam from 2011 to present. He has been a research fellow at Marine Research Institute, Vietnam Maritime University, Hai Phong City, Vietnam since 2018. He has participated in the international conferences as Speaker and an invited technical committee member for the international conferences in Australia, United Kingdom, Canada, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, India, and Hong Kong. He an author, reviewer for the international journals indexed in SCI/SCIE, EI. His current research interests include ocean engineering, marine engineering, environmental engineering, machine learning, applied mathematics, fuzzy logic theory, multi criteria decision making (MCDM), maritime safety, risk management, simulation and optimization, system control engineering, renewable enegy and fuels.

Chapter 1. COVID-19: An Opportunity for Smart and Sustainable Cities in India.- Chapter 2. Re-assessment of Urban Sustainability and Food Security in the light of COVID-19.- Chapter 3. Disruptive Mobility in pre-and post-COVID times: App-based Shared Mobility in Indian Cities- a Case of Bengaluru.- Chapter 4. Finding the Long-Lost Path: Developing Environmental Awareness through the Pandemic.- Chapter 5. The Dual Impact of Lockdown on Curbing COVID-19 Spread and Rise of Air Quality Index in India.- Chapter 6. Aftermath of Industrial Pollution, Post COVID-19 Quarantine on Environment.- Chapter 7. Covid-19: Disaster or an Opportunity for Environmental Sustainability.- Chapter 8. COVID-19 and its Impact on Carbon Dioxide Emissions.- Chapter 9. Sustainable Attainment of Solar E-waste Recycling concerning to COVID-19 Crisis: A Review.- Chapter 10. Impact of Biomedical Waste Management System on Infection Control in the Midst of Covid-19 Pandemic.- Chapter 11. Sludge hygienisation - a novel technology for urban areas to deal with incursion of COVID-19 viral particles in wastewater.- Chapter 12. Trends and Innovations in Biosensors for COVID-19 Detection in Air.- Chapter 13. IoT Based Wearable Healthcare System: Post COVID-19.- Chapter 14. Biodiversity Conservation: An imperial need in combatting pandemic and healthcare emergencies.- Chapter 15. COVID-19 Pandemic: an Unprecedented Blessing for Nature.- Chapter 16. Green Economy Approach to Develop Bioactive Dexamethasone Analogue Scaffold against SARS CoV-2.