ABSTRACT

Human scientific pursuit and the progress of human civilization are today in the path of newer vision and new scientific rejuvenation. The world of science and technology are today faced with immense difficulties and hurdles. Global climate change, global warming, and frequent environmental disasters are challenging the vast scientific firmament of immense might and vision. In this chapter, the author deeply discusses and uncovers the need of nanotechnology in its application in ecology and environment. Environmental protection globally is the need of the hour. Loss of biodiversity and frequent environmental catastrophes are veritably urging the civil society, scientists, and engineers to gear forward toward newer techniques and newer environmental engineering tools to protect the environment. The author, with deep scientific conscience, focuses on the necessity of traditional and nontraditional environmental engineering tools in the furtherance of the cause of industrial ecology. The vast vision and the challenges of science, the world of technological marvels, and the futuristic vision of scientific validation will go a long way in the true realization of environmental engineering and nanotechnology. The crisis of mankind today is the inadequate supply of pure drinking water in developing and developed countries around the world. This chapter will 96veritably open a new window in the domain of both industrial ecology and applications of nanotechnology. Nano-science and nanotechnology are the wonders of science and engineering today. Application of nanotechnology in the field of preservation of ecology and environment thus assumes immense importance. The author rigorously points out toward the scientific intricacies and the scientific difficulties in the furtherance of science of industrial ecology and nanotechnology.