Artificial Intelligence Applications for a Sustainable Environment

by Mahmoud Nasr (Editor), Abdelazim Negm (Editor), Lai Peng (Editor)

Overview

This book explores the applications of artificial intelligence (AI) in environmental protection, with a focus on pollution monitoring and mitigation. Offering an authoritative perspective on circular and green economies through strategic AI deployment, it covers topics like risk management for human health impacts, optimization of water engineering processes, and real-time monitoring for contamination detection. Particular attention is given to water-quality-related concerns and optimizing operational parameters critical for wastewater treatment. In this book, readers will discover how AI is applied for early warning systems, detecting potential contamination in aquatic, terrestrial, and atmospheric environments. Expert contributors discuss the integration of AI with environmental sustainability, the Internet of Things (IoT), machine learning, and automated monitoring techniques. The book also highlights the role of AI-supported low-cost smart sensors in environmental monitoring and climate change mitigation. Other key topics include intelligent control systems for wireless monitoring of waste management in green cities and AI's potential in diagnosing, managing, and forecasting air-pollution-related diseases for atmospheric sustainability. The book concludes with recommendations for maintaining a circular and green economy. Given its breadth, this book is an indispensable resource for researchers, scholars, and practitioners interested in understanding the transformative role of AI in environmental engineering and its contribution to sustainable development.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783031911989
Publisher:	Springer Nature Switzerland
Publication date:	09/26/2025
Series:	Green Chemistry and Sustainable Technology
Pages:	654
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Mahmoud Nasr is an associate professor of Sanitary Engineering at Alexandria University, Egypt. He earned his Ph.D. from Egypt-Japan University of Science and Technology (E-JUST) in 2014 and his M.Sc. from Alexandria University in 2010. Dr. Nasr has held research positions at Durban University of Technology, Texas A&M University, and has published over 80 papers. He is a recognized peer reviewer and serves on the editorial boards of several journals. He was also a member of the Scientific Committee of several international conferences such as the International Conference on New Energy and Future Energy System, the International Conference on Sustainable Environment and Agriculture, the International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Data Mining, and Pollution Control Summit. Dr. Nasr has been listed as an outstanding scholar in the Stanford/Elsevier Top 2% Scientists (2023; 2024) for Main Field: Earth & Environmental Sciences, SubField 1: Environmental Sciences, and SubField 2: Chemical Engineering.

Abdelazim Negm is a professor of Hydraulics at Zagazig University, Egypt. He received his Ph.D. from Zagazig University in 1992 and his M.Sc. from Ain Shams University in 1990. Prof. Negm has published over 300 papers and contributed to more than 50 book chapters. He is the editor of multiple books and serves as an editorial board member of the Springer book series Handbook of Environmental Chemistry and on various scientific committees and journal editorial boards.

Lai Peng is a tenured professor at Wuhan University of Technology, China. He obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Queensland in 2015 and has held postdoctoral positions at Ghent University and the University of Antwerp. His research focuses on wastewater treatment, greenhouse gas mitigation, and pollutant biotransformation. Prof. Peng has published over 100 papers in leading journals.

Table of Contents

AI in Pollution Management.- 1. Internet of Things (IoT) and Environmental Monitoring: A Systematic Literature Review.- 2. Industrial Pollution Management in West Africa: NEEDS assessment for AI-enhanced monitoring and response systems.- 3. Enhancing Coastal Resilience: Current Innovations in AI-Driven Pollution Detection Systems and Feasibility for West African Marine Environments.- 4. An Assessment of the Applications and Prospects of AI Tools in Solid Waste Management.- 5. Green Intelligence for Sustainable Plastic Waste Management in Africa: A Comprehensive Framework for Policy Innovation, ICT Solutions, and Public‒Private Partnerships.- AI in Water and Wastewater Treatment.- 6. Application Bootstrap Machine Learnings for Modeling of Sonocatalytic Degradation of Caffeine in Wastewater Treatment.- 7. Structural Equation Modelling for identifying the determinants for adoption of household water treatment.- 8. Integrating Artificial Intelligence with Electrocoagulation for Sustainable Leachate Treatment: A Comparative Study of RSM and ANN for Pollutant Reduction.- AI in Sustainable Energy Solutions.- 9. Integrating Artificial Intelligence in CO₂ Capture and Conversion Processes for Sustainable Energy Solutions.- 10. Integrating Hybrid AI Models for Improved PV Power Forecasting: A Path Towards Sustainable Energy.- 11. Role of artificial intelligence (AI) in sustainable biofuel production from lignocellulosic biomas.- 12. Leveraging Artificial Intelligence for Enhanced Efficiency and Sustainability in Geothermal Energy Systems.- AI in Environmental Monitoring and Prediction.- 13. Artificial Intelligence-Based Flood Mapping: A Case Study of El Tarf Governorate, Algeria.- 14. Predicting Soil Hydraulic Conductivity: A Review of Artificial Neural Networks Applications.- 15. Statistical AI Models for Environmental Sustainability: ARIMA, LSTM, and CNN-LSTM in Climate Prediction.- AI in Social and Environmental Sustainability.- 16. Artificial Intelligence in Social Work to Ensure Environmental Sustainability.- 17. Recommendations and concluding remarks for marinating circular and green economy by artificial intelligence.