Emerging carbon based nanocomposites for environmental applications The 12 chapters comprehensively cover the development and advances on emerging carbon based nanocomposites for wastewater applications and discuss the following topics: The emerging carbon based nanocomposites for remediation of heavy metals and organic pollutants from wastewater; Functional green carbon nanocomposites for heavy metal treatment in water; Carbon based nanocomposites as heterogeneous catalysts for organic reactions in environment friendly solvents; Biochar based adsorbents for the removal of organic pollutants from aqueous systems; The removal of trihalomethanes from water using nanofiltration membranes and Nanocomposite materials as electrode materials in microbial fuel cells for the removal of water pollutants; Plasmonic smart nanosensors for the determination of environmental pollutants.