Environmental Biotechnology : Basic Concepts and Applications

Contents Preface 1 Environmental Biotechnology 2 Environment and ecosystem processes 3 Environmental resources-air water and soil 4 Environmental perturbation-air water and soil pollution 5 Global environmental problems 6 Structural and functional dynamics of microbial life 7 Air pollution and its control 8 Water pollution and its control 9 Solid waste and soil pollution Management 10 Biodegradation and Bioconversion of Natural Compounds 11 Biodegradation and Bioconversion of Xenobiotic Compounds 12 Bioabsorption of Metals 13 Application of Biotechnology in Environmental Management 14 Industrial Problems and their Remedial Mechanism Index Biotechnology impinges on everyones lives It is one of the major technologies of the twenty-first century with wide-ranging multidisciplinary activities ranging from small entities of life to the application and production of goods Environmental biotechnology is a huge and fast growing field with increasing relevance for a sustainable development through protection of environment to production of biomaterials It continues to revolutionize the understanding of basic life sustaining processes in the environment identification and exploitation of the molecules and its use to provide clean technologies and to deal with environmental problemsThis book provides an overview of basic processes of the environment perturbations in the environment due to natural and human activities and use of biotechnological principles for remediation for sustainable development of the environment 516 pp.…