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I K International Environmental Biotechnology Basic Concepts And Applications by Srivastava
Biotechnology impinges on everyone's 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 problems.This 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.Contents:PrefaceEnvironmental BiotechnologyEnvironment and ecosystem processesEnvironmental resources-air, water and soilEnvironmental perturbation-air, water and soil pollutionGlobal environmental problemsStructural and functional dynamics of microbial lifeAir pollution and its controlWater pollution and its controlSolid waste and soil pollution ManagementBiodegradation and Bioconversion of Natural CompoundsBiodegradation and Bioconversion of Xenobiotic CompoundsBioabsorption of MetalsApplication of Biotechnology in Environmental ManagementIndustrial Problems and their Remedial Mechanism