Environmental Biotechnology : Sustainable Remediation of Contamination in Different Environs

This book provides a review of innovative and novel biotechnological techniques that can be implemented to assess, analyze, and mitigate harmful pollutants and wastes that result from agricultural and industrial operations. It helps to meet the much-needed demand for improvement of low-cost technologies that tackle pollution problems scientifically for the safeguard of the environment, focusing on bioremediation solutions that also create useful and renewable forms of energy. The biotechnological interventions discussed in the volume include approaches involving genomics, proteomics, transcriptomics, metabolomics, and fluxomics. In addition, biological agents such as microalgae, bacteria, fungi, and bacteriophage, which can also prove to be helpful in the elimination of wastes, are explored. Topics in Environmental Biotechnology: Sustainable Remediation of Contamination in Different Environs include the associated consequences and hazards from agricultural and industrial waste and a variety of bioremediation measures, including the use of bioaugmentation, biosensors, challenges of biofuel production, and more. The book is directed to researchers, scientists, industrialists, farmers, agricultural waste management authorities, as well as to faculty and students, and aims to help implement these novel technologies for environmental stability. Discusses innovative and new biotechnological techniques to assess, analyze, and mitigate pollutants and wastes from agricultural and industrial operations. It includes approaches involving genomics, proteomics, transcriptomics, metabolomics, and fluxomics. "This book provides a review of innovative and novel biotechnological techniques that can be implemented to assess, analyze, and mitigate harmful pollutants and wastes that result from agricultural and industrial operations. It helps to meet the much-needed demand for improvement of low-cost technologies that tackle pollution problems scientifically for the safeguard of the environment, focusing on bioremediation solutions that also create useful and renewable forms of energy. The biotechnological interventions discussed in the volume include approaches involving genomics, proteomics, transcriptomics, metabolomics, and fluxomics. In addition, biological agents such as microalgae, bacteria, fungi, and bacteriophage, which can also prove to be helpful in the elimination of wastes, are explored. Topics in Environmental Biotechnology: Sustainable Remediation of Contamination in Different Environs include the associated consequences and hazards from agricultural and industrial waste and a variety of bioremediation measures, including the use of bioaugmentation, biosensors, challenges of biofuel production, and more. The book is directed to researchers, scientists, industrialists, farmers, agricultural waste management authorities, as well as to faculty and students, and aims to help implement these novel technologies for environmental stability."-- Provided by publisher Cover Half Title Title Page Dedication Table of Contents Contributors Abbreviations Foreword Preface Chapter 1: Assessment of Some Hazards Associated with Dangerous Chemicals Chapter 2: Environmental Degradation as a Multifaceted Consequence of Human Development Chapter 3: Persistent Organic Pollutants: Sources, Impacts, and Their Remediation by Microalgae Chapter 4: Microbial Intervention for Degradation of Agricultural Wastes Chapter 5: Microbial Consortium: A Biotechnological Tool for Enhanced Bioremediation in Pollution-Affected Environments Chapter 6: Bioaugmentation: A Way Out for Remediation of Polluted Environments Chapter 7: Biodegradable Waste: Renewable Energy Source Chapter 8: Intrusion of Biotechnology for Degradation of Organic Wastes Chapter 9: Biotechnological Intervention for the Management of Agricultural Waste Chapter 10: Biofuels: Current Challenges and Possible Solutions Chapter 11: Biotechnological Intercession in Biofuel Production Chapter 12: Biosensors: A Biotechnological Tool for Monitoring Environmental Pollution Chapter 13: New Insights of Bacteriophages: Potential Tool for Wastewater Treatment Index