Environmental
Biotechnology Basic Concepts and Applications
Category :
Biotechnology
Author/s :
Prof.
Indu Shekhar Thakur
ISBN :
8188237523
Price :
Rs 250.00
Pages :
486
Year :
2006
HB / PB :
Paperback
Book Details
:
The field of Environmental
Sciences has acquired new dimensions in the last
fifty years, due to the changing scenario of population
explosion, agricultural activities for food production,
rapid industrial development for commercial and
household commodities and so on. The upsurge in
all these activities has contributed in one way
or the other to environmental problems at the local,
regional and global levels. Economic growth and
the continuing heavy consumption of natural resources
and energy are responsible for global environmental
crisis like global warming, acid rain and the destruction
of the ozone layer.
This has resulted in an increased interest in this
area and most institutions today have included it
as a part of their educational curriculum.
Environmental biotechnology is a huge and fast growing
field, which continues to revolutinise the understanding
of basic life sustaining processes in the environment,
by identifying and exploiting the biomolecules and
their utilities to provide clean technologies, in
order to counter environmental problems.
Contents :
Introduction / Development and
evolution of the environment and ecosystem processes
/ Environmental resources-air, water and soil /
Environmental perturbation-air, water and soil pollution
/ Global environmental problems / Structural and
functional dynamics of microbial life / Air pollution
and its control / Water pollution and its control
/ Solid waste and its control / Degradation of natural
compounds / Degradation of xenobiotics compounds
/ Bioabsorption of metals / Bioremediation / Biopesticides
/ Biomethanation / Bioplastics / Composting / Bioleaching
/ Biofuel / Diary industry / Sugar and Distillery
industry / Tannery industry / Dye industry / Pharmaceutical
and antibiotic industry / Pulp and paper industry
/ Petroleum industry / Index
