1st Edition
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.
1. Assessment of Some Hazards Associated with Dangerous Chemicals
Monica Butnariu and Elena Bonciu
2. Environmental Degradation as a Multifaceted Consequence of Human Development
Zulaykha Khurshid Dijoo and Rizwana Khurshid
3. Persistent Organic Pollutants: Sources, Impacts, and Their Remediation by Microalgae
Dig Vijay Singh, Atul Kumar Upadhyay, Ranjan Singh, and D. P. Singh
4. Microbial Intervention for Degradation of Agricultural Wastes
Tawseef Ahmad Mir, Muatasim Jan, and Mir Sajad Rabani
5. Microbial Consortium: A Biotechnological Tool for Enhanced Bioremediation in Pollution-Affected Environments
Saba Mir, Moonisa Aslam Dervash, Asif B. Shikari, and Wasia Showkat
6. Bioaugmentation: A Way Out for Remediation of Polluted Environments
Mohammad Yaseen Mir, Saima Hamid, and Gulab Khan Rohela
7. Biodegradable Waste: Renewable Energy Source
Monica Butnariu and Elena Bonciu
8. Intrusion of Biotechnology for Degradation of Organic Wastes
Rubiya Dar, Baba Uqab, Shah Ishfaq, Saleem Farooq, Riasa Zaffar, and Hina Mushtaq
9. Biotechnological Intervention for the Management of Agricultural Waste
Tijjani Sabiu Imam, Hadiza Abdullahi Ari, and Adamu Yunusa Ugya
10. Biofuels: Current Challenges and Possible Solutions
Adeyemi Adesina
11. Biotechnological Intercession in Biofuel Production
Wasia Showkat, Moonisa Aslam Dervash, Khalid Z. Masoodi, Javeed A. Mugloo, S. A. Gangoo, and Saba Mir
12. Biosensors: A Biotechnological Tool for Monitoring Environmental Pollution
Irteza Qayoom, Zulaykha Khurshid Dijoo, and Mehvish Hameed
13. New Insights of Bacteriophages: Potential Tool for Wastewater Treatment
Saima Hamid and Mohammad Yaseen Mir
Biography
Rouf Ahmad Bhat, Khalid Zaffar Masoodi
