About the Book: Textbook of Environmental Biotechnology
Environmental biotechnology is a vast and rapidly growing field, which
continues to revolutionise 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. This textbook of Environmental Biotechnology summarises various
aspects of environmental biotechnology and is divided into 13 chapters. This
edition discusses: scope of environmental biotechnology, environment and
ecology, environmental pollution, microbial metabolism, analytical techniques
for environmental monitoring, management and treatment of waste, bioreactors for
waste treatment, effluent treatment, value added products from organic waste,
global environmental issues at national and