Microbiology and Biotechnology for a Sustainable Environment

The more efforts humanity puts forward to control nature, the more environmental pollution increases, and because of this the future is getting more and more insecure. Environmental protection is the primary concern for the future of humanity. There are vast scientific communities working towards the development of eco-technologies, which can improve environmental sustainability without hampering the development of society. The environmental protection agencies recognized that developing technology acts as a key to this sustainability and protecting the environment from damages that technological advances could potentially bring. Environmental Microbiology and Biotechnology has emerged as very important and promising disciplines in the last two decades. Biotechnology has shown a great promise in solving a plethora of environmental problems. The major goal of this book is to emphasize all the disciplines from the subject of environmental microbiology and biotechnology. This book fills a long felt gap in the field of environmental sustainability and presents chapters authored by active researchers in this area. Considerable emphasis is given on all the currently significant research topics/areas, which can be used in the future for the sustainable development of society through environmental protection. Attempts have been made to provide balanced coverage of advancements that have been achieved to protect the environment. We can anticipate this book has valuable knowledge for all the academic levels, with the main emphases on scientific community. This book is a valuable reference for graduate as well as post-graduate students to cover the syllabi related to technologies for environmental protection. The authors provide comprehensive, accessible and updated information to teachers, students and researchers in the fields of biotechnology, environmental science, microbiology, botany, zoology, environmental engineering and many other disciplines.