Environmental Biomonitoring: The Biotechnology Ecotoxicology Interface

by Edited by James M. Lynch , Alan Wiseman , Foreword by Robert May

• ISBN13: 9780521187732
• ISBN10: 0521187737
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-06-02
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Traditionally the province of chemists, the problem of environmental pollution is increasingly being tackled using methodologies which have a biological basis. This 1998 volume provides a range of examples of how biotechnology can offer sensitive and ecologically relevant new ways of monitoring the presence of biohazards in our environment and, once detected, how these biohazards can be removed in an ecologically safe way through bioremediation. Additional chapters on economic, legislative and policy aspects set the topic in its social context, resulting in a broad-ranging volume of value to all those concerned with the science of ecologically effective environmental protection and management.

Table of Contents

Foreword R. May

The value of biomonitors in bioremediation strategies against ecotoxicants

Ocotoxicology and Biomonitoring:

Our environmental future - the role of science

Pollution and its ecotoxicological consequences

Advances in biomonitoring sensitivity and reliability in PAH-contaminated soil

Microbial parameters for monitoring soil pollution

Release of genetically-modified microorganisms and biomonitoring

Biomonitoring in the aqueous environment: use of cytochromes P450 and other molecular biomarkers in fish and mussels

Ecotoxicology and Bioremediation:

Use of non-indigenous organisms for bioremediation - the promise and the concerns

Bioremediation case studies

Utilisation of biocatalysts in cellulose waste minimisation

Sensors for nitrogen-removal monitoring in waste-water treatment

Nitrogen fertilizer and ecotoxicology: global distribution of environmental pollution caused by food production

Biosafety Regulations and Economics:

Risk perception attitudes and defence strategies associated with toxic substances: the case of lead contamination in

Risk economics, risk assessment and legislation: methodology

Environmental biomonitoring - legal problems world-wide

Bioremediation - an economic perspective

Directional-Pointers to Future Environmental Problems:

Development of 'Fail-Safe Strategies' to combat biohazards from environmental xenobiotics

Index

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