Environmental Biomonitoring: The Biotechnology Ecotoxicology Interface

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

• ISBN13: 9780521621410
• ISBN10: 0521621410
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-04-28
• 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 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

List of contributors	ix	(3)
Foreword	xii	(2)
Sir Robert May
Acknowledgement	xiv
Introduction: the value of biomonitors in bioremediation strategies against ecotoxicants	1	(6)
J. M. Lynch
A. Wiseman
Part I Ecotoxicology and biomonitoring	7	(126)
1 Our environmental future: the role of science	7	(10)
J. R. Krebs
2 Pollution and its ecotoxicological consequences	17	(10)
J. H. Koeman
3 Advances in biomonitoring: sensitivity and reliability in PAH-contaminated soil	27	(19)
A. Wetzel
4 Microbial parameters for monitoring soil pollution	46	(24)
C. E. Pankhurst
S. L. Rogers
V. V. S. R. Gupta
5 Release of genetically modified micro-organisms and biomonitoring	70	(31)
F. A. A. M. De Leij
M. J. Bailey
J. M. Whipps
I. P. Thompson
P. A. Bramwell
J. M. Lynch
6 Biomonitoring in the aqueous environment: use of cytochromes P4501A and other molecular biomarkers in fish and mussels	101	(32)
D. R. Livingstone
P. S. Goldfarb
Part II Ecotoxicology and bioremediation	133	(90)
7 Use of non-indigenous organisms for bioremediation: the promise and concern	133	(14)
R. R. Colwell
8 Bioremediation: case studies	147	(10)
R. M. Atlas
9 Utilization of biocatalysts in cellulose waste minimization	157	(23)
J. Woodward
B. R. Evans
10 Sensors for nitrogen removal monitoring in wastewater treatment	180	(28)
K. Gernaey
H. Bogaert
P. Vanrolleghem
L. Van Vooren
W. Verstraete
11 Nitrogen fertilizer and ecotoxicology: global distribution of environmental pollution caused by food production	208	(15)
H. Kawashima
K. Okamoto
M. J. Bazin
J. M. Lynch
Part III Biosafety regulations and economics	223	(64)
12 Risk perception, attitudes and defence strategies associated with toxic substances: the case of lead contamination in Hungary	223	(12)
Z. Fuzesi
L. Tistyan
A. Vari
13 Risk, economics and legislation: risk assessment methodology	235	(12)
B. J. Nordenstam
14 Environmental biomonitoring: legal problems world-wide	247	(19)
S. Battersby
15 Bioremediation: an economic perspective	266	(21)
S. Shohet
Part IV Directional pointers to future environmental problems	287	(6)
16 Development of `fail-safe strategies' (FSS) to combat biomonitored biohazards from environmental xenobiotics	287	(6)
A. Wiseman
J. M. Lynch
Index	293