Perspectives in Bioremediation - Technologies for Environmental Improvement (Hardcover, illustrated edition)

Bioremediation - the use of microorganisms for environmental clean-up - is a technology that is experiencing a rapid phase of development. The authors of this text an understanding of the current progress and limitations of technologies that are designed to help nature herself. The book draws together many different aspects of environmental remediation: the environmental engineer is introduced to the bacteria of contaminated environments and the ideas developing from genetic engineering; the environmental microbiologist can grasp site assessment and the predictive kinetic analysis of potentials. The book provides an introduction to the nature of and potential for bioremediation to contribute to a critical global effort in eliminating contamination of the world's resources and to start to reverse decades of environmental mismanagement and neglect.

General

Imprint:	Kluwer Academic Publishers
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	NATO Science Partnership Subseries 3: High Technology, v. 19
Release date:	November 1996
First published:	November 1996
Editors:	J.R. Wild • Sergei Dmitrievich Varfolomeyev • Andrea Scozzafava
Dimensions:	230mm (L)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	140
Edition:	illustrated edition
ISBN-13:	978-0-7923-4339-4
Categories:	Books > Professional & Technical > Environmental engineering & technology > Pollution control Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Pollution & threats to the environment > General
LSN:	0-7923-4339-5
Barcode:	9780792343394

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