Environmental Biotechnology: A Biosystems Approach
Биотехнология и окружающая среда: Биосистемный подход
Год: 2010
Автор: Daniel A. Vallero / Даниел А. Валлеро
Издательство: Academic Press / Elsevier
ISBN: 978-0-12-375089-1
Язык: Английский
Формат: PDF
Качество: Изначально компьютерное (eBook)
Количество страниц: 795
Описание: For more than a century, biotechnology has acted as a vital buffer between people, pollution and the environment. The field is designed to moderate, if not eliminate, the stresses we inflict upon the world's ecosystems. In order to do this effectively, a systems approach must be employed to maximize the sustainability of our efforts and improve the long term health our environment.
This book will address the questions of how and why knowledge and understanding of the physical, chemical, and biological principles of the environment must be achieved for the effective development of biotechnology applications. Using a systems biology approach, Environmental Biotechnology will provide a context for researchers and practitioners in environmental science. It will serve as a complement to the useful guidebooks which provide the necessary specifications and criteria for a wide range of environmental designs and applications by providing the underlying principles for the specifications, an area which is most important to scientific researchers in this arena to develop further technologies.
* Provides a systems approach to biotechnologies which includes the physical, biological, and chemical processes in context
* Case studies include cutting-edge technologies such as nanobiotechnologies and green engineering
* Addresses both the applications and implications of biotechnologies by following the life-cycle of a variety of established and developing biotechnologies
Рассмотрены вопросы применения знаний и понимания физических, химических и биологических основ окружающей среды для эффективного развития биотехнологий
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Оглавление
PREFACE............................................................................................................................................................................. ix
CHAPTER 1 Environmental biotechnology: an overview............................................................................. 1
CHAPTER 2 A question of balance: using versus abusing biological systems ..................................... 45
CHAPTER 3 Environmental biochemodynamic processes........................................................................... 99
CHAPTER 4 Systems................................................................................................................................................ 167
CHAPTER 5 Environmental risks of biotechnologies ....................................................................................229
CHAPTER 6 Reducing biotechnological risks................................................................................................... 275
CHAPTER 7 Applied microbial ecology: bioremediation............................................................................... 325
CHAPTER 8 Biotechnological implications: a systems approach..............................................................401
CHAPTER 9 Environmental risks of biotechnologies: economic sector perspectives ...................... 443
CHAPTER 10 Addressing biotechnological pollutants..................................................................................... 491
CHAPTER 11 Analyzing the environmental implications of biotechnologies ..........................................539
CHAPTER 12 Responsible management of biotechnologies......................................................................... 577
APPENDIX 1 Background information on environmental impact statements........................................635
APPENDIX 2 Cancer slope factors........................................................................................................................ 641
APPENDIX 3 Verification method for rapid polymerase chain reaction systems
to detect biological agents........................................................................................................... 649
APPENDIX 4 Summary of persistent and toxic organic compounds
in North America, identified by the United Nations as highest
priorities for regional actions.........................................................................................................651
APPENDIX 5 Sample retrieval from ECOTOX database for Rainbow Trout
(Oncorhynchus mykiss) exposed to DDT and its metabolites
in freshwater ......................................................................................................................................663
GLOSSARY .........................................................................................................................................................................679
INDEX.................................................................................................................................................................................... 737
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