Environmental Biomonitoring The Biotechnology Ecotoxicology Interface [Paperback]

First published in 1998, this broad-ranging volume is concerned with ecologically effective environmental protection and management.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.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.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.Foreword R. May; 1. The value of biomonitors in bioremediation strategies against ecotoxicants J. M. Lynch and A. Wiseman; Part I. Ocotoxicology and Biomonitoring: 2. Our environmental future - the role of science J. Krebs; 3. Pollution and its ecotoxicological consequences J. H. Koeman; 4. Advances in biomonitoring sensitivity and reliability in PAH-contaminated soil A. Wetzel; 5. Microbial parameters for monitoring soil pollution C. E. Pankhurst, S. L. Rogers and V. V. S. R. Gupta; 6. Release of genetically-modified microorganisms and biomonitoring F. A. A. M. De Leij, M. J. BaillC7