Environmental Protection Strategies for Sustainable Development
The environment of our planet is degrading at an alarming rate because of non-sustainable urbanization, industrialization and agriculture. Unsustainable trends in relation to climate change and energy use, threats to public health, poverty and social exclusion, demographic pressure and ageing, manag...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer,
2012.
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| Series: | Strategies for Sustainability
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| Online Access: | Full Text via HEAL-Link |
Table of Contents:
- a1. Environmental Protection Strategies: An overview
- 2. The potential of rhizospheric microorganisms to promote the plant growth in disturbed soils.-3. Sustainable solutions for agro processing waste management: An overview.-4. Dyes - Environmental Impact and Remediation. -5. Molecular detection of resistance and transfer genes in environmental samples Elisabeth Grohmann and Karsten Arends.-6. Key biochemical attributes to assess soil ecosystem sustainability.-7. Methods for Genotoxicity testing of environmental pollutants.-8. Trends in biological degradation of cyanobacteria and toxins.-9. Bioremediation of pesticides from soil and wastewater.-10. Isolation and characterization of rhizobacteria antagonistic to Macrophomina phaseolina (Tassi) Goid., causal agent of alfalfa damping-off
- 11. Biofilm formation by environmental bacteria
- 12. Biochemical processes of rhizobacteria and their application in biotechnology
- 13. Pulp and paper industry-manufacturing process, wastewater generation and treatment
- 14. A review of environmental contamination and remediation strategies for heavy metals at shooting range soils
- 15. Peroxidases as a potential tool for the decolorization and removal of synthetic dyes from polluted water
- 16. Solid waste management options and their impacts on climate change and human health
- 17. Potential of biopesticides in sustainable agriculture.
