Environmental biotechnology is a vast and rapidly growing field, which continues to revolutionise the understanding of basic life sustaining processes in the environment, by identifying and exploiting the biomolecules and their, utilities to provide clean technologies, in order to counter environmental problems.
Textbook of Environmental Biotechnology summarises various aspects of environmental biotechnology and is divided into 13 chapters. It discusses: scope of environmental biotechnology, environment and ecology, environmental pollution, microbial metabolism, analytical techniques for environmental monitoring, management and treatment of waste bioreactors for waste treatment effluent treatment, value added products from organic waste global environmental issues at national and international level. A unique feature of the book is chapters on biological waste treatment bioremediation and bioenergy from waste.