Transcription of Environmental Biotechnology: An Overview
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CHAPTER 1. Environmental biotechnology : An Overview As industrial biotechnology continues to expand in many sectors around the world, it has the potential to be both disruptive and transformative, offering opportunities for industries to reap unprecedented benefits through pollution prevention. Brent Erickson (2005) [1]. Two of the important topics at the threshold of the 21st century have been the envi- ronment and biotechnology . Erickson, representing BIO, the largest biotechnology orga- nization, with more than 1200 members worldwide, succinctly yet optimistically 1. characterized the marriage of Environmental issues with the advances in biotechnology . Considered together, they present some of the greatest opportunities and challenges to the scientific community. Biotechnologies offer glimpses to solutions to some very difficult Environmental problems, such as improved energy sources ( literally green'' sources like genetically modified algae), elimination and treatment of toxic wastes ( genetically modified bacteria to break down persistent organic compounds in sediments and oil spills), and better ways to detect pollution ( transgenic fish used as indicators by changing different colors in the presence of specific pollutants in a drinking water plant).
a modicum of foresight. Since this is actually the rationale for environmental impact state-ments (EISs), they provide a worthwhile framework for the application of biochemodynamics in environmental assessments. The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) was the first of the major pieces of legislation
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