BIOREMEDIATION: A BIOTECHNOLOGICAL APPROACH TOWARD ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Abstract

Biotechnology has emerged as an applied discipline of biological research with its application in agriculture, forestry and industry as well as in medicine. An equally important area of global concern that has emerged only recently is the environmental Biotechnology. It is concerned both with the implications and applications of Biotechnology in the wider context of environment. Due to rapid industrialization, urbanization and other developments, there is a constant threat to the environment and to the depleting natural resources. Both these problems are receiving constant attention of environmentalists