Bioremediation and Sustainability : Research and Applications / edited by Romeela Mohee and Ackmez Mudhoo. Mohee, Romeela. Mudhoo, Ackmez. Bioremediation. Sustainability. TD192.5 .B556926 2012eb 628.1/683 23 Includes bibliographical references and index. Sustainable development requires the development and promotion of environmental management and a constant search for green technologies to treat a wide range of aquatic and terrestrial habitats contaminated by increasing anthropogenic activities with the main sources of contaminants being the chemical industries. Bioremediation is a technique that uses living organisms in order to degrade or transform contaminants into their less toxic forms. It is based on the existence of microorganisms with capacity to attack the compounds on the enzymatic level. Bioremediation is an increasingly popular low. Hoboken, New Jersey : John Wiley & Sons, Inc. ; Salem, Massachusetts : Scrivener Publishing LLC, ©2012. ©2012. 2012 Text 1 online resource (xxviii, 407 pages :) : http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9781118371220 eng Bioremediation and Sustainability : Research and Applications. Bioremediation and Sustainability : Research and Applications.