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Environment Sustainability and Role of Biotechnology

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Innovations in Environmental Biotechnology

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Sustainability is the development which meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to fulfill their needs. Environmental sustainability respects and cares for all kinds of life forms existence without affecting the sustenance of natural resources. The best method of sustaining the environment is paying back all the components of ecosystem services in a recyclable mode. Where in biotic and abiotic harmony of environment restores aesthetic values and ecosystem services of the nature. This in turn maintains intricate equilibrium required for resurrecting the natural ecosystems. Environmental biotechnology is the branch of biotechnology that addresses environmental issues removal of pollutants, renewable energy generation or biomass production, by involving biological entities and their process. Environmental biotechnology has its greatest contribution to agriculture, especially by improving crop yields for environment sustenance. It offers opportunities to create designer crops of specific environments and to make crops more efficient producers of food and energy. Thus, biotechnology can manipulate primary energy flows; it can also reduce fossil-fuel energy inputs into agricultural systems. Moreover, it contributes to the mitigation of environmental problems such as deforestation and soil erosion. Green energy methods/biofuels are urgently needed to replace fossil fuels in order to battle pollution and the threat of global warming. Biotechnology constitutes a vehicle for the improved manipulation of biogeochemical cycles, wherein bioremediation and biodegradation alleviate conditions of polluted soil and degraded water ecosystems. Industrial biotechnology aims to alter the manufacturing process by reducing wastes generation-conserving natural resources, trimming costs, and speeding new “greener” market products. Emerging biotechnologies having low-input techniques involving microbes, plants and animals offering novel approaches (genetic manipulation or ‘engineering’) for striking a balance between developmental needs and environmental conservation. This chapter reviews the issues relating to the use of biotechnological methods vis-à-vis biotools in solving the problems of environmental degradation and sustainable development .

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