Bioremediation is a rapidly advancing field and the technology has been applied successfully to remediate many contaminated sites. The goal of every soil remediation method is to enhance the degradation, transformation, or detoxification of pollutants and to protect, maintain and sustain environmental quality.

Advances in our understanding of the ecology of microbial communities capable of breaking down various pollutants and the molecular and biochemical mechanisms by which biodegradation occurs have helped us in developing practical soil bioremediation strategies. Chapters dealing with the application of biological methods to soil remediation are contributed from experts - authorities in the area of environmental science including microbiology and molecular biology - from academic institutions and industry.

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Biological Remediation of Soil: An Overview of Global Market and Available Technologies.- Local Gain, Global Loss: The Environmental Cost of Action.- Bioavailability of Contaminants in Soil.- Biosurfactants in Bioremediation.- The Diversity of Soluble Di-iron Monooxygenases with Bioremediation Applications.- Bioremediation of Polluted Soil.- Soil Bioremediation Strategies Based on the Use of Fungal Enzymes.- Anaerobic Metabolism and Bioremediation of Explosives-Contaminated Soil.- Biological Remediation of Petroleum Contaminants.- Bioremediation of Benzene-contaminated Underground Aquifers.- Microbial Remediation of Metals in Soils.- Transformations of Toxic Metals and Metalloids by Pseudomonas stutzeri Strain KC and its Siderophore Pyridine-2,6-bis(thiocarboxylic acid).- Biomining Microorganisms: Molecular Aspects and Applications in Biotechnology and Bioremediation.- Advances in Phytoremediation and Rhizoremediation.- Phytoremediation for Oily Desert Soils.- Heavy Metal Phytoremediation: Microbial Indicators of Soil Health for the Assessment of Remediation Efficiency.- The Environment and the Tools in Rhizo- and Bioremediation of Contaminated Soil.- Molecular Tools for Monitoring and Validating Bioremediation.