This book explores recent advances in heavy metal contamination research in a global context, and focusses on the role of recent technologies like recombinant bioremediation, phytoremediation, DNA technology and nanotechnology to provide sustainable managing strategies to mitigate adverse environmental and health impacts.
This book investigates Ludwik Fleck’s thought as a radical critique of institutionalized knowledge production, clarifying and extending his concepts to form an updated methodology.