Risk Assessment of Heavy Metal Pollution in Farmland Soil
A special issue of Agronomy (ISSN 2073-4395). This special issue belongs to the section "Soil and Plant Nutrition".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 May 2026 | Viewed by 73
Special Issue Editors
Interests: environmental monitoring; assessment in agriculture and rural areas; pollution prevention and control technology
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Strengthening farmland protection is a crucial guarantee for food security, sustainable agricultural development, and the quality and safety of agricultural products. The spatial distribution of heavy metals in cultivated land varies greatly. Meanwhile, with the diversified development of the social economy, there is a lack of refined prevention and control technologies and supervision methods for heavy metal pollution in farmland in different regions. This Special Issue, in response to the important mission of farmland protection, solicits the latest research manuscripts related to the entire chain of farmland protection, Source tracing, soil environment monitoring, restoration, restoration effect assessment, and supervision technology methods.
What kind of papers are we soliciting:
- Monitoring and risk assessment of the farmland soil environment;
- Source tracing, remediation technology, and a model of heavy metal pollution in farmland;
- Evaluation of the effect of farmland restoration;
- Intelligent and information-based supervision of farmland land protection and restoration;
- Policies for the protection and restoration management of farmland land.
Prof. Dr. Rongguang Shi
Dr. Tiantian Ma
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- farmland protection
- environmental monitoring
- risk assessment restoration and governance
- regulatory techniques and policies
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