Past, Present and Future Trends in the Remediation of Contaminated Soil and Agricultural Environments
A special issue of Agronomy (ISSN 2073-4395). This special issue belongs to the section "Soil and Plant Nutrition".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2025 | Viewed by 154
Special Issue Editor
2. Department of Mineralogy, Petrography and Geochemistry, Faculty of Geology, Geophysics and Environmental Protection, AGH University of Science and Technology, al. Mickiewicza 30, 30-059 Krakow, Poland
Interests: waste management; biochar; soil organic matter; mineral and organic fertilizers
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Dear Colleagues,
Rapid industrialisation and urbanisation are contributing to the entry of emerging contaminants into the environment. These issues pose significant threats to soil health and quality. Most worldwide policy frameworks, including the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, highlight soil as a key non-renewable natural resource that should be rigorously preserved to achieve long-term global sustainability. This is particularly important in the case of agricultural soils. Although some soil is naturally enriched with heavy metals (HMs), some anthropogenic activities are known to contribute to their redistribution, which may entail potentially harmful environmental and/or human health effects if certain concentrations are exceeded. There is a need for a comprehensive and systematic approach that takes into account the economic, social and environmental consequences of remediation methodologies in the development of sustainable solutions.
The following are some of the major areas in which papers are solicited:
- Innovative highly efficient and environmentally friendly remediation methods;
- Organic and inorganic materials supporting the purification of contaminated soil;
- Cultivation of plants supporting soil remediation;
- Environmental impacts of soil remediation;
- Physical, biological, or chemical remediation techniques in situ and ex situ;
- Economic aspects of environmental remediation (cost, processing time or environmental feasibility);
- Monitoring of soil pollution with trace elements and organic contaminants;
- Reclamation and revitalisation of contaminated soils;
- Ecotoxicity assessments and ecological risk assessment of contaminated soils;
- Inorganic vs. organic contaminant removal;
- Opportunity for resource recovery from contaminated soil;
- Biological, chemical and physical properties of contaminated soil.
Dr. Monika Mierzwa-Hersztek
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- organic and inorganic pollutants
- organic matter in contaminated soils
- nutrients
- soil improvers
- remediation techniques
- ecological risk assessment
- microorganisms
- enzymatic activity
- soil pollution
- contaminant removal
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