Biological Technologies for the Remediation of Contaminated Agricultural Soil
A special issue of Agronomy (ISSN 2073-4395). This special issue belongs to the section "Soil and Plant Nutrition".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2021) | Viewed by 3447
Special Issue Editors
Interests: environmental impact assessment; wastewater treatment; sustainable development; sustainable agriculture; environmental analysis; environmental pollution
Interests: precision farming; site-specific crop management; UAS applications in agriculture; GIS and remote sensing; spatial decision support systems; environmental monitoring; soil rehabilitation
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Soil is a non-renewable natural resource, meaning that its degradation and loss is not recoverable through time. It takes about 1000 years to form 1 cm of topsoil, and according to the current rate of soil degradation, the capacity of future generations to meet their most basic needs is extremely threatened. Furthermore, it is estimated that 95 percent of food is directly or indirectly produced on soils, and hence, healthy soils are the key to food security and to a sustainable future. Agriculture has a profound effect on the planet, and unsustainable or poor agricultural practices can degrade soil in various ways. Today, one third of the Earth’s soils are moderately or highly degraded due to erosion, loss of soil organic carbon, salinization, compaction, acidification, and chemical pollution. Soil pollution is devastating to the environment and has consequences for all forms of life that encounter it, as it causes a chain reaction. It is therefore of high importance that the scientific community takes action to not only safeguard this resource, but also rehabilitate degraded soils. Please share your success stories from research in remediation of contaminated agriculture soil around the world in this Special Issue. Submissions on (but not limited to) the following topics are invited: (1) Innovative methods for monitoring and assessing soil quality, (2) novel biological methods in soil remediation, (3) interdisciplinary approaches in biological soil remediation, (4) advances in molecular microbial ecology toward soil remediation, (5) genetic engineering considerations in soil bioremediation, (6) progress in methods for in situ remediation approaches, and (7) economic, social, and sustainable aspects of soil bioremediation.
Dr. Maria K. Doula
Dr. Antonis Papadopoulos
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Soil ecology
- Soil quality
- Soil degradation
- Soil bioremediation
- Phytoremediation
- Integrated soil bioremediation systems
- Sustainable agriculture
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