Environmental Ecological Remediation and Farming Sustainability—3rd Edition

A special issue of Agronomy (ISSN 2073-4395).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 April 2025 | Viewed by 1728

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Laboratory of Environmental Ecological Remediation and Planning, School of Environmental and Biological Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing 210094, China
Interests: agricultural soil improvement; biochar; heavy metal stress; soil environmental chemistry; environmental contamination and remediation; agricultural solid waste resource utilization; environmental bioremediation; soil science and soil reclamation; soil amendments; soil and groundwater remediation techniques; risk assessment of contaminated sites; ecological planning; agricultural landscape planning
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Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Farmland Conservation and Pollution Prevention, School of Resources and Environment, Anhui Agricultural University, 130 Changjiangxilu Street, Hefei 230036, China
Interests: soil science; farmland conservation and pollution prevention; phosphorus efficient utilization and water environment protection; applied microbiology; phosphate-solubilizing fungi; heavy metal remediation; bioremediation
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Dear Colleagues,

Environmental pollution caused by anthropogenic substances or the uncontrolled utilization of natural resources has become a global problem threatening agricultural ecology and food security. Maintaining a healthy agricultural ecosystem is critical to ensuring a healthy future. The substantial efforts made in this field have become significant in the research of mitigating or remediating environmental pollution, especially in agricultural research.

To date, multiple innovative technologies related to environmental mitigation/remediation, including physical/chemical remediation, multiple-compound adsorbent, and bioremediation technology, have been developed and validated to better protect soil, water, and atmosphere environments. Additionally, macro-environmental and ecological planning increasingly play an important role in guiding environmental restoration. However, a range of research gaps have not been filled. Therefore, it is urgent to combine the latest environmental pollution problems with advanced remediation technology to develop new technologies to protect the environment.

Furthermore, with the continuous emergence of emerging pollutants and the innovative application of artificial intelligence (AI) technology in agricultural environmental remediation, a series of new research hotspots are gradually emerging. These encompass utilizing AI for the efficient and precise detection of emerging pollutants, optimizing remediation strategies to enhance efficiency, constructing intelligent pollution warning systems, and developing smart ecological planning tools, all aimed at comprehensively promoting the sustainable development of the agricultural ecological environment. These cutting-edge explorations will undoubtedly become important directions and hot topics in future scientific research.

This Special Issue focuses on the current situation of environmental ecological remediation and farming sustainability, and helps to mitigate environmental pollution from the micro and macro levels.

New research articles, reviews, and case reports are welcome in this Special Issue. Manuscripts dealing with new approaches to applying novel remediation technology, remediation mechanisms and influencing factors, risk assessment, and management are also welcome.

We encourage prospective authors to submit related distinguished research manuscripts focused on (but not limited to) the following topics:

  • Material development for soil remediation;
  • Water pollution remediation improvement technologies;
  • Bioremediation technology application;
  • Urban and rural ecological sustainability strategies;
  • Farmland conservation and P comprehensive utilization;
  • Biodiversity and ecosystem service;
  • Soil fertility and solid waste utilization;
  • Carbon and nitrogen cycles and climate change;
  • Emerging pollutant detection and AI-assisted identification technology;
  • AI optimization of environmental pollution remediation strategies;
  • Agricultural environmental pollution warning system based on big data and AI;
  • AI-driven ecological planning and decision support system.

Dr. Haoming Chen
Dr. Da Tian
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • soil contamination groundwater contamination
  • green and sustainable remediation
  • environment pollution control
  • heavy metals
  • organic pollutants
  • emerging contaminants
  • biochar
  • remediation of cultivated land pollution
  • crop growth safety
  • p comprehensive utilization
  • reuse of agricultural waste
  • sustainable agricultural development
  • ecological and landscape planning
  • human settlements

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Bibliometric Analysis of Contemporary Research on the Amelioration of Saline Soils
by Hui Zhang, Yuancai Wang, Lichang Liu, Jiayi Zhou, Qun Wan, Ji Chen, Yaoyao Cao, Leigang Zhang, Fayun Feng, Qi Ning and Xiangyang Yu
Agronomy 2024, 14(12), 2935; https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy14122935 - 9 Dec 2024
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The decreasing availability of agricultural land, coupled with the growing global population, presents significant challenges worldwide. Reclaiming saline–alkali soil offers a promising solution to alleviate these challenges. Improving and utilizing saline soils present ecological challenges that are influenced by both technological advancements and [...] Read more.
The decreasing availability of agricultural land, coupled with the growing global population, presents significant challenges worldwide. Reclaiming saline–alkali soil offers a promising solution to alleviate these challenges. Improving and utilizing saline soils present ecological challenges that are influenced by both technological advancements and socio-economic factors. This study presents a bibliometric analysis of the published research on saline soil remediation and reclamation from 1985 to the present, using data indexed by the Web of Science Core Collection: Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Science Citation Index. This analysis includes 16,729 publications, which indicate that, over the years, many scientists have conducted extensive research on enhancing and using sodic lands. Countries like the United States, China, Australia, Pakistan, Poland, India, Egypt, and Israel have been pioneers in this field. Furthermore, we summarize trends in this research area, highlighting how strategies for saline soil reclamation have evolved from physical and chemical remediation to salt-tolerant crop breeding and bioremediation applications. With the advancements in science and technology, more methods and strategies have become available to facilitate saline soil remediation. Consequently, management strategies combining multiple technologies will become more effective and provide powerful approaches for reclaiming arable soil from high-salinity marginal lands. Full article
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Heavy Metal Remediation Using Phosphate-Solubilizing Fungi: From Bioprocess to Application
by Da Tian, Shuo Zhang, Dechao Wang, Liangliang Zhang, Haoming Chen and Xinxin Ye
Agronomy 2024, 14(11), 2638; https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy14112638 - 8 Nov 2024
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Heavy metal pollution has been a major environmental issue in recent years, seriously threatening land, water sources, agriculture, and human health. The remediation of heavy metal pollution has been a continuously vital issue for current research. Bioremediation is an effective and cost-efficient approach [...] Read more.
Heavy metal pollution has been a major environmental issue in recent years, seriously threatening land, water sources, agriculture, and human health. The remediation of heavy metal pollution has been a continuously vital issue for current research. Bioremediation is an effective and cost-efficient approach to reduce heavy metal toxicity. Phosphate-solubilizing fungi (PSF) have shown promise in heavy metal bioremediation due to their high tolerance and activity levels. However, the full potential of PSF in bioremediation needs further exploration. PSF activity, metabolite production, and environmental conditions can influence their efficiency in remediating heavy metals. These factors play a critical role in the practical application of PSF and necessitate improvement pathways. This article reviews potential strategies to enhance heavy metal remediation using PSF and optimizing bioprocesses and applications. Full article
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