Environmental Ecological Remediation and Farming Sustainability—3rd Edition

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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