Soil Pollution and Remediation: Recent Developments and Future Perspectives
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Sciences".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 June 2025 | Viewed by 3705
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Dear Colleagues,
In recent decades, due to intensifying agricultural, industrial, and commercial development, alarming amounts of toxic pollutants have been accumulating in agricultural soils. Consequently, soil has become a sink for various kinds of pollutants, including inorganic, organic, and biological pollutants, such as pesticides, fertilizers, heavy metals, and pharmaceuticals. Soil pollution has been identified as a global environmental issue, posing potential risks to soil ecosystems, natural water resources, food security, and human health. Therefore, emerging soil remediation technologies are required in order to make polluted soils safer for humans and other organisms.
This Special Issue focuses on soil pollution with both traditional and emerging contaminants as well as novel and green remediation technologies to maintain environmental quality and human health. The topics proposed for this Special Issue include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Occurrence, fate, and transformation of contaminants in soil;
- Soil pollutant monitoring, modelling, and risk assessment.;
- Risks, toxicity, and ecological effects of soil contaminants;
- Interactions between soil components and pollutants and their impacts on soil ecosystems;
- Novel environmentally friendly soil remediation techniques and approaches;.
- Impacts of soil contaminants on beneficial soil microorganisms and the release of enzyme secretions.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Prof. Dr. George Fouad Antonious
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- soil pollution
- inorganic, organic and biological pollutants
- soil remediation
- phytoremediation
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