Impact of Environmental Pollution: Towards Contaminant Assessment and Sustainable Remediation
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Sciences".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 October 2025 | Viewed by 33
Special Issue Editors
2. National Biodiversity Future Center (NBFC), Piazza Marina 61, 90133 Palermo, Italy
Interests: environmental pollution; persisten organic pollutants; endocrine active substances; emerging pollutant; trace elements; contaminant fate and exposure effects; bioaccumulation; biodistribution; environmental toxicology; environmental monitoring; bioremediation; extraction and analysis of pollutants; risk assessment
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Environmental pollution represents a growing threat to ecosystems, human health, and biodiversity. The continuous release of contaminants such as persistent organic pollutants (POPs), endocrine-active substances (EASs), contaminants of emerging concern (CECs), and potentially toxic elements (PTEs) necessitates a deeper understanding of their fate, bioaccumulation, and toxicological effects. Investigating their distribution in environmental matrices and their impact on living organisms is crucial for developing effective monitoring and remediation strategies. Additionally, estimating bioaccumulation potentials/descriptors is essential to assesing contaminant behavior.
This Special Issue explores innovative approaches to environmental monitoring, pollutant extraction and analysis, and risk assessment. We welcome contributions focusing on advanced analytical techniques for detecting contaminants, assessing their ecological and health risks, and evaluating their transport and transformation in the environment. Special attention will be given to biomonitoring techniques that utilize biological indicators to track exposure and ecosystem health. Additionally, we encourage research on sustainable remediation, including bioremediation, degradation processes, nature-based solutions, and novel pollutant removal technologies.
This Special Issue aims to advance research in environmental toxicology and sustainable remediation, fostering interdisciplinary collaboration to address pollution challenges.
Recommended topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Environmental monitoring and pollutant detection.
- Fate, transport, and bioavailability of contaminants.
- Bioaccumulation and biodistribution in aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems.
- Estimation of bioaccumulation potentials and descriptors.
- Toxicological effects.
- Biomonitoring using biological indicators.
- Extraction, identification, and analysis of pollutants.
- Risk assessment approaches.
- Photodegradation and other degradation processes.
- Sustainable and nature-based remediation techniques.
- Bioremediation strategies for pollutant removal.
Dr. Dario Savoca
Guest Editor
Dr. Silvia Orecchio
Guest Editor Assistant
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Keywords
- analytical chemistry
- environmental chemistry
- environmental impact
- xenobiotic substances
- toxic compounds
- exposure effects
- bioindicator
- biomagnification
- pollutant removal
- environmental remediation
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