Soil Contamination and Remediation: Recent Research and Future Challenges
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Science and Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2023) | Viewed by 452
Special Issue Editor
Interests: soil pollution remediation; environment geochemistry; soil environmental pollution; new pollutants; heavy metal pollution; soil quality improvement; ecological risk assessment
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
As a basic ecological system, soils are of great importance to human beings on Earth, supporting social and economic development in most parts of the world. In recent years, there has been many challenges relating to the protection and management of the soil environment around the world. The accurate assessment of the transformation and migration of heavy metals, new pollutants, and other pollutants in different environmental media in a soil environment is of critical importance due to the different strength of influence of anthropogenic and natural processes. However, the occurrence of pollutants, as well as their distribution, process, fate, and environmental influences, is still not clear enough. Determining how to identify soil environmental quality and contamination (including pollution levels, sources of pollutants, migration, and influencing factors) is of significant importance for alleviating pressure on the soil environment and achieving efficient environmental management and ecological environment protection. The proposed Special Issue is Soil Contamination and Remediation: Recent Research and Future Challenges. This may involve the environmental behavior and processes of pollutants, migration and transformation processes, environmental health risk assessment, and soil quality improvement. Topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- The soil quality impacted by both anthropogenic and natural processes;
- The migration and transformation processes of soil pollutants (heavy metals, emerging pollutants, etc.) driven by human activities and environmental factors;
- The assessment of ecological risk and human health risk of pollutants in different environmental media of soils;
- The soil quality improvement and clarification of pollutants sources in a soil ecosystem.
Dr. Zhenming Zhang
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- soil contamination
- heavy metals in soil
- emerging pollutants in soil
- migration and transformation
- soil quality improvement
- risk assessment
- soil quality management
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