Research in Emerging Contaminants: Impact and Solutions
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Earth Science and Medical Geology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2023) | Viewed by 10027
Special Issue Editors
Interests: ecotoxicology; environmental health of emerging contaminants
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
With the acceleration of global industrialization, urbanization, and other human activities, various anthropogenic chemicals are used and discharged into the environment. Continuous exposure to the pollutant environment will lead to adverse biological effects, which damage the growth and reproduction of animals and plants. It also endangers human health throughout the food chain, leading to various chronic diseases such as obesity, cancer, reproductive abnormalities, and organ damage. To understand the direct and indirect effects of human activities on the total environment, it is necessary to explore the biological response of environmental contaminants and provide the theoretical basis for preventing and reducing environmental contaminations. It is conducive to the rational control of environmental contamination and solving environmental problems gradually if we can master the migration and transformation of contaminants in environmental media through in-depth research.
This special issue aims to evaluate the potential risks of emerging contaminants (microplastics, nanomaterials, persistent organic pollutants, pesticides, and other emerging compounds) to the distinctive ecological environment, biota, and human health. On this basis, after exploring the interactions among various contaminants, bioavailability, ecotoxicology, and biodiversity, the establishment of a biogeochemical cycle model of environmental contaminants and risk assessment through biological response mechanism can promote the effective control of contaminants. It is committed to solving the mechanism of the pollution process and effect, related technologies, and methods, and then offers great support to the control of environmental pollution and their potential risk assessment.
Dr. Cheng Zhang
Dr. Xiaokai Zhang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- environmental contamination
- biogeochemical behavior
- toxicity
- risk assessment
- contamination control
- ecotoxicology