Heavy Metals in Soil: Source, Transformation, Transfer, Risk and Pollution Remediation
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 (31 March 2023) | Viewed by 3510
Special Issue Editor
Interests: heavy metals; soil-crop-human system; geochemical process; pollution remediation; vegetable cultivation
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Dear Colleagues,
Accumulation and contamination of heavy metals in soil have attracted worldwide concern because high concentrations of heavy metals in soil may induce deleterious effects on human health via multiple pathways, such as food chain, dermal contact and inhalation. For soil health management and sustainable land use, our understanding should be improved about quantitative source apportionment of heavy metals in soil, ecological and human health risk issues caused by metals in soil, transformation and transfer of metals, especially in soil–crop–human systems as well as remediation strategies of soil metal pollution with consideration of different metal elements and land use, which is also the aim of this Special Issue. In this Special Issue proposed by the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH), the latest and high-quality original research articles, reviews and short communications on the field mentioned above are welcome.
Here, are some examples of topics that could be addressed in this Special Issue (but are not limited to):
- New insights in source apportionment and impact of heavy metals in soil
- Factors influencing biogeochemistry process of trace metals in soil-crop-human systems
- Novel methodology or integrated approaches of ecological and human health risk assessment
- Novel single or combined remediation methods of metal pollution in soil
Dr. Lanqin Yang
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- heavy metals
- soil
- source apportionment
- speciation transformation
- bioavailability
- bioaccessibility
- risk
- phytoremediation
- metal immobilization
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