Screening and Recognition of Environmental Organic Pollutants
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 (31 March 2023) | Viewed by 3953
Special Issue Editor
Interests: environmental behavior and ecological effects of organic pollutants; new analytical methods for emerging organic pollutants; machine learning and quantitative structure-activity relationship
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Organic pollutants (OPs) represent plenty of chemicals that could pose threats to the health of both humans and wildlife. In 1962, the great book “Silent Spring” by Rachel Carson was published, which completely changed the way people thought about nature and organic manufactured chemical compounds. Then, nearly forty years later, the “Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants” was adopted on May 22nd, 2001, which indicated that we start the war to complete the elimination of POPs. However, with adverse consequences of uncontrolled development of multiple human activities, other OPs were continuously produced via deliberate or unintentional activities, and thus we are still facing extremely serious pollution status mediated by OPs. The environmental protection research also has experienced a gradual process from conventional atmospheric pollutants (e.g., sulfur dioxide, dust, etc.), conventional water pollutants (e.g., COD) treatment, and heavy metal pollution control to trace environmental organic pollutants reduction.
To date, the analysis methods, environmental behavior, ecological risk, and environmental health of environmental organic pollutants (EOPs) are hot topics in environmental science research. In particular, to accurately understand the potential risks of EOPs, some effective and efficient methods for screening and recognizing of EOPs are needed. Therefore, this Special Issue of the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH) focuses on the current state of screening and recognition of EOPs. New research papers, reviews, viewpoints, case reports, and conference papers are welcome to this issue. Papers dealing with new approaches to derive EOPs standards or risk assessment and management are also welcome. Other manuscript types accepted include methodological papers, position papers, brief reports, and commentaries. In specific, a broad outline of this Special Issue's scope includes but is not limited to:
- New analysis methods of emerging EOPs;
- Environmental behavior, fate, and adverse effects of EOPs and their potential metabolites;
- Mathematical modeling, systems analysis, machine learning, and beneficial use of big data related to the screening and recognizing of EOPs;
- Screening of priority EOPs and risk assessment for natural and artificial water bodies;
- Targeted/Non-targeted screening techniques for EOPs in environmental media;
- Toxicity identification evaluation and effect-directed analysis of EOPs;
- High-throughput screening methods for the identification of EOPs.
We are looking forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Xuesheng Zhang
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- persistent organic pollutants
- emerging organic pollutants
- environmental behavior
- risks assessment
- non-targeted screening
- environmental media
- high-resolution mass spectrometry
- environmental processes
- eco-toxicological effect
- quantitative screening
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