Water Pollution under Climate Change in Coastal Areas
A special issue of Journal of Marine Science and Engineering (ISSN 2077-1312). This special issue belongs to the section "Marine Environmental Science".
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Dear Colleagues,
Rapid urbanisation in coastal areas, without proper environmental protection measures, has increased the discharge of wastewater to marine environments and caused worldwide water pollution and ecosystem degradation in coastal areas. Traditionally, researchers have focused on nutrients and heavy metals in coastal environments. In recent decades, however, emerging pollutants, including pharmaceuticals and personal care products, hormones, food additives, plasticisers, laundry detergents, disinfectants, surfactants, pesticides, wood preservatives, flame retardants, and other organic compounds, have received increasing attention by the public and scholars. Climate change, mainly due to the increasing emission of anthropogenic greenhouse gases, has exacerbated water pollution. The published studies have focused on the impact of climate change on eutrophication and algal blooms, while impacts of climate change on other water pollutants are still largely unknown. Over the last several years, a number of countries, including the USA, UK, and China, have pledged carbon neutrality by 2050 or 2060 to mitigate global climate change. Measures to cut carbon emissions can also reduce other pollutants from fossil fuels, with the potential to reduce water pollution. However, our understanding of the influence of carbon neutrality on water pollution is almost zero.
The goals of this Special Issue are to provide a current overview of water pollution under climate change in coastal environments. This Special Issue invites research and reviews dedicated to all aspects of water pollution and climate change in marine environment. Papers on field studies may focus on but are not limited to eutrophication, algal bloom, seawater acidification, carbon cycle (carbon neutrality), and emerging pollutants in marine environment. Articles on modelling may include but are not limited to developing new models or applying current models to research water pollution and climate change in marine environment. Results from experiments, time-series and space-for-time analysis, meta-analyses, and modelling are all welcome.
Dr. Hong Yang
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Water pollution
- Eutrophication
- Emerging pollutants
- Carbon cycle
- Carbon neutrality
- Climate change
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