Soil Contamination—Ecological Environment Risk Assessment and Remediation

Dear Colleagues,

Population growth and the resulting growing demand for food, industrial, energy, and transport systems, as well as their emissions and waste, are accelerating environmental degradation on a global scale.

Climate change and environmental pollution, particularly soil pollution, are one of humanity's major global challenges. Soil pollution limits the ability of soils to provide key ecosystem services, including food security, clean water availability, and soil biodiversity protection, and complicates the achievement of many of the ONZ Sustainable Development Goals. The main sources of pollution are industrial processes and mining, poor waste management, unsustainable agricultural practices, industrial accidents and disasters, and armed conflicts. Soils bear the greatest burden of environmental pollution; at the same time, they can filter, buffer, retain, and degrade pollutants. Soil pollution is a global problem with local and regional impacts and transboundary effects. There is an urgent need to analyze the current state of knowledge on the fate of main soil contaminants in the soil environment and assess the ecological threat (risk).

The goal of this Special Issue is to collect papers (original research articles and review papers) that present the latest knowledge on the global problems of soil contamination, innovative solutions for soil contamination and ecological risk assessment, and remediation and sustainable management of areas with different types and levels of contamination.

This Special Issue will welcome manuscripts that link the following themes:

• Soil pollution—characteristics of pollutants and their sources;
• Assessment of the degree of soil pollution;
• The fate of pollutants in the soil;
• Environmental, economic, and social effects of soil pollution;
• Ecological environment risk;
• Indicators and methods of environmental risk assessment;
• Soil remediation technologies;
• Management of contaminated soils;
• International and national legal regulations on soil pollution.

We look forward to receiving your original research articles and reviews.

Dr. Magdalena Myszura-Dymek
Prof. Dr. Grażyna Żukowska
Guest Editors

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