Special Issue "Investigating the Urban Environment Using Chemical Analysis"

Dear Colleagues,

Our environment is under constant change through anthropogenic or natural pollutants. This Special Issue invites research papers that embrace any aspect of the chemical analysis of the urban (and adjoining) environments. I have defined the remit as quite broad to encapsulate a wealth of research across indoor or outdoor environments, for metals/metalloids or organic pollutants, and analysis by a variety of analytical techniques based on atomic spectrometry or chromatography. Of course, focus on the sample preparation of sample matrices (air, land, and water) prior to chemical analysis is also required, whether this is done on-site (remotely) or in a laboratory. Data interpretation is also a key aspect that ultimately leads to reporting of the information in a relevant way to the user.

I would also like to invite research papers that may be on the fringe of this traditional focus and use different types of chemical analyses to detect the urban (or adjoining) environment. For example, the growing area of research that uses spectroscopy to assess environmental impact using unmanned aerial vehicles in urban/semi-urban environments.

I look forward to reading your research.

Wish best wishes

Prof. Dr. John R. Dean
Guest Editor

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• Anthropogenic pollution
• Natural pollution
• Elemental pollutants
• Organic pollutants
• Chemical analysis
• Atomic spectrometry
• Chromatography
• Urban environment
• Semi-urban environment
• Sampling
• Sample preparation
• Data analysis
• Environmental Risk Assessment
• On-site detection
• Remote detection
• Air pollution
• Water pollution
• Land pollution
• Indoor pollution
• Outdoor pollution

Title： Use of tree phenotyping to characterise a historic woodland boundary in an ancient and semi-natural woodland  

Title： Health risk assessment of soils from an historic industrial site in North-East England