Removal of Heavy Metals Contamination to Enhance the Sustainable Environment
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Pollution Prevention, Mitigation and Sustainability".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 10 December 2025 | Viewed by 2268
Special Issue Editors
Interests: heavy metal uptake, translocation and accumulation in soil-plant system; ecological risk assessment and remediation of contaminated agricultural soils; sessment and remediation of contaminated agricultural soils
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Dear Colleagues,
Unlike organic contaminants, most heavy metals do not undergo microbial or chemical degradation and persists for a long time. After their introduction into various environmental media, they may cause potential harm to human health through food-chain. Therefore, with great public awareness of the implications of contaminated environments by metals on human and animal health, there has been increasing interest in the occurrence and characteristics of heavy metals, and the development of technologies to remove heavy metals from contaminated media to enhance the sustainable environment.
Being aware of the importance of sustainable environment, the journal intended to launch a special issue with the theme of Removal of Heavy Metals Contamination to Enhance the Sustainable Environment. Following scientific issues will be focused:
1) Source, processes, and risk assessment of heavy metals in environment;
2) Behavior, fate, bioavailability, and effects of heavy metals in environment;
3) Removal, mitigation and control measures of heavy metals in contaminated environments.
Here, this Special Issue titled “Removal of Heavy Metals Contamination to Enhance the Sustainable Environment” of the Sustainability invites the submission of papers on the above areas. In this special issue, we will gather leading experts from various disciplines to share their recent knowledge on theoretical foundations and practical removal strategies for cleaning up heavy metals from contaminated environments, ultimately in order to improve the quality of our ambient environment, and to save our earth.
Dr. Meng Wang
Dr. Shanshan Li
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- cadmium
- arsenic
- lead
- chromium
- mercury
- ecotoxicology
- biogeochemistry
- removal
- remediation
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