Sustainable Risk Assessment and Remediation of Soil Pollution

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue focuses on cutting-edge research on the management and sustainable development of agricultural soil pollution, including the contamination mechanisms, ecological effects and synergistic management strategies of heavy metals (cadmium, lead, arsenic, etc.) and emerging pollutants (microplastics, antibiotics, perfluorinated compounds, etc.) in agricultural soil. We are committed to promoting multidisciplinary cross-disciplinary research, exploring the migration and transformation patterns of pollutants in soil–crop systems, source–sink relationships and their long-term impacts on the safety of the food chain, and encouraging the innovation of health risk assessment methods based on bioavailability and exposure scenarios.

The journal gives priority to manuscripts on the following research areas:

• Environmental fate of contaminants in agricultural soils;
• Research on pollutant soil–plant interface processes and ecotoxicological effects;
• Plant–microbe synergistic remediation of agricultural polluted soil;
• Novel functional materials (e.g., biochar, nanomaterials) and green remediation technologies.

Dr. Wentao Yang
Prof. Dr. Xiao Deng
Guest Editors

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