Heavy Metal Pollution and Ecological Risk Assessment
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Pollution Prevention, Mitigation and Sustainability".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (7 November 2023) | Viewed by 6896
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are inviting submissions to a new Special Issue titled "Heavy Metal Pollution and Ecological Risk Assessment".
With the development of society and urbanization, heavy metal pollution has become one of the most important threats to human health, to animals, and to the environment. The toxicity of metals and fate of contamination are very important issues for determining the behavior and/or the impact of environmental pollution on aquatic organisms and organs. The aim of this Special Issue is to share important studies on toxic elements and their effect on human health and ecological systems and link these to sustainability development.
The journal is hereby inviting submissions related to the questions highlighted above. In particular, we welcome submissions on the following topics:
- Ecological risk assessment;
- Potential toxic pollution;
- Health risk assessment of soil, sediment, water, and air samples;
- Environmental risk assessment;
- Environmental impact assessment;
- Energy and environment;
- Greenhouse gases and the environment;
- Toxicity of metal on the environment;
- Hazard materials in the environment;
- Climate change and environmental pollution.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Prof. Dr. Omar Ali Al-Khashman
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- toxic elements
- Pollution load Index (PI)
- heavy metals
- Ecological Risk Index (ERI)
- human activities
- human health risk assessment
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