Monitoring, Risk Assessment and Early Warning of Farmland Pollution

Dear Colleagues,

Excessive pollutants in farmland damage the ecological environment of the soil itself and threaten the quality and safety of agricultural products and human health through the absorption of the crops and the food chain destined for the human body. Consequently, excessive pollutants greatly affect the sustainable development of agriculture and economic society. For this reason, broad concerns have been raised regarding pollution identification, localization, prevention, and treatment, i.e., whether pollutants are present, where they are, and how to prevent and control them. In the literature, monitoring, assessment, and early warnings of pollution in farmland soil are the key means to understand the degree of pollution, pollution characteristics, and evolution law, as well as the premise and basis of targeted risk prevention and control.

The purpose of this Special Issue is to promote research on the theories and technical methods of monitoring, assessing, and early warning of pollution in farmland soil by collecting papers that will explore a more comprehensive and in-depth understanding of the connotation of these topics from different perspectives, motivate the creation of relevant technologies and methods, and support the practical work of targeted risk prevention and control in advance.

We encourage submissions from scholars, practitioners, and policymakers addressing the topics of the implications, objectives, techniques, and methods of monitoring, assessing, and early warning of pollution in farmland soil in order to lay the foundation for targeted risk prevention and control and to achieve agricultural development sustainability. This Special Issue also welcomes contributions from economic, social, and other relevant fields, including research on regulatory and work mechanism issues connected to the topic. Both theoretical and empirical papers are welcomed.

In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but not limited to) the following:

1. Monitoring and detection of pollutants in farmland.
2. Risk assessment of farmland pollution.
3. Early warning of farmland pollution.

We look forward to receiving your contributions.

Prof. Dr. Yi An
Prof. Dr. Bo Wu
Dr. Lili Huo
Guest Editors

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