Sustainable Management of Heavy Metals
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Sustainability and Applications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2020) | Viewed by 67260
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Interests: soil-water-plant system; waste management and recycling
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Dear Colleagues,
Heavy metals, in general trace elements, are one of the major environmental problems. Nowadays, an increasing environmental and global public health concern related with environmental contamination by heavy metals are well known. Moreover, human exposure has risen dramatically because of an exponential increase of their use in several activities such as agricultural, industrial, technological and urban applications. They are presented in soils, water and atmosphere and they are a serious risk for the food chain.
United Nations through FAO and the European Union are concerned about the problem of heavy metal contamination and its impact on the food chain. Heavy metals, soil and water pollution, are in the target of the food security.
The main sources that heavy metals are produced include industrial, geogenic, agricultural, mining, wastewaters, domestic effluents, pharmaceutical and atmospheric causes. Heavy metals bioavailability is influenced by physical, chemical and biological factors. Temperature, adsorption and sequestration are consider as physical while complexation kinetics, leachability and mobility, lipid solubility and octanol/water partition coefficients are related with chemical factors. Biological factors such as species characteristics, trophic interactions, and biochemical/physiological adaptation, also play an important role.
Heavy metals are related also with health as are entering into our body through food chain. Also moreover illegal disposal of waste such as affected sewage sludge with heavy metals or household waste may affect soils and ground waters which may entering into human body through food chain and or breath or from humans skin
The studies of this special issue are expected to address:
- The source and distribution of heavy metals in the environment (soil, water, air, living organisms, waste).
- The mapping of areas at a global and regional scale where pollution is a high risk.
- The consequences on the environment and food security of heavy metals.
- The relation of trace elements with zero waste strategy and circular economy.
- The sustainable strategies for the remediation of heavy metal pollution.
- The impact of metals in the environmental policy
- Methods to remove and or uptake heavy metals
Prof. Jose Navarro-Pedreño
Prof. Antonis A. Zorpas
Prof. I. Gómez Lucas
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Distribution
- environmental health
- food security
- metal extractions
- metals leachability
- pollution
- remediation
- strategies on metal science
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