Diffuse Contamination of the Environment – Quantifying Selected Issues and Ranking Across the Range

Dear Colleagues,

I am pleased to invite submissions on this special issue of Sustainability devoted to diffuse contamination of the environment. Diffuse contamination—which refers to discharges which cannot be easily traced back to a single source, are often insignificant in themselves, but nonetheless aggregate over larger scales—has become a central feature of the Anthropocene. Effects of diffuse contamination can range from insignificant to world-changing. At the severe end, it is responsible for some of our most pressing environmental problems; from air, water and soil pollution to climate change, and from the increase in antibiotic resistance to the apparently rapid decrease of insect biodiversity. In this special issue we invite papers that either:

• review and update our knowledge of a particular diffuse contamination issue; or
• present methods by which disparate diffuse contamination issues can be ranked and prioritised for public policy purposes.

Dr. Nicholas D. Kim
Guest Editor

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