Environmental Behavior and Risks of Organic Pollutants
A special issue of Toxics (ISSN 2305-6304).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 August 2025 | Viewed by 116
Special Issue Editors
Interests: environmental analysis; environmental toxicity; organic pollutants; emerging pollutants; risk assessment; metabolomics; lipidomics
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Interests: emerging pollutants; environmental behavior; exposure quantification; modeling; ecological and human health
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In recent decades, the increasing environmental pollution, which is a result of accelerated urbanization and industrialization, has attracted the worldwide attention because of its adverse effects on human health. Epidemiological studies suggest that the diseases (e.g., respiratory, cardiovascular, and cancers) are closely related to the environmental pollution. The World Health Organization (WHO) reported that the polluted environments are responsible for killing 1.7 million children under 5 years of age every year. To date, there have been many researches investigating the occurrence of pollutants in environmental media (e.g., air, water, and soil) and their toxicity to organisms. However, the environmental problems are changing with the development of human society; in particular, emerging pollutants have been increasingly reported in recent years, and their threats to human health and the ecological environment are not well known. Therefore, more evidence is needed to further understand the environmental behavior and risks of environmental pollutants (e.g., emerging pollutants and persistent organic pollutants).
This Special Issue will explore a variety of topics related to the environmental behavior and risks of organic pollutants in water and soil, including environmental fate, toxicological effects, mechanisms of toxicity, risk assessment, and so on.
Dr. Qinghua Zhou
Dr. Yuanchen Chen
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- organic pollutants
- emerging pollutants
- environmental fate
- environmental toxicity
- risk assessment
- water
- soil
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