Multi-Media Environmental Pollution and Health Risks: Tracing, Effects, and Collaborative Governance
A special issue of Toxics (ISSN 2305-6304). This special issue belongs to the section "Toxicity Reduction and Environmental Remediation".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 21 November 2025 | Viewed by 146
Special Issue Editors
Interests: heavy metal; risk assessment; remediation; soil/sediment; environmental modeling and management
Interests: PPCPs; POPs; AOPs; QSAR; ECOSAR
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The accelerated industrialization and urbanization of modern society have escalated cross-media environmental pollution and its mitigation into pressing global challenges. Emerging contaminants – including heavy metals, persistent organic pollutants, and microplastics—exhibit complex transport mechanisms across aquatic systems, atmospheric compartments, terrestrial matrices, and sedimentary deposits, ultimately posing significant threats to both ecosystem integrity and public health. This Special Issue seeks to address these multifaceted challenges by compiling cutting-edge investigations into pollutant origin dynamics, environmental fate processes, ecotoxicological impacts, and human exposure pathways. By synthesizing interdisciplinary methodologies spanning environmental science, toxicology, and sustainable engineering, we aim to advance innovative pollution control paradigms and risk management frameworks to achieve health objectives worldwide.
This Special Issue focuses on the following research directions:
- Tracing, migration, and transformation of pollutants in environmental media;
- Ecological and environmental effects of pollutants and assessment of health risks;
- Pollution control technologies and policy optimization based on multi-media synergy.
We invite scholars in the fields of environmental science, environmental geography, environmental health, and environmental management to submit original research articles or review papers. Building upon these pillars, this initiative synergistically advances the following:
- Evidence-based decision support systems for SDG-aligned environmental management;
- Transdisciplinary methodologies bridging contaminant science with socioecological resilience;
- The implementation roadmaps for the "Beautiful China" initiative and global eco-civilization transition paradigms.
Dr. Dexin Liu
Dr. Jianbiao Peng
Dr. Lihong Ren
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- atmosphere
- water
- soil
- sediment
- pollutants
- source apportionment
- risk assessment
- human exposure
- pollution control
- environmental pollution
- health risks
- heavy metal
- environmental toxicology
- ecotoxicology
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