Heavy Metal Contamination in Soil and Health Risks
A special issue of Toxics (ISSN 2305-6304). This special issue belongs to the section "Metals and Radioactive Substances".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 October 2022) | Viewed by 35439
Special Issue Editors
Interests: heavy metals in soils; soil amendment; mining environment; rice and paddy soils; soil-plant relationship
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
There are various sources of heavy metals in soils, including mining, industrial activities, waste disposal sites, even geological materials. Thus, heavy metal contaminated soil nowadays is receiving the utmost concern from researchers due to its undesirable effects and health risk in the environmental systems. Owing to the low degradability, chemical complexity, and toxicity of the metals, numerous studies have been undertaken, such as environmental surveys, physicochemical and biological analyses, and risk assessments. In addition, much effort has been made to solve the environmental problems of heavy metal contaminated soils. Among them, soil washing, stabilization/solidification, electro-kinetic, and soil amendment technologies were adapted to remove the metals in soils. Furthermore, human and ecological risk assessment of the metals in soils was also undertaken.
Therefore, this Special Issue will focus on highlighting timely research studies addressing the leading techniques related to survey, analysis, evaluation, and remediation of the metals in soils. Authors are invited and welcome to submit original research papers, reviews, and short communications.
Topics may include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Identify the sources of heavy metals in soils;
- Establish the analysis of heavy metals in soils;
- Evaluate the health risk assessment derived from heavy metal contaminated soils;
- Apply the remediation techniques of heavy metals in soils;
- Conduct all studies related to heavy metals in soils and health risk issues.
Prof. Dr. Myung Chae Jung
Dr. Zahra Derakhshan-Nejad
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- investigation on heavy metals in soils
- sources of heavy metals in soils
- human and ecological risk assessment from contaminated soils
- heavy metal remediation technology
- soil, plant, and microbial community
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