Special Issue "Potentially Toxic Elements Pollution in Urban and Suburban Environments"
A special issue of Toxics (ISSN 2305-6304). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2021.
Special Issue Editor
Interests: environmental geochemistry; soil pollution; water pollution; environmental analysis and monitoring
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Pollution by potentially toxic elements (PTEs) is becoming a serious and widespread issue in all environmental matrices because of accelerated population growth rate, rapid industrialization and urbanization and other changes, which have occurred in most parts of the world in the last few decades. The increasingly worrying concern about the presence of PTEs in the environment has attracted considerable attention due to their potential impacts on ecosystem functioning and on public health because of their persistence and biotoxicity. PTEs can in fact be transferred into the human body as a consequence of dermal contact, inhalation and ingestion through the food chain and drinking water. Unfortunately, PTEs are ubiquitous in all environmental compartments, and they have been widely detected worldwide. In this context, environmental geochemistry and related subjects are elected matters to investigate, characterise and reveal the patterns of inorganic elements together with geostatistical computations that are used to identify source patterns of different pollutants related to underlying geological features and/or anthropogenic activities.
The present Special Issue would like to collect and compare case studies worldwide on behaviour, transport, fate and ecotoxicological state of PTEs in environmental matrices in both urban and suburban settings.
The topics of interest, on which authors are invited and welcome to submit original research papers, reviews and short communications, include but are not limited to the following keywords: potentially toxic elements (PTEs); environmental geochemistry; soil, sediment, water, air pollution; geogenic and anthropogenic pollutant input; bioavailability; PTEs mapping; spatial data analysis.
I look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Ilaria Guagliardi
Guest Editor
Keywords
- potentially toxic elements (PTEs)
- environmental geochemistry
- soil, sediment, water, air pollution
- geogenic and anthropogenic pollutant input
- bioavailability
- PTE mapping
- spatial data analysis
Planned Papers
The below list represents only planned manuscripts. Some of these manuscripts have not been received by the Editorial Office yet. Papers submitted to MDPI journals are subject to peer-review.
Title: Potentially toxic elements in urban soils from public-access areas in the rapidly growing megacity of Lagos, Nigeria: distribution and human health risk assessment
Authors: Abimbola O Famuyiwa; Christine M Davidson; Piotr S Gromski; Sesugh Ande; Alison Nordon
Affiliation: 1. Department of Pure and Applied Chemistry, University of Strathclyde, 295 Cathedral Street, Glasgow G1 1XL UK
2. Aderonke O Oyeyiola, Department of Chemistry, University of Lagos, Akoka-Yaba, Lagos, Nigeria
Abstract: Many cities in the developing world are experiencing rapid and largely unregulated urbanisation and industrialisation. This paper discusses the distribution of the potentially toxic elements (PTE) Cr, Cu, Fe, Mn, Ni, Pb and Zn in urban soils collected from public-access spaces in the City of Lagos, Nigeria. Principal component and cluster analysis identified two major PTE groupings, one (Cu-Pb-Zn) likely to be associated with anthropogenic sources and the other (Cr-Fe-Mn-Ni) with lithogenic factors. Wealthier socio-economic areas such as Victoria Island were characterised by lower levels of PTE than low-income areas such as Makoko