Potentially Toxic Elements in Water, Air, Soil, Stream Sediments, and Crops

Dear Colleagues,

Potentially toxic elements (PTE) are ubiquitous chemicals present in all environmental media for both natural and anthropogenic causes. Population growth, rapid urbanization, the excessive consumption of resources, the various productive activities, and the exponential increase in waste products have led in recent decades to PTE remobilization, introduction, dispersion, and accumulation in the environment. Therefore, PTE pollution is now widespread across the world and poses serious risks to human health.

The main purpose of this Special Issue is to provide the international scientific community with detailed knowledge of the distribution of PTE in water, air, soil, river sediments, and crops at regional and global scale. This Special Issue does not aim to cover the entire spectrum of this wide scientific area but rather present some interesting examples of research on this subject that is currently being carried out in several countries around the world.

Potential covered topics, using the most modern materials and methods, will include, among others:

• New geochemical methods for PTE data analysis, interpretation, and exploration;
• Pollution prevention for sustainable utilization of natural resources;
• GIS-based geochemical data analysis and interpretation for PTE exploration;
• Fractal/multifractal and geostatistical modeling of geochemical patterns;
• Health issues related to PTE distribution in different environmental media;
• Risk assessment for human health;
• Modeling of heavy metal accumulation in ecosystems and identification of its control factors using machine learning;
• Water treatment, soil cleanup, and gas purification as a comprehensive environmental management approach
• Emerging and eco-friendly approaches for management and remediation of PTE contaminated sites.

Prof. Dr. Domenico Cicchella
Dr. Xin Lin
Dr. Alexey Alekseenko
Guest Editors

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