Risk Assessment of Pollutants in Aquatic Environment
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Water Quality and Contamination".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 December 2022) | Viewed by 3981
Special Issue Editors
Interests: sustainable water management; alternative water resources technologies; environmental systems analysis; water resources and quality forecasting
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
You are invited to submit to the upcoming Special Issue “Risk Assessment of Pollutants in Aquatic Environments”.
Many chemicals are used in, and directly or indirectly released from, processes and products that are essential for human health, nutrition, and wellbeing. These include substances such as pharmaceuticals, personal care products, radionuclides, macronutrients such as phosphorus and nitrogen, trace elements, particulates, and other organic and inorganic compounds. However, these chemicals and their breakdown products have hazardous properties that can pose a risk to the aquatic environment, ecosystem services, and human health. Risk assessments, based on fundamental knowledge of transport, fate, exposure and effects, are essential for safe chemical use and release.
This upcoming Special Issue of Water aims to collect insightful reviews and research articles on integrated long-term monitoring, residue analysis, laboratory and field experimentation, and multiscale modelling of chemicals in the environment. Focussing on priority and newly emerging pollutants, studies on the development of new approaches and tools for hazard screening, risk assessment, and source apportionment for emergent technologies are particularly welcome. So are those on the exploration of how chemical risks vary with likely future climate and demographic change, increasing urbanisation and a move towards low carbon economies. It is hoped that the new knowledge generated from this Special Issue translates through to policies and mitigation strategies that deliver safe management of chemicals, now and in the future.
Dr. Mawuli Dzakpasu
Dr. Siobhan Jordan
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.
Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Water is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.
Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.
Keywords
- environmental pollutants
- environmental dynamics
- emerging technology
- hazard screening
- environmental risk
- predictive modelling
- environmental standards and regulations
- risk analysis
- ecological safety
