Research on Pollutant Monitoring and Remediation Technologies for Contaminated Soil

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce a new Special Issue of the journal Sustainability, entitled “Research on Pollutant Monitoring and Remediation Technologies for Contaminated Soil”.

Soil hosts and sustains several diverse ecosystem services. Soil interacts, in permanent dialogue, with all the major environmental compartments—the atmosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere, and biosphere. In addition to its key role in the environment, its inherent heterogeneity and diverse chemical, mineralogical, and textural composition mean that we are faced with a very complex object of study that still has many unexplored features.

This Issue is a space in which we may increase our knowledge of soil, where science and technology come together in the search for effective and sustainable solutions to the rehabilitation and valorization of degraded and contaminated soils.

The knowledge and tools developed through research and innovation can contribute to improving soil quality and all its functions, including as a carbon and nitrogen sink, helping us reverse the effects of climate change, desertification, and land degradation.

This Special Issue aims to compile the best contributions from the scientific community, and, as such, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:

• Sustainability assessment tools for impacted soils and their rehabilitation;
• The contamination and remediation of rural soils, urban soils, coastal soils, and mountain soils;
• Advances in chemical and biological remediation;
• Advances in physical/thermal remediation;
• Combined soil remediation techniques;
• Soil monitoring and characterization;
• The modeling and detection of soil pollution—remote sensing surveys and enhanced data collection.

We look forward to receiving your contributions.

Dr. Maria Cristina C. Vila
Prof. Dr. Valentina Pidlisnyuk
Dr. Karim Suhail Al Souki
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. Sustainability 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 2400 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.

• soil
• remediation
• nature-based remediation solutions
• monitoring
• soil contamination
• soil pollution
• urban soils
• coastal soils
• soil vulnerability
• sustainability assessment