Environmental Pollution and Bioremediation Technology
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Applied Biosciences and Bioengineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 July 2024) | Viewed by 8030
Special Issue Editors
Interests: biological quality of the soil; edaphic arthropods biodiversity; bioremediation; vermiremediation; soil bioindicators; terrestrial ecotoxicity; community analysis
Interests: hydrogeology; contaminant hydrogeology; remediation techniques; emerging contaminants; bioremediation; vermiremediation
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Interests: groundwater pollutants; contaminant migration; remediation techniques; emerging contaminants; hydrogeology; bioremediation; enhanced microbial remediation
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Over the last few decades, the growth of urbanization and industrialization has been accompanied by a constant and ever-increasing pressure on the environment; these activities have either directly or indirectly caused the release of countless chemical compounds into the environment, including hydrocarbons, chlorinated solvents, heavy metals, perfluorinated compounds, drugs, and cosmetic products. Due to the damage that these pollutants exert both on humans and on other living things and their ecosystems, environmental pollution is one of the most severe public health problems.
The high cost of physico-chemical techniques and the need to adopt more environmentally sustainable strategies have increased the interest in bioremediation, an eco-friendly approach to remediate polluted sites. Among bioremediation techniques, significant attention has been paid to microbial communities; however, other tools for pollution management could include invertebrates (e.g., earthworms), fungi, and plants. The choice of bioremediation techniques depends on several factors, including, but not limited to, cost, site characteristics, and the type and concentration of pollutants; the specific applications of each technique impart certain advantages and disadvantages.
Therefore, this Special Issue will present new ideas and experimental results in the fields of bioremediation and environmental monitoring that address the performance and integration of different bioremediation techniques in order to determine the most appropriate and operative one (or a combination) to treat polluted sites successfully with a focus on the propagation and migration of contaminants in the environment.
Dr. Sara Remelli
Prof. Dr. Fulvio Celico
Dr. Pietro Rizzo
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- soil pollution
- water pollution
- emerging contaminants
- zooremediation
- phytoremediation
- mycoremediation
- microbial degradation
- soil biota consortia
- rhizodegradation
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