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Heavy Metal Exposure Risks for Children in the Soil-Dust-Plant Environment

This special issue belongs to the section “Environmental Sciences“.

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Dear Colleagues,

Anthropogenic activities, including urbanization, agriculture, and industrialization, have caused an increase in trace metals in soil, dust, plants, and water and resulted in various problems in human and ecosystem health. Potentially toxic metals (PTMs) may enter the human body through inhalation of dust, the direct ingestion of soil, and the consumption of food plants grown in metal-contaminated soil. Though the exposure risks of PTMs in a single environmental medium has been studied for decades, a systematic understanding of the exposure risks of heavy metals in soil, dust, and plants is needed to mitigate their negative impacts on human (especially children) and environmental health.

Dr. Yimin Wang
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • existence of PTMs in the soil, dust, and plant environment
  • risk assessment of PTMs for living organisms (especially for children) in the soil–dust–plant environment
  • theory, methods, and techniques for monitoring the exposure of PTMs for living organisms (especially for children) in the soil-dust-plant environment
  • the remediation and management tools of PTMs in the soil–dust–plant environment
  • efficient policies for children health improvement during the exposure of PTMs

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