Environmental Behavior and Effects of Pollutants in Soil
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Chemoenvironment".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 August 2023) | Viewed by 4608
Special Issue Editor
2. Henan Engineering Research Centre for Control & Remediation of Soil Heavy Metal Pollution, Henan University, Kaifeng 475004, China
Interests: environmental behavior and effects of pollutants; mechanism of organic and inorganic combined pollution; bioavailability of pollutants in soils; ecological remediation of contaminated soils
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Soils are one of the most important reservoirs of pollutants. The varieties and concentrations of pollutants increased sharply in recent years. Moreover, pollutants in the soil could easily enter the human body via the food chain, thus posing a great threat to human health. There is a growing concern about soil pollution all over the world. Because of the inhomogeneous and multiphase characteristics of the soils, the behavior and effects of pollutants are complex in the soils. There are several important processes, i.e., adsorption/desorption, stabilization/mobilization, bio-degradation, bio-concentration, leaching, runoff, etc., influencing the bioavailability, effects, and fates of the pollutants in soils. These processes varied greatly with the type and characteristics of the soils, the concentration and characteristic of the pollutants, and the environmental factors, which increased the complexity of environmental behavior and the effects of pollutants in soils. Studies on the behavior and effects of pollutants in soils are important for pollution prevention, risk assessment, and remediation of polluted soils. However, the results from different studies might be different, even in contrast, for many kinds of pollutants. More and further studies should be carried out in this area. This Special Issue of the Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH) focuses on the environmental behavior and effects of pollutants in soils. Papers addressing the presentence, bioavailability, translocation, and transformation of pollutants in the soils, and their effects on the soil environment, plants, and animals are invited for this Special Issue, especially those dealing with the emerging pollutants using new technologies and approaches.
Dr. Xuhui Li
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- soil pollution
- environmental behavior
- ecological risk
- bioavailability
- toxicity
- translocation
- transformation
- emerging pollutants
- environmental fate of pollutants in soils
- influencing factors
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