Recent Advances in Environmental Geochemistry

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce a new Special Issue entitled “Recent Advances in Environmental Geochemistry” in the Sustainability journal.

The environment in the 21st Century underpins our very existence. Forests, rivers, oceans, and soils provide the food we eat, the air we breathe, and the water we use to irrigate our fields. Preserving clean air, clean water, and fertile soil is, therefore, a very essential part of the environmental principle. Environmental sustainability is a necessity for ecological balance in the natural environment of our planet and for the protection of all natural resources, to ensure the well-being of present and future generations.

Many of the grand challenges of sustainability are closely linked to environmental geochemistry. The contribution of environmental geochemistry is to illuminate and unravel a wide range of societal and economic problems, such as the sustainable use of natural resources, the assessment of environmental problems in anthropogenic environments, and the sustainable remediation of brutally contaminated land. Thus, environmental geochemistry is an excellent tool for understanding the nature of natural resources, identifying the causes of environmental problems, and elucidating the culprits of polluted soils.

The special issue “Recent Advances in Environmental Geochemistry” in the journal Sustainability aims to highlight the latest trends in environmental geochemical research (using advanced analytical methods and ranging from macro to nano dimensions), especially from a sustainability perspective. This issue will also significantly advance/encourage the application of environmental geochemistry to sustainability science and problems.

Within this framework, we welcome original research and reviews in the form of both specialized and interdisciplinary manuscripts on:

• the biogeochemical cycling of chemical elements,
• the distribution and translocation of inorganic pollutants in the environment,
• the distribution and translocation of organic pollutants in the environment,
• the distribution of pollutants due to industrial, agricultural, and urbanization activities,
• environmental sustainability assessment.

Prof. Dr. Nastja Rogan Šmuc
Prof. Dr. Željka Fiket
Dr. Martin Gaberšek
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

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