Sustainable Management and Remediation of Contaminated Sites
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Pollution Prevention, Mitigation and Sustainability".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2023) | Viewed by 21682
Special Issue Editor
Interests: contaminated sites; risk assessment; innovative techniques for monitoring soil contamination; remediation of contaminated sites; modeling of contaminant fate and transport in the subsurface
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Soil is an essential and limited resource and represents the main foundation of life for humans, animals, and plants. Over the last few decades, human activities (e.g., industrial activities, mining, agricultural chemicals or improper disposal of wastes) have progressively contaminated soil. Soil contamination is a worldwide problem with direct impacts on human health and the environment. Significant advances have been achieved in monitoring, assessing, and remediating contaminated soils. In this context, this issue is focused on innovative sustainable approaches for the assessment and remediation of contaminated soils. Case studies are welcome when authors indicate the wider applications of their insights or techniques. Numerical and experimental studies aimed at understanding the fate and transport of contaminats are also welcome.
Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Experimental and computational investigations on the contaminant fate and transport in the subsurface (e.g., volatilization, vapor intrusion, leaching to groundwater, natural attenuation, natural source zone depletion);
- Development or application of sustainable tools for monitoring the extent of soil contamination in the subsurface (e.g., high-resolution characterization, high-frequency analysis, passive sampling);
- Advances in health and environmental risk assessment (e.g., bioavailability, bioaccessibility, exposure models);
- Sustainable techniques for the in situ remediation of contaminated sites (e.g., biological, physical, chemical, or nature-based solutions).
In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome.
I look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Iason Verginelli
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- contaminated sites
- innovative monitoring techniques
- risk assessment
- mathematical modeling
- sustainable remediation of contaminated sites
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