Sustainable Groundwater Remediation and Management
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Water Management".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 December 2023) | Viewed by 4434
Special Issue Editor
Interests: groundwater; contamination; environmental engineering; modeling; geochemistry
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The sustainability of groundwater remediation is a complex issue which covers three aspects: environmental impacts, economic viability, and social impacts. The environmental aspects of sustainability in remediation focus on maximizing the net environmental benefit of cleanup preserving remedy effectiveness and protecting human health and the environment.
“In situ” remediation techniques are, almost, innovative sustainable technologies widely accepted as an alternative to the “pump and treat” and other classical limited sustainable groundwater treatment technologies. The main objectives of this Special Issue are to evaluate the application and effectiveness of sustainable groundwater treatment technologies, especially air sparging, bioremediation, biostimulation, monitored natural attenuation (MNA), permeable reactive barriers (PRBs), reactive zones, in situ chemical oxidation (ISCO), wetlands, and passive “in situ” mine water treatment systems.
In addition, groundwater transport models and management modeling used for decision-making in remediation case studies are of great interest.
In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but not limited to) the following: hydrogeology, contaminant hydrology, environmental engineering, groundwater modelling, management modelling, environmental fluid mechanics, geochemistry, and sustainable remediation.
I look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Andrés Navarro
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- sustainable remediation
- groundwater treatment
- contamination
- modeling
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