Sustainability of Heavy Metal Pollution Control: Risk Assessment and Ecological Remediation
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 (25 February 2023) | Viewed by 2403
Special Issue Editors
Interests: ecological remediation; heavy metal pollution; microbial ecology; risk assessment
Interests: ecological remediation; heavy metals; pollution migration
Interests: biogeochemical cycling; microbial ecology; river damming; watershed management
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Contamination of heavy metals within pedosphere, hydrosphere and atmosphere is of great concern for ecological and public health. Awareness of this issue rose in the early nineteen-eighties, and scientists and environmentalists have conducted various studies, including pollution fates, risk assessment, control and remediation, to seek sustainable development.
Risk Assessment: Conventional risk assessment are mostly concerned with the total concentrations of heavy metals. However, such evaluations tend to underestimate the ecological impacts of pollutants. Fortunately, researches have started to work on the bio-accessibility, bio-availability and bio-activity of heavy metal pollution and their impacts on various organisms, including animals, plants, microbes and human beings.
Ecological Remediation: Excessive economic costs and negative environmental influences associated with conventional remediation made it virtually impossible to proceed fast and effectively with the clean up of heavy metal pollution. Therefore, to meet sustainable development principles, ecological remediation methods, such as phytoremediation, microbe-metal interaction, biomass stabilization (for example, biochars) and so on, are required.
This Special Issue focuses on, but is not limited to: i) evaluating the ecological risk of heavy metal pollutants in pedosphere, hydrosphere and atmosphere environments; and ii) developing the ecological remediation technology to control contaminated environments. Papers, reviews, and case reports are welcome contribute to this Issue. Papers dealing with technical and managerial approaches to addressing the above Issue are also welcome.
Dr. Qiusheng Yuan
Dr. Nan Geng
Dr. Xun Wang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- heavy metals
- risk assessment
- ecological remediation
- bio-accessibility/bio-availability/bio-activity
- organisms
- phytoremediation
- microbe-metal interaction
- biomass materials
