Soil Pollution: From Monitoring to Remediation, Second Edition provides a comprehensive overview of the causes of soil pollution, distribution, transport, and fate of pollutants and transformation of pollutants in soil and metabolite accumulation. Soil pollution has increased over the last decades and may pose a risk for human and ecological health. The book expands and updates on current knowledge with an increased focus on PFAs and micronanplastics. The new edition also includes a new chapter on the One Health initiative.
In this book, researchers and students in soil science will find appropriate and comprehensive information on organic, inorganic, and nanoparticle pollutants in soil, methodologies for their monitoring, and data reporting processes in order to gain adequate insights of pollution problems caused by these pollutants.
In this book, researchers and students in soil science will find appropriate and comprehensive information on organic, inorganic, and nanoparticle pollutants in soil, methodologies for their monitoring, and data reporting processes in order to gain adequate insights of pollution problems caused by these pollutants.
Table of Contents
1. Soil and Pollution: An Introduction to the Main Issues2. Distribution, Transport and Fate of Pollutants
3. Changes in Soil Ecosystem Structure and Functions due to Soil Contamination
4. Pollutants Transformation and Metabolite Accumulation in Soils
5. Organic Pollutants in Soils Organic (carbon based) pollutants include persistent organic pollutants, pesticides, PFAS, and those that were once released into air or water will end up soils
6. Inorganic Pollutants in Soils Waste disposal practices have led to significant build up in soils of a wide range of inorganic pollutants such as: arsenic, cadmium, chromium, copper, mercury, lead, selenium, and zinc
7. Nanomaterials as Soil Pollutants Nanoparticles are used for soil remediation and released unintentionally through various other pathways to soil
8. Micro(nano)plastics as Soil Pollutants
9. Ecotoxicological Effects and Risk Assessment of Pollutants
10. Human Health Risks and Soil Pollution
11. One Health and Soil Pollution
12. Strategies for Soil Protection and Remediation