Soil Pollution

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Soil Pollution: From Monitoring to Remediation, Second Edition provides a comprehensive overview of the causes of soil pollution, distribution, transport and fate of pollutants in soil, 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 main causes of soil pollution are associated with human activities, resulting in the accumulation of contaminants in soils that may reach levels of concern. Soil pollutants include a wide variety of contaminants (organic and inorganic chemicals, nanoparticles, micro(nano)plastics), which can be derived of anthropogenic related activities, or naturally occurring in soil. Soil quality monitoring may be a hard task due to the lack of well stated monitoring variables and indicators. Soil Pollution, 2e expands and updates our current knowledge in this space 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 inf information on organic, inorganic and nanoparticle pollutants in soil and methodologies for their monitoring, and data reporting in order to gain adequate insights of pollution problems caused by these pollutants.

Contenu

1. Soil and Pollution: An Introduction to the Main Issues
   
   2. 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