Special
Issue "Phytoremediation Technologies for Soil and Water Resources
Conservation"
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue
belongs to the section "Sustainable Water Management".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2022.
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Special Issue Editors
Prof. Dr. Kokyo Oh | Guest Editor
Center for Environmental Science in Saitama, Kazo City, Saitama, Japan
Interests: environmental conservation; soil and water remediation;
phytoremediation; bioremediation; biodiversity; soil fertilization;
agricultural biomass waste; eco-farming; environmental agronomy
Prof. Dr. Jae Kwang (Jim) Park | Guest Editor
Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Wisconsin
Madison, Madison, WI, USA
Interests: biological wastewater treatment; biological nutrient removal;
drinking water treatment plant design and optimization; the fate of
contaminants in the environment; hazardous and industrial waste
treatment; waste reuse and recycling; river restoration; water quality
modeling
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Prof. Dr. Chiquan He | Guest Editor
School of Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Shanghai University,
Shanghai, China
Interests: wetland processes; bioremediation technologies; exotic
plants; biodiversity; soil and water conservation; eco-remediation of
water bodies
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Soil and water are fundamental natural resources that are indispensable
for living organisms, including human beings, to sustain their lives on
the earth. However, soil and water contamination has become a globally
common environmental problem that poses a significant risk to earth
ecology, human health, and the lives of organisms. There is a great need
for the development and practical application of effective technologies
for use in both the remediation and conservation of contaminated soil
and water resources.
Phytoremediation is an umbrella term for a set of technologies that
utilize natural plants and their associated microorganisms for the
treatment of contaminated or degraded environmental matrices without
damage to the function of natural resources. It has a great potential
and has gained increasing attention as a natural, low-cost and
eco-friendly technology in the remediation and conservation of soil and
water resources. So far, phytoremediation has largely focused on the
removal or degradation of hazardous contaminants from soil and
groundwater. In recent years, as a plant-based technology, the
applications of phytoremediation have expanded to resource management,
wastewater treatment, the water purification of rivers and lakes,
biomass and bioenergy crop production, biodiversity protection and other
important environmental issues.
The aims of this Special Issue are to gather worldwide novel research in
the field of phytoremediation related to soil and water resources and to
provide future research directions.
The Special Issue will cover, but will not be limited to, the following
potential research topics:
The phytoremediation of soil and water with the contamination of harmful
metals and/or organic compounds;
Phytotechnology for the management of soil and water resources;
Plant-based systems for the treatment of wastewater and water bodies of
rivers, lakes, streams and ponds;
Biomass utilization of phytoremediator plants;
Cost and income evaluation of phytoremediation;
The assessment of ecological function of phytoremediation on
biodiversity, global warming, carbon storage and other important
environmental issues.
More
information could be found with link:
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sustainability/special_issues/phytoremediation_soil_water