About this Research Topic
This special issue aims at assembling research articles dealing with innovative investigations and modern approaches on specific and crucial aspects related to new scientific and technological knowledge and practices focused on recovery/mitigation/remediation of highly polluted sites (soils, sediments, waters, food, etc.). Experiences of citizen science and social innovation in communities where environmental pollution represents a critical issue will be an essential component of this collection.
This collection of scientific papers offers a unique opportunity to create a robust framework of scientific, technological, and socio-economic knowledge by challenging the mainstream of environmental recovery and health safety. This collection follows a previous successful experience in ‘Environment and health’ https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/feart.2020.598611/full.
We seek to publish papers focused on:
a) physico-chemical processes, sources, and pathways of traditional and emerging contaminants in different environmental compartments and at the air-water-soil-sediment interfaces;
b) mechanisms of transfer of contaminants from the environment to humans by food, drinking, breathing;
c) effects of exposure of population to pollutants in areas with the relevant impact of contaminants (epidemiological studies);
d) multi-dimensional risk analysis and assessment in areas affected by critical anthropogenic impact;
e) integrated approaches to mitigation and/remediation of contaminated soils, sediments, waters in a context of climate changes;
f) ecosystem recovery in terrestrial and coastal systems;
g) governance and risk assessment: experiences of science to policy approaches
This collection of scientific papers offers a unique opportunity to create a robust framework of scientific, technological, and socio-economic knowledge by challenging the mainstream of environmental recovery and health safety. This collection follows a previous successful experience in ‘Environment and health’ https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/feart.2020.598611/full.
We seek to publish papers focused on:
a) physico-chemical processes, sources, and pathways of traditional and emerging contaminants in different environmental compartments and at the air-water-soil-sediment interfaces;
b) mechanisms of transfer of contaminants from the environment to humans by food, drinking, breathing;
c) effects of exposure of population to pollutants in areas with the relevant impact of contaminants (epidemiological studies);
d) multi-dimensional risk analysis and assessment in areas affected by critical anthropogenic impact;
e) integrated approaches to mitigation and/remediation of contaminated soils, sediments, waters in a context of climate changes;
f) ecosystem recovery in terrestrial and coastal systems;
g) governance and risk assessment: experiences of science to policy approaches
Keywords: Environment, Human Health Safety, Ecosystem Health, Pollution, Remediation technology, Citizen science and Social innovation
Important Note: All contributions to this Research Topic must be within the scope of the section and journal to which they are submitted, as defined in their mission statements. Frontiers reserves the right to guide an out-of-scope manuscript to a more suitable section or journal at any stage of peer review.
