The Remediation and Re-qualification of Contaminated Sites
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 January 2020) | Viewed by 520
Special Issue Editors
Interests: treatment and remediation technologies for contaminated sites; fate and removal of emerging contaminants in environment; sustainable reactive material for the removal of pollutants from contaminated waters and soils
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Interests: groundwater pollution; long term contamination sources; transport processes in soil and subsoil; unsaturated zone; NAPL
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Special Issue Information
The remediation, restoration, and re-qualification of contaminated sites is a current and constantly evolving matter. It is one of the most important environmental issues in different countries where the economic value of a site is in question. The relevance of an environmental point of view comes also from the fact that the problem involves different components (generally soil and groundwaters) that are polluted by the most different contaminants, improving the difficulty level and the need for different technologies.
Different remediation approaches can be chosen, according to the conceptual model of the site, and the spatial extension of pollution, considering the health environmental risk analysis.
In this Special Issue, papers concerning cases faced and solved, new technologies with field tests, and basic research at a lab scale that enhance our understanding of pollution and decontamination processes are encouraged to be submitted.
Particular attention will be devoted to the presentation of intervention technologies that take care of the identification of the "best available techniques at sustainable costs" (BATNEEC).
Furthermore, studies aimed at re-qualification and reuse, to give back to the community of the site being used, are encouraged for submission.
Prof. Maria Boni Rosaria
Prof. Paolo Viotti
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Contaminated sites
- Contamination
- Environmental remediation
- Environmental restoration
- Remediation technologies
- Environmental risk assessment
- Restoration ecology
- BATNEEC
- Valorization contaminated sites
- Reuse
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