Environmental Toxicants and Hazardous Contaminants: Recent Advances in Technologies for Sustainable Development
Publication: Journal of Hazardous, Toxic, and Radioactive Waste
Volume 21, Issue 4
The special collection on Environmental Toxicants and Hazardous Contaminants: Recent Advances in Technologies for Sustainable Development is available in the ASCE Library at http://ascelibrary.org/page/jhtrbp/technologies_sustainable_development.
Environmental toxicants and hazardous contaminants are simply toxic substances in the environment and comprise a wide range of chemical or physical agents released into the environment that can contaminate the abiotic components of ecosystems, such as water, land, and air, thereby impacting the environment generally and producing adverse health effects in biotic communities of ecosystems, for example, animals, plants, and microbes. A wide variety of contaminants are present in the environment, and they can be broadly categorized as emerging contaminants, endocrine disruptors, carcinogens, mutagens, neurotoxins, and others, and they enter the environment from various point and nonpoint sources. The second part of the topic, recent advances in technologies for sustainable development, emphasizes on recent trends in technological advancements for operative control over the generation, treatment, recycling and reuse, recovery, and disposal of hazardous contaminants with the aim of protecting the environment from degradation and managing natural resources, thereby facilitating sustainable development. This special issue is devoted to recent researches pertaining to various prevalent or emerging contaminants in the environment and the corresponding remediation strategies by exploring current advanced technologies.
Topics of interest include the following:
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Notable toxicants (not limited to organic and inorganic chemicals, nutrients, pathogens, xenobiotics, pharmaceutical pollutants, or radionuclides);
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Generation sources, emissions, and characterizations of emerging contaminants;
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Toxicant monitoring, measurement, and risk assessment;
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Transport, transformation, and fate of pollutants in the environment;
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Impact of ecotoxicology and environmental health;
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Human exposure and the health effects of toxicants;
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Minimization, recycling, and beneficial reuse of waste materials;
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Waste and water treatment;
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Safe, clean, and sustainable treatment technologies (mechanical, biological, chemical, thermal, other);
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Environmental remediation, restoration, and protection; and
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Theoretical analysis, empirical studies, modeling, simulation, and parametric estimations.
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Received: Feb 3, 2017
Accepted: Feb 6, 2017
Published online: Mar 7, 2017
Discussion open until: Aug 7, 2017
Published in print: Oct 1, 2017
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