Soil Pollution: CRISIS AND CONTROL Volume III

Bys: Mishra, Rajesh Kumar, Mishra, Divyansh, Agarwal, Rekha

Soil Pollution: Crisis and Control-Volume III: Deep Dives, Landmark Case Studies, and Regulatory Developments provides an in-depth examination of the major contaminants responsible for persistent soil degradation and the landmark contaminated sites that have shaped modern environmental science and policy. The volume explores lead, cadmium, arsenic, mercury, chromium, nickel, copper, zinc, PFAS, persistent organic pollutants, and microplastics, emphasizing their sources, environmental persistence, mobility, bioavailability, ecological effects, human-health risks, and movement through soil-water-plant-food systems. It then examines eight landmark contamination cases-Minamata, Tar Creek, La Oroya, Kabwe, Fukushima, Ashio, Bunker Hill, and Sydney Tar Ponds-to demonstrate how industrial activity, mining, waste disposal, and technological accidents can create environmental legacies lasting generations. Across these examples, soil is presented not merely as a passive substrate but as a reservoir, transport medium, chemical reactor, and critical exposure interface. The volume emphasizes that contamination risk depends on chemical speciation, mobility, bioavailability, exposure pathways.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 663042218X
• ISBN13: 9786630422184
• Release Date: September 2026
• Publisher: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"