Twenty Years of Research and Development on Soil Pollution and Remediation in China

This book reviews the progresses and achievements made in the past 20 years of research on soil pollution and remediation in China, and presents 50 review and research articles fromall over China, including Hong Kong and Taiwan. The authors include scientists,engineers, entrepreneurs and managers from 26 universities, 18 institutes, 4 leading enterprisesand 2 government environmental protection departments. The contents cover fundamentalresearch on soil pollution and remediation, technical development, project demonstration,policy and governance. The polluted soil/site types include farmland, industrial sites, mining areas and oilfields, with heavy metals (cadmium, arsenic, copper, chromium, mercury, lead,zinc, nickel, etc.), organic pollutants (PAHs, PCBs, organochlorine pesticides, phthalate esters,halogenated hydrocarbons, etc.), and metal-organic mixed pollutants. The remediationtechniques mainly include physical and chemical remediation (thermal desorption, soil vaporextraction,in situadvanced chemical oxidation, solidification and stabilization), phytoremediation (phytostabilization, phytoextraction by hyperaccumulators, phyto-prevention by low accumulation plants),bioremediation (microbial adsorption and immobilization, microbial degradation, microbe-enhancedphytoremediation), and combined remediation merging multiple technologies. The governanceand policy section mainly explores laws and regulations, criteria and standards, financialguarantees and the industrial market for soil environment and pollution prevention.