Potentially Toxic Elements Pollution in Urban and Suburban Environments / / Ilaria Guagliardi, editor.

• TeilnehmendeR: Guagliardi, Ilaria,
• Place / Publishing House: [Place of publication not identified] : : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute,, 2023.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (220 pages)

The importance of studying pollution via potentially toxic elements (PTEs) is becoming a key challenge considering the increasing concern about the presence of PTEs in the environment and their potential impacts on ecosystem functioning and public health due to their persistence and biotoxicity. Regional geochemical research, together with geostatistical computations which are used to identify source patterns of different pollutants related to the underlying geological features and/or anthropogenic activities, is the best approach for characterizing this pollution issue. The collection of research in this Special Issue, "Potentially Toxic Element Pollution in Urban and Suburban Environments", represents the need of the scientific community to characterize the behavior, transport, fate, and ecotoxicological state of PTEs in environmental matrices in both urban and suburban settings. All the case studies collected are of relevant significance due to their quality, both in the methodologies and the achieved results, and interest to different environmental studies, from China to South Africa to Europe. My role as Guest Editor of this Special Issue was exciting and stimulating. I would like to express my appreciation to all the authors for submitting their original contributions and to the reviewers for their essential role in the process. I would like to thank the editors of Toxics and, in particular, Selena Li for her precious and tireless support.

Table of Contents

About the Editor vii -- Editorial for the Special Issue "Potentially Toxic Elements Pollution in Urban and Suburban Environments" 1 -- Assessment of the Railroad Transport Impact on Physical and Chemical Soil Properties: The Case Study from Zdunska Wola Karsznice Railway Junction, Central Poland 7 Vulnerability to Nitrate Occurrence in the Spring Waters of the Sila Massif (Calabria, Southern Italy) 21 -- Potentially Toxic Elements in Urban Soils from Public-Access Areas in the Rapidly Growing Megacity of Lagos, Nigeria 39 -- Discharge Patterns of Potentially Harmful Elements (PHEs) from Coking Plants and Its Relationship with Soil PHE Contents in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Region, China 55 -- Influence of Urban Informal Settlements on Trace Element Accumulation in Road Dust and Their Possible Health Implications in Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality, South Africa 73 -- Water-Rock Interaction Processes: A Local Scale Study on Arsenic Sources and Release Mechanisms from a Volcanic Rock Matrix 97 -- Exploring Soil Pollution Patterns Using Self-Organizing Maps 117 -- Impact Factors on Migration of Molybdenum(VI) from the Simulated Trade Effluent Using Membrane Chemical Reactor Combined with Carrier in the Mixed Renewal Solutions 135 -- Spatial Distribution, Contamination Levels, and Health Risk Assessment of Potentially Toxic Elements in Household Dust in Cairo City, Egypt 145 -- Composition, Source Apportionment, and Health Risk of PM2.5-Bound Metals during Winter Haze in Yuci College Town, Shanxi, China 167 -- Pollution Characteristics, Source Apportionment, and Health Risk Assessment of Potentially Toxic Elements (PTEs) in Road Dust Samples in Jiayuguan, Hexi Corridor, China 181 -- Pollution and Health Risk Assessments of Potentially Toxic Elements in the Fine-Grained Particles (10-63 µm and <10 µm) in Road Dust from Apia City, Samoa 199.