TY - BOOK ID - 74616793 TI - Soil Contamination AU - Simone Pascucci AU - Pascucci, Simone PY - 2011 SN - 9535144383 953307647X PB - IntechOpen DB - UniCat KW - Soil Pollution. KW - Contamination of soil KW - Soil contamination KW - Pollution KW - Soils KW - Soil remediation KW - Soil salinization KW - Environmental aspects KW - Soil Science KW - Physical Sciences KW - Engineering and Technology KW - Soil Degradation KW - Earth and Planetary Sciences UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:74616793 AB - Soil contamination has severely increased over the last decades, mainly due to petroleum hydrocarbons, solvents, pesticides, lead and other heavy metals from industrial wastes and human activities. The critical point regarding contaminated soil monitoring is the intrinsic difficulty in defining fixed monitoring variables and indicators as the establishment of any a priori criterion and threshold for soil quality can be still considered subjective. This book is organized into eight chapters and presents the state-of-the art and new research highlights in the context of contaminated soil monitoring and remediation strategies, including examples from South America, Europe and Asia. The chapters deal with the following topics: - monitoring of dioxin, furan, hydrocarbons and heavy metals level in soils - bioindicators and biomarkers for the assessment of soil toxicity - use of reflectance spectroscopy for soil contaminants and waste material detection - remediation technologies and strategies. ER -