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 from all over
China including Hong Kong and Taiwan. The authors include scientists engineers entrepreneurs
and managers from 26 universities 18 institutes 4 leading enterprises and 2 government
environmental protection departments. The contents cover fundamental research 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 remediation techniques mainly include physical
and chemical remediation (thermal desorption soil vapor extraction in situ advanced chemical
oxidation solidification and stabilization) phytoremediation (phytostabilization
phytoextraction by hyperaccumulators phyto-prevention by low accumulation plants)
bioremediation (microbial adsorption and immobilization microbial degradation
microbe-enhanced phytoremediation) and combined remediation merging multiple technologies. The
governance and policy section mainly explores laws and regulations criteria and standards
financial guarantees and the industrial market for soil environment and pollution prevention.
