One of the main problems facing society today is soil degradation and contamination. Soil quality affects environmental and human health directly, through its capacity to retain or immobilise inorganic and organic pollutants, and indirectly, through its impact on water quality and food security.
This session aims to bring together research studies addressing the relationship between soil quality and environmental and human health through the processes and pathways of exposure to contaminants, and how this exposure is recorded in the soil. The aim is to promote and integrate studies that improve the assessment of environmental quality and human health with soil quality indicators for agricultural, forest and urban soils, as well as strategies for the mitigation or remediation of soil. We will also highlight studies focusing on new technologies to assess and improve soil quality, as well as multidisciplinary approaches to sustainable soil management and their impact on human health.
We invite colleagues to present their studies and form new cross-cutting, multidisciplinary partnerships to propose solutions or ways to identify soil health-related risks and risks to environmental and human health.