This issue showcases state-of-the-art advancements on Persistent, emerging, and organic pollutants (PEOPs) especially within the climate change context.
Persistent, emerging, and organic pollutants (PEOPs) pose ecological and health risks due to their persistent, toxic, carcinogenic, and/or bio-accumulative properties and associated long-term ecological and health risks. Many are not regulated or legislated, mainly due to the lack of in-depth knowledge about their fate, transport, impact, or corresponding lack of effective management and mitigation. These emerging pollutants are found in air, surface water, groundwater, ice caps, oceans, soils, and sediments, and there is increasing evidence of their toxicity at all trophic levels, highlighting an urgent need for effective management and mitigation approaches globally. The topic becomes ever challenging in the context of climate change and important for science and policy.
This special issue resulted from the LEADERS & PEOPLE 2020 Virtual Symposium on August 30 - September 1
Guest Editors:
Dr. Chunjiang An, Concordia University, Canada, chunjiang.an@concordia.ca
Dr. R. Stephen Brown, Queen’s University, Canada, stephen.brown@chem.queensu.ca
Dr. Wendy Huang, University of Calgary, Canada, wendy.huang3@ucalgary.ca
Dr. Weiyun Lin, Memorial University, Canada, peoplenetwork@mun.ca
Dr. Helen Zhang, Memorial University, Canada, bzhang@mun.ca
Articles will undergo all of the journal's standard peer review and editorial processes outlined in its submission guidelines