Soil Pollution and Soil Protection

Contents Preface/F.A.M. De Haan and M.I. Visser Reyneveld. 1. Soil quality evaluation/F.A.M. De Haan. 2. Soil protection/J.J. Vegter. 3. Physical concepts of soil pollution/J. Feyen M. Vanclooster J. Diels and D. Mallants. 4. Uptake of pollutants by soil organisms/N.M. Van Straalen. 5. Effects of pollutants on soil organisms/N.M. Van Straalen. 6. Biotechnical processes for cleaning soils and sediments polluted with organisms/W. Verstraete G. Genouw H. Van De Werf and P. Vanneck. 7. Use of microorganisms in soil sanitation/G. Schraa. 8. Precipitation dissolution reactions/W.H. Van Riemsdijk. 9. Basic principles of chemical speciation calculations/M.G. Keizer. 10. Adsorption and desorption reactions I basic principles and simplified models/W.H. Van Riemsdijk. 11. Adsorption and desorption II comparison of models for adsorption solid solution and surface precipitation/W.H. Van Riemsdijk. 12. Behaviour and fate of organic contaminants in soil and groundwater/J.P.G Loch. 13. Introduction to soil chemical aspects of bio availability/W.H. Van Riemsdijk. 14. The application of chemical speciation calculations/M.G. Keizer. 15. Soil protection in relation to soil vulnerability/J. Bouma. 16. Effects acid atmospheric deposition on soil and groundwater/N. Van Breemen J.J.M Van Grinsven and W.De Vries. 17. Soil plant relationship in contaminated soils/M. Verloc. 18. Soil as a waste management system restraints imposed by persistent constituents/F.A.M. De Haan and S.E.A.T.M. Van der Zee. 19. Community policy on contaminated land/A. Piavaux. This book has been compiled from lecture handouts prepared for the International Postgraduate Course on Soil Quality entitled Soil Pollution and Soil Protection given jointly by the Universities of Wageningen (The Netherlands) Gent and Leuven (Belgium) under the auspices of the International Training Centre (PHLO) of Wageningen Agricultural University. Of the three environmental compartments air water and soil it is soil that varies most in composition under natural conditions. The effects of chemical degradation of soil usually referred to as Soil Pollution depend on interactions between soil constituents and pollutants and also on the relatively large buffering capacity of soil. It is therefore very difficult to evaluate soil quality quantitatively yet such evaluation is a prerequisite for formulating policy and legislation to prevent soil pollution and restore soil quality. The book therefore aims to provide basic information to aid understanding of the complex problem of soil quality and its evaluation. Its intended readers are graduates who are professionally involved in soil quality and have to deal with problems of soil protection in the context of education research policy making or consultancy. 306 pp.…