Environmental geochemistry and health (EGAH) Special Issue "reclamation of polluted soils for food production and human health: part 2".

The contamination factor indicated that some soil samples are very highly contaminated by Ba, Pb, Zn and V. Korobova et al. ([8]) studied the identifying patterns in the distribution of pollutants in the elementary landscape-geochemical systems (ELGS) of the temperate zone. The index for health hazard shows that Cd values were greater than Pb for human health risk. To abate the risks of the dumps cost-effectively, reclamation actions including soil stabilization by application of geosynthetic cover, hydroseeding of the mixture of soil improvers and seeds of herbaceous plants on the slopes and anti-erosion of I Juniperus oxycedrus i L. and I Cotinus coggygria i Scop. at subhorizontal surfaces. Potential ecological risk indexes showed that soils from mining areas pose a high potential ecological risk, and As and Cd were major risk contributors. [Extracted from the article]