Soil heavy metal pollution of industrial legacies in China and health risk assessment

• Published in: The Science of the total environment Vol. 816; p. 151632
• Main Authors: Peng, Jing-yu, Zhang, Shuai, Han, Yingyu, Bate, Bate, Ke, Han, Chen, Yunmin
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Netherlands Elsevier B.V 10.04.2022
• Subjects: carcinogenicity; Child; China; environment; Environmental Monitoring; Environmental Pollution - analysis; Female; health effects assessments; Health risk assessment; Heavy metals; human health; Humans; Industrial legacies; Male; Metals, Heavy - analysis; people; Pollution; risk; Risk Assessment; risk management; river deltas; rivers; Soil; Soil Pollutants - analysis; uncertainty; urbanization; watersheds; Yangtze River; China; Yangtze River; Industrial legacies; Soil; Pollution; Health risk assessment; Heavy metals

Rapid urbanization in China has brought about large-scale factory relocation. Severe environmental ecological and human health risks are caused by a large number of contaminated legacies left in the city. To comprehensively review the pollution and assess the health risk of industrial legacies in Ch...