Risk-Based Approach for Contaminated Soil Management

The current chapter illustrates aspects of sustainable soil management, the basic concepts for site investigation based on the calculation of the risk associated with the various chemicals that affect the structure, quality, and functions of the soil, as well as the highlighting of the most important remedial strategies used to reduce pollution. As a result, the soil can be used for a variety of industrial and civil purposes. Sustainable soil management is a concept based on technical-scientific and economic knowledge. Simultaneously, policy actions are taken to maintain and increase soil productivity, protect biodiversity, reduce risk, and protect natural resource potential by preventing soil quality degradation and supporting ecosystem services. In the decisionmaking process for Assessing Human Health Risk for contaminated sites, the development of the site's conceptual model is recommended for a better understanding of the evolution of the respective site's situation. The development of a Conceptual Site Model (CSM) is useful for assessing the contamination risks of any site because it identifies the sources of hazards, potential receptors (people, ecology, and infrastructure), and exposure pathways.

Keywords: Soil pollution, Risk assesment, Risk-Based Land Management (RBLM), Heavy metals, Conceptual Site Model (CSM), Remediation technologies, Electrochemical remediation.