Green remediation

Introduction

Part I. State of pollution and opportunities for biological remediation

Chapter 1. Sources and evolution of pollution: air, soil, water, and the concept of phytoremediation.

Didier Le Thiec, Jean-Louis Morel

Identification of major sources of pollution

Effects of this pollution on the environment

Remediation, phytoremediation, and nature-based solutions

Chapter 2. Biological remediation of polluted compartments: methods and applications

Sylvain Bourgerie, Domenico Morabito, Manhattan Lebrun

Phytoremediation

Bioremediation

Factors influencing the success of biological remediation

Advantages and limitations of biological remediation

Part II. Biological decontamination of air, water, and effluents

Chapter 3. Capture of atmospheric pollutants by crops: mechanisms and consequences

Jean-François Castell

Mechanisms of transfer and capture

Use of crops for air pollution control

Chapter 4. Potential and limitations of air pollution mitigation by urban green structures

Juliette Leymarie, Jean-François Castell

Potential for air pollution control at the small urban area and urban park scales

Specific effects: small green areas, spatial organization, isolated trees

Plant traits influencing pollutant capture

Capacity of green structures for air pollution control

Chapter 5. Landscaping to reduce the transfer of agricultural contaminants to aquatic environments

Julien Tournebize, Cédric Chaumont

Strategy for intercepting drainage water

Performance of artificial wetlands for nitrate removal

Performance of artificial wetlands for pesticide removal

Part III. Rehabilitation and recovery of polluted soils: plant and microbial approaches

Chapter 6. Pollution of mining or industrial sites and assisted phytostabilization strategies

Sylvain Bourgerie, Domenico Morabito, Manhattan Lebrun

Plant mechanisms influencing the mobility of trace elements (TEs)

Amendments as stabilizers of TEs

Microbial mechanisms involved

Chapter 7. Soil pollution by hydrocarbons, microbial biodegradation, and the role of plants

Aurélie Cébron, Thierry Beguiristain, Marc Crampon, Marie-Paule Norini, Pierre Leglize

Microbial metabolisms involved in hydrocarbon biodegradation and their use in bioremediation

Role of plants in hydrocarbon dynamics

Optimization of phytoremediation

Challenges of in situ phytoremediation

Chapter 8. Phytomanagement: a nature-based solution for rehabilitating contaminated soil

Yoann Boisson, Lisa Ciadamidaro, Michel Chalot

Phytomanagement strategies for rehabilitating soil contaminated with trace elements

Microorganism-assisted phytoremediation

Economic valorization of the biomass produced

Chapter 9. Phytomanagement for managing soil pollution in agricultural and urban contexts

Thierry Lebeau

Sources of soil contamination in rural and urban environments

Management strategies for polluted soils

Application of phytomanagement to agricultural soils

Chapter 10. Harvesting metals with agromining

Jean-Louis Morel, Marie-Odile Simonnot, Yetao Tang, Guillaume Echevarria, Wenshen Liu, Baptiste Laubie

What is agromining?

Nickel agromining

Rare-earth element agromining

Part IV. Economic feasibility and social acceptability of remediation strategies

Chapter 11. The difficult economics of soil remediation

Xavier Galiégue

Soil remediation: assessing damage

Soil remediation: what remediation action?

What remediation criteria? The complex interplay among stakeholders

Chapter 12. Social barriers to the introduction of phytomanagement

Valérié Bert, Hervé Flanquart

What is social acceptability?

How acceptable are phytotechnologies?

How acceptable is phytomass from phytotechnologies?

General conclusion

List of abbreviations

List of authors