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Biotic and Abiotic Contamination Due to Emerging Pollutants in Sewage Sludge and Soils: A Country-Based Perspective

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Emerging Pollutants in Sewage Sludge and Soils

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This book chapter deals with emerging pollutants in sewage sludge and soils, showing a country-based perspective for contaminants from both biotic and abiotic origins included in the category. Using scientific searching tools, a view on the evolution of the number of studies performed in this field can be obtained by years and by countries. As regards the countries showing higher number of results for publications on the subject, the searching tool Web of Science (WOS) indicates that: (a) for the searching string “emerging pollutants sewage sludge,” the countries on the top are China, Spain, and the USA; (b) for the searching string “emerging pollutants soil,” the top countries are China, the USA, and Spain. For both searching strings, these three countries have numbers of publications constituting more than 10% of the total of the world production (as per WOS). Overall, the total number of results found by the scientific searching tools used (Google Scholar, Scopus, and Web of Science) indicates that the field of research is still growing, and it is expected to continue in this way, as it is clear that emerging pollutants are of real concern for human health and the overall environment.

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Acknowledgements

Funding: This work was supported by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities [grant numbers RTI2018-099574-B-C21 and RTI2018-099574-B-C22]. It also received funds from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) (FEDER in Spain), being a complement to the previous grants, without additional grant number.

The sponsors had not involvement in study design; in the collection, analysis, and interpretation of data; in the writing of the report, and in the decision to submit the article for publication.

D. Fernández-Calviño holds a Ramón y Cajal contract (RYC-2016-20411) financed by the Spanish Ministry of Economy, Industry, and Competitiveness.

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    Raquel Cela-Dablanca, Esperanza Álvarez-Rodríguez, María J. Fernández-Sanjurjo & Avelino Núñez-Delgado

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    Manuel Arias-Estévez, Vanesa Santás-Miguel & David Fernández-Calviño

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Cela-Dablanca, R. et al. (2022). Biotic and Abiotic Contamination Due to Emerging Pollutants in Sewage Sludge and Soils: A Country-Based Perspective. In: Núñez-Delgado, A., Arias-Estévez, M. (eds) Emerging Pollutants in Sewage Sludge and Soils. The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry, vol 114. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/698_2022_846

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