{"title":"Introductory Chapter: Soil Contamination and Alternatives for Sustainable Development","authors":"D. Vázquez-Luna, M. C. Cuevas-Díaz","doi":"10.5772/INTECHOPEN.83720","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Soil degradation and environmental pollution have a great impact on human life, because every year, 2 million people die worldwide due to air pollution [1]; countless numbers of people are exposed unnecessarily to chemicals in the workplace, such as in the external environment [2], because soil, air, and vegetation contain organochlorine pesticides with high carcinogenic risk [3, 4] and heavy metals [5].","PeriodicalId":306242,"journal":{"name":"Soil Contamination and Alternatives for Sustainable Development","volume":"141 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2019-01-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"3","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Soil Contamination and Alternatives for Sustainable Development","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.5772/INTECHOPEN.83720","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Soil degradation and environmental pollution have a great impact on human life, because every year, 2 million people die worldwide due to air pollution [1]; countless numbers of people are exposed unnecessarily to chemicals in the workplace, such as in the external environment [2], because soil, air, and vegetation contain organochlorine pesticides with high carcinogenic risk [3, 4] and heavy metals [5].