Green remediation

Using plants to rehabilitate contaminated environments

by Domenico Morabito (editorial coordination), Sylvain Bourgerie (editorial coordination), Manhattan Lebrun (editorial coordination), Didier Le Thiec (editorial coordination)
Collection: Synthèses
december 2025
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Summary

Soil, air, and water pollution, resulting from industrialization and population growth, affects physical, chemical, and biological balances and impacts health, biodiversity, and ecosystem services. The consequences of this pollution are manifold: global climate change, a significant loss of soil ecological functions, and degradation of the quality and availability of water resources, among others.
Numerous international research projects and initiatives have contributed, establishing an accurate assessment of these contaminants and developing solutions aimed at limiting their effects. Through clear concepts, rigorous analytical methods, and case studies, this book presents solutions based on ecological approaches to meet these environmental challenges. It highlights alternative techniques to conventional solutions, combining environmental efficiency and sustainability. Scientific and technological advances in green remediation are presented, along with various remediation processes, such as phytoremediation and phytomanagement, and sustainable solutions aligned with current environmental policies.
Intended for students and professionals, this book offers a comprehensive and detailed overview of the management and remediation of contaminated sites.

Table of contents

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

Press

More contents

Features

Language(s): French

Publisher: Éditions Quae

Edition: 1st edition

Collection: Synthèses

Published: 8 december 2025

Reference Book: 03027

Reference eBook [PDF]: 03027NUM

Reference eBook [ePub]: 03027EPB

EAN13 Book: 9782759241811

EAN13 eBook [PDF]: 9782759241828

EAN13 eBook [ePub]: 9782759241835

DOI eBook [PDF] : 10.35690/978-2-7592-4182-8

Interior: Colour

Format (in mm) Book: 160 x 240

Pages count Book: 158

Pages count eBook [PDF]: 158

Weight (in grammes): 370

Size: 5.09 MB (PDF), 4.63 MB (ePub)

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