The course will produce an in-depth knowledge of the main soil pollutants, including sources and risks, and the techniques available to minimise its impacts.

This course offers you an opportunity to study advanced knowledge and techniques for managing contaminated soils. Traditional and novel or emerging technologies for soil remediation are presented in this course. Case studies of soil remediation taken from several Continents are introduced.

1. Understand the sources and behaviour of contaminants, including heavy metals, organic compounds and radioisotopes.
2. Understand how to identify and delineate soil contamination.
3. Understand pollutant transformation in soils
4. Apply a range of contemporary and novel soil remediation techniques in order to attenuate the impact of pollutants and critically evaluate its suitability to particular situations.