title: Method for Assessing the Integrated Risk of Soil Pollution in Industrial and Mining Gathering Areas.
abstract: Industrial and mining activities are recognized as major sources of soil pollution. This study proposes an index system for evaluating the inherent risk level of polluting factories and introduces an integrated risk assessment method based on human health risk. As a case study, the health risk, polluting factories and integrated risks were analyzed in a typical industrial and mining gathering area in China, namely, Binhai New Area. The spatial distribution of the risk level was determined using a Geographic Information System. The results confirmed the following: (1) Human health risk in the study area is moderate to extreme, with heavy metals posing the greatest threat; (2) Polluting factories pose a moderate to extreme inherent risk in the study area. Such factories are concentrated in industrial and urban areas, but are irregularly distributed and also occupy agricultural land, showing a lack of proper planning and management; (3) The integrated risks of soil are moderate to high in the study area.
authors.affiliation: College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China. kiranedved@yeah.net.
authors.forename: Yang
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Guan
authors.affiliation: College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China. shaocf@nankai.edu.cn.
authors.forename: Chaofeng
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Shao
authors.affiliation: Department of Soil Pollution and Control, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing 100012, China. guqb@craes.org.cn.
authors.forename: Qingbao
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Gu
authors.affiliation: College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China. jumeit@nankai.edu.cn.
authors.forename: Meiting
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ju
authors.affiliation: Department of Soil Pollution and Control, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing 100012, China. zhangqian@craes.org.cn.
authors.forename: Qian
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Zhang
mesh_terms: D002681:China; D004784:Environmental Monitoring / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D007220:Industrial Waste / Q000032:analysis*; D019216:Metals, Heavy / Q000032:analysis*; D008906:Mining; D018570:Risk Assessment; D012989:Soil Pollutants / Q000032:analysis*
chemical_list: D007220:Industrial Waste; D019216:Metals, Heavy; D012989:Soil Pollutants
keywords: industrial and mining gathering areas; inherent risk level assessment; integrated risk analysis; polluting factory; soil environmental risk assessment