Table of Contents

1. Soil contamination issues: past, present and future, a personal perspective.- 2. The fate of non-metal contaminants in the soil environment.- 3. Fate of contaminants in the soil environment: metal contaminants.- 4. Transport and fate of organic contaminants in the subsurface.- 5. Adverse impacts of agriculture on soil, water and food quality.- 6. Issues in the disposal of industrial and urban wastes.- 7. Exploration, mining and mineral processing.- 8. Legal responses to the problem of soil contamination — the Australian experience.- 9. Health risk assessment and management of contaminated sites in Australia.- 10. Listen and learn — developing effective communications strategies to deal with communities affected by contaminated sites.- 11. Sources, potential adverse effects and remediation of agricultural soil contaminants.- 12. Technologies for enhanced remediation of contaminated soils and aquifers: overview, analysis, and case studies.- 13. Remediation of inorganics and organics in industrial and urban contaminated soils.- 14. Contaminants and the Australian soil environment.- 15. Contaminants and the soil environment in China.- 16. Trace metal contamination of the Hong Kong soil environment: a review.- 17. Soil contaminants in India: an overview.- 18. Soil contamination issues in the Republic of Korea (South Korea).- 19. Contaminants and the soil environment in Malaysia.- 20. Contaminants and the soil environment in New Zealand.- 21. Contaminants and the soil environment of Pakistan.- 22. Contaminants and the soil environment in Papua New Guinea: an overview.- 23. Contaminated soils in the South Pacific Islands.- 24. Contaminants and the soil environment in Sri Lanka.- 25. Contamination of rural and urban soils in Taiwan.