Grand challenges in environmental engineering

Abstract

Environmental issues such as water pollution, climate change, soil erosion, hazardous wastes, resource depletion, and biodiversity loss have been at the front of global concerns for many years. These environmental problems pose a severe threat to the quality of human life and ecosystem sustainability, and thus protecting the natural environment has become an important task for individuals, organizations, and governments. Encouragingly, environmentalists and engineers have made great achievements in the development of …