Soil contamination

Capítulo sobre "Contaminación del Suelo" que forma parte del libro colectivo "Amenazas del Suelo en Europa" editado por Jannes Stolte et al. y publicado por el Joint Research Centre de la Unión Europea. Es un trabajo de revisión que ha resultado del proyecto europeo RECARE (http://www.recare-project.eu/).This report presents the result of WP2 of the RECARE project. One of the objectives of WP2 is to provide an improved overview of existing information on soil threats and degradation at the European scale. In particular, this chapter 8 deals with soil contamination, providing comprehensive, thematic information on this soil threat in Europe with due attention given to the Driving force-Pressure-State-Impact-Response to soil threats.European Commission, Joint Research Centre. The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Union Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007–2013) under grant agreement n° 603498 (RECARE).Peer reviewe