Environmental geochemistry: Introduction

Assessing the physical, geographic, chemical, and geological aspects are important to understand environmental impacts as well as health concerns in view of building a more sustainable planet with circular economies that would last for the foreseeable future. In the recent years, the significance of incorporating ecosystem, anthropogenic activities, and climate has fortified from being an academic concern (e.g., WEF, 2011) into a broadly societal concern as the forecasted realities of environmental deterioration and global climate change come to pass,