Introduction

Land management is an important sustainability challenge in many locations because of contamination and/or degradation. There are many aspects related to reducing risk associated with contaminants in soil and improving soil quality. The science and engineering of phytotechnologies with biomass production have been advanced in many countries with much of the research being published after 1985. In most phytotechnology applications at contaminated sites, improving soil quality is a priority, and productive use of the land is one of the goals. Remediation of contaminated soil has great value for society and being able to produce a biomass product to improve the economics is very beneficial in countries where resources to address environmental challenges are limited. Miscanthus is a very valuable biomass product and an effective plant for many applications because of its properties. Since partial funding has been provided by NATO, an effort has been≈made to address topics that are important to NATO countries in this work.