Gaseous mercury fluxes from soils and health risk assessment at a coastal legacy industrial site

, respectively), highlighting the impact of land-use on GEM volatilisation. Overall, GEM emissions were below the estimated acceptable GEM flux for the site (Hazard Index<1), with the exception of 8 points randomly distributed over the study area and not likely indicative of a real unacceptable risk related to legacy re-emissions from contaminated soils. These results indicate that the adopted approach can be useful for large-scale preliminary investigations of GEM fluxes in Hg-contaminated sites, allowing point anomalies to be detected through direct field measurements.