Urban Soils
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Urban Soils

  1. 406 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Urban Soils

About this book

Globally, 30% of the world population lived in urban areas in 1950, 54% in 2016 and 66% projected by 2050. The most urbanized regions include North America, Latin America, and Europe. Urban encroachment depletes soil carbon and the aboveground biomass carbon pools, enhancing the flux of carbon from soil and vegetation into the atmosphere. Thus, urbanization has exacerbated ecological and environmental problems.

Urban soils are composed of geological material that has been drastically disturbed by anthropogenic activities and compromised their role in the production of food, aesthetics of residential areas, and pollutant dynamics. Properties of urban soils are normally not favorable to plant growth—the soils are contaminated by heavy metals and are compacted and sealed. Therefore, the quality of urban soils must be restored to make use of this valuable resource for delivery of essential ecosystem services (e.g., food, water and air quality, carbon sequestration, temperature moderation, biodiversity).

Part of the Advances in Soil Sciences Series, Urban Soils explains properties of urban soils; assesses the effects of urbanization on the cycling of carbon, nitrogen, and water and the impacts of management of urban soils, soil restoration, urban agriculture, and food security; evaluates ecosystem services provisioned by urban soils, and describes synthetic and artificial soils.

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Yes, you can access Urban Soils by Rattan Lal, B. A. Stewart, Rattan Lal,B. A. Stewart in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Biological Sciences & Ecology. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
CRC Press
Year
2017
Print ISBN
9781498770095
eBook ISBN
9781351650298
Edition
1
Topic
Biological Sciences
Subtopic
Ecology
Index
Biological Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Series Page
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Contents
  7. Preface
  8. Editors
  9. Contributors
  10. Chapter 1: Urban Agriculture in the 21st Century
  11. Chapter 2: Urban Soil Mapping through the United States National Cooperative Soil Survey
  12. Chapter 3: Changes in Soil Organic Carbon Stocks by Urbanization
  13. Chapter 4: Drivers of Urban Soil Carbon Dynamics
  14. Chapter 5: Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Cycling and Ecosystem Service in Cities
  15. Chapter 6: Urban Soil Carbon Storage
  16. Chapter 7: Sealing Effects on Properties of Urban Soils
  17. Chapter 8: Contaminants in Urban Soils: Bioavailability and Transfer
  18. Chapter 9: Optimizing the Hydrologic Properties of Urban Soils
  19. Chapter 10: Making Soils from Urban Wastes
  20. Chapter 11: Properties of Soils Affected by Highways
  21. Chapter 12: An Applied Hydropedological Perspective on the Rendering of Ecosystem Services from Urban Soils
  22. Chapter 13: Biogeochemistry of Rooftop Farm Soils
  23. Chapter 14: Managing Urban Soils for Food Production
  24. Chapter 15: Vertical Farming Using Hydroponics and Aeroponics
  25. Chapter 16: Soils and Waste Management in Urban India
  26. Chapter 17: Enhancing Awareness about the Importance of Urban Soils
  27. Chapter 18: Feeding Megacities by Urban Agriculture
  28. Appendix
  29. Index