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Understanding Soils in Urban Environments (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
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Understanding Soils in Urban Environments (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
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Understanding Soils in Urban Environments is a concise book
explaining how urban soils develop, change and erode. Soils provide
the foundation for buildings and infrastructure, and the medium for
plant growth in fields, parks and gardens. They can act as a sink
for waste, and can be contaminated in urban areas by heavy metals,
organic chemicals and other contaminants. Soil properties such as
water retention, salinity and acidity can cause environmental and
structural problems for buildings and other engineering works. This
text recognises and draws attention to the particular nature of
soils in urban environments and discusses their distinctive
management needs. Since the first edition was published in 2011, it
has been used across a wide range of disciplines, many of which
require an understanding of urban soil and specific soil properties
that cause environmental concern. Urban soils are now recognised as
much more important now than they were ten years ago, when they
were seen as a poor relation to agriculture. The need for better
understanding of all aspects of this topic has become evident
especially at conferences in the last 5 years in Australia and
internationally, where urban soils are now included as specific
sections, not just as subsets such as contamination. This new
edition updates and expands on the original text, including a
specific chapter on the use of manufactured soil for rehabilitation
and recreation, and additional case studies in other chapters,
particularly contamination. The text is updated throughout to
address the increasing importance of soil health for seed banks and
parklands, and its implications for planning developments, the
legal determination of bioregions, and addressing environmental
issues that can arise from mismanagement of urban soils.
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