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Understanding Soils in Urban Environments - Pam Hazelton, Brian Murphy

Understanding Soils in Urban Environments

Buch | Softcover
192 Seiten
2021 | Second Edition
CSIRO Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-4863-1401-0 (ISBN)
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Explains how urban soils develop, change and erode, and their impacts on urban development.
With an ever-increasing proportion of the world's population living in cities, soil properties such as salinity, acidity, water retention, erosion and pollution are becoming more significant in urban areas. While these are known issues for agriculture and forestry, as urban development increases, it is essential to recognise the potential of soil properties to create problems for the environment as well as structural concerns for buildings and other engineering works.

Understanding Soils in Urban Environments explains how urban soils develop, change and erode. It describes their physical and chemical properties with a focus on specific soil problems that cause environmental damage, such as acid sulfate soils, and also affect the integrity of engineering structural works. This fully revised second edition addresses contemporary issues, including an increase in the use of green roofs and urban green space as well as manufactured soils in a variety of urban environments.

Understanding Soils in Urban Environments provides a concise introduction to all aspects of soils in urban environments and will be extremely useful to students in a wide range of disciplines, from soil science and urban forestry and horticulture, to planning, engineering, construction and land remediation, as well as to engineers, builders, landscape architects, ecologists, planners and developers.

Dr Pam Hazelton has been a practising soil scientist for more than 35 years. She has been a consultant, a soil surveyor and a lecturer focused on the environmental and engineering problems of urban soils. She is a former President of Soil Science Australia and also Vice President of the International Union of Soil Scientists Commission for Education in Soil Science. Dr Brian Murphy has worked as a soil scientist for 30 years with a strong focus on applied science. He provides day-to-day advice on the management of soils for a range of natural resource issues, and his interests lie in the application of soil science to environmental management, hydrology, salinity and urban land use. He is also an editor of the textbook Soils: Their Properties and Management. He is a former President of the NSW Branch of Soil Science Australia.

Preface for second edition

Acknowledgments



Chapter 1Soils in an urban environment

Chapter 2Soil characteristics important for urban soil management

Chapter 3Soils and the hydrological cycle in urban environments

Chapter 4Soil property problems for engineering works

Chapter 5Soil contamination in urban areas

Chapter 6Urban soils and ecosystems

Chapter 7Soils and vegetation: contributing to a more sustainable urban environment

Chapter 8Urban development on coastal soils

Chapter 9Interpretation of soil attributes in an urban environment



Glossary

Further reading

Appendix: Some international soil classifications

Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag 1.11.2021
Zusatzinfo Illustrations
Verlagsort Melbourne
Sprache englisch
Maße 170 x 245 mm
Gewicht 665 g
Themenwelt Naturwissenschaften Chemie
Naturwissenschaften Geowissenschaften Geografie / Kartografie
Naturwissenschaften Geowissenschaften Geologie
Weitere Fachgebiete Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei
ISBN-10 1-4863-1401-5 / 1486314015
ISBN-13 978-1-4863-1401-0 / 9781486314010
Zustand Neuware
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