Urban Soil and Water Degradation
- 1st Edition, Volume 8 - November 17, 2022
- Latest edition
- Editors: Paulo Pereira, Carla Sofia Ferreira
- Language: English
Urban Soil and Water Degration, Volume Seven explores a wide breadth of emerging and state-of-the-art technologies, including comprehensive coverage of topics such as Urban spr… Read more
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Description
Description
Urban Soil and Water Degration, Volume Seven explores a wide breadth of emerging and state-of-the-art technologies, including comprehensive coverage of topics such as Urban sprawl, Soil degradation, Hydrological challenges in urban areas, Soil and water quality – pollutant sources and pathways, Ecosystem services in urban areas, Freshwater-related nature-based solutions in cities, Property Rights and Climate Change - land use under changing environmental conditions, Municipal planning to prevent soil and water degradation: The case of Vilnius, In between water and fires: soil degradation in a new Mediterranean peri-urban landscape, and more.
Additional chapters in this release include Groundwater in Venetian area, Soil protection and hydrogeological risk assessment. A strategic planning experience in Franciacorta, Data driven approach for assessing surface runoff in separated sewage systems: Israeli Case Study, Ecological status of urban streams and riparian habitats in the Czech Republic, Soil and water degradation in urban areas from western Romania, Mapping water ecosystem services: supply and demand in Stockholm, Land degradation and water availability in Ethiopia, and The study of land use and land cover changes in the Bekéscsaba area, Hungary.
Key features
Key features
- Covers a wide breadth of emerging and state-of-the-art technologies
- Includes contributions from an international board of authors
- Provides a comprehensive set of reviews
Readership
Readership
Table of contents
Table of contents
Volume Editor Preface
Paulo Pereira and Carla Sofia Santos Ferreira
1. Climate change and property rights: Challenges for land policy
B. Ayça Ataç and Thomas Hartmann
2. Urban sprawl: Theory and practice
Vito Imbrenda, Rosa Coluzzi, Leonardo Bianchini, Valerio Di Stefano and Luca Salvati
3. Hydrological challenges in urban areas
Carla S.S. Ferreira, António C. Duarte, Milica Kasanin-Grubin, Marijana Kapovic-Solomun and Zahra Kalantari
4. Land and flood protection: A strategic planning experience in Franciacorta (Lombardy, Italy)
Michele Pezzagno
5. Soil quality and urban sprawl: Insights from long-term patterns in the Rome metropolitan region
Francesca Perrone, Francesco Gallucci, Enrico Maria Mosconi and Luca Salvati
6. Mapping and assessment of flood regulation supply and demand in Vilnius (Lithuania)
Paulo Pereira, Marius Kalinauskas, Manob Das, Katažyna Bogdzevič, Miguel Inácio and Damia Barcelo
7. Mapping of ecosystem services: Supply and demand for local climate regulation and nutrient regulation services
Zahra Kalantari, Samaneh Seifollahi-Aghmiuni, Farzad Vahidi Mayamey, Navid Ghajarnia and Riad Lilipaly
8. Groundwater in the Venetian area
Sebastiano Trevisani, Paolo Fabbri and Pietro Daniel Omodeo
Product details
Product details
- Edition: 1
- Latest edition
- Volume: 8
- Published: November 17, 2022
- Language: English
About the editors
About the editors
PP
Paulo Pereira
CF