Urban soils research: SUITMA 10

Cheng, Zhongqi; Hettiarachchi, Ganga M.; Kim, Kye‐Hoon

doi:10.1002/jeq2.20191

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“…80 The Working Group of the International Union of Soil Sciences (IUSS) on Soils in Urban, Industrial, Traffic, Mining and Military Areas suggests that the urban soils with greater anthropogenic influences are vital to the sustainability and resiliency of cities. 81 The CECs will create the environmental concerns, more in urban soils than in rural soils. Nevertheless, the contaminants of both conventional and emerging types pose serious scientific and societal challenges to the global soil security, beyond soil health concerns, because of their complicated and cascading effects on the health of individual members and the whole ecosystem.…”

Section: Soil Contamination With Cecs: From Sink To Sourcementioning

confidence: 99%

Major contaminants of emerging concern in soils: a perspective on potential health risks

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Section: Soil Contamination With Cecs: From Sink To Sourcementioning

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Major contaminants of emerging concern in soils: a perspective on potential health risks

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“…Urban soils are studied primarily for their role in creating a sustainable environment, and they are also important for health [71]. According to Cheng et al [72], urban soils are a critical resource that can play a key role in the long-term sustainability and resilience of cities. Therefore, a more careful urban soil policy is necessary for large cities.…”

Section: Benefits Of This Small Urban Green Space: Ecosystem Servicesmentioning

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Recognizing the Importance of an Urban Soil in an Open-Air City Museum: An Opportunity in the City of Madrid, Spain

Jiménez‐Ballesta

García

García-Navarro

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This article examines the presence of urban soil buried under anthropogenic debris in an air-museum park in the Madrid city center (Spain), and highlights the particularities of this singular urbanized setting to indicate ecological evaluation options for soils. The study of a soil profile (with a thickness of about 2.30 m), classified as Urbic Technosols, allowed us to devise that it is formed by a series of filled-in amounts of artifacts (construction debris and other anthropogenic waste) of about 10–30%, plus organic and mineral materials. These soils’ composition and morphology depend on the natural conditions of the territory and also on anthropogenic activities. The soil properties (analyzed by conventional techniques) are moderate in acidity reaction and have relatively higher organic matter content. The Pb, Cu and Zn concentrations in anthropogenic horizons do not exceed the approximate permissible concentrations by 1.5–10-fold. Over the course of time, the soil profile has been transformed as a result of the impact of pedogenetic processes developing under the Mediterranean climate and man’s hand. Although urban environments present a certain complexity, at least the role of soil should be recognized regarding flood mitigation, recycling of wastes and toxins, filtering of nutrients or carbon storage and GHG regulation. The analysis of our results concludes the need to better perceive this soil profile and its green space to improve the urban ecosystem and to ensure better citizen well-being.

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“…Some international organizations and scholars have attached great importance to the classification of anthropogenic engineering soils. The Soils of Urban, Industrial, Traffic, Mining, and Military Areas international conference is held once every two years [10,11]. The International Commission for Anthropogenic Soils (ICOMANTH) was established in 1995 in the United States to deepen the study of anthropogenic soils.…”

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Revised Proposed Classifications for Typical Anthropogenic Soils in China

Hao,

Wu,

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As global industrialization and its associated anthropogenic activities rapidly increase, so too does the areal extent of human-altered soils. The soil classification framework must incorporate the classification schemes of these disturbed soils in order to remediate land. Soil Taxonomy (ST) and the World Reference Base for Soil Resources (WRB) are the most widely used soil classification systems in the world. In this study, 15 typical anthropogenic soil profiles with engineering and technical characteristics from China were selected for a classification study. The aim of this study was to clarify the classifications of these soil profiles in the ST, WRB, Chinese Soil Taxonomy (CST), and Geogenetic Soil Classification of China (GSCC), and make references accordingly. The results showed that the WRB can classify these soils as Technosols in the first level. ST can classify most of these soils as subgroups within the different great groups under Entisols, as well as the Human-Altered and Human-Transported Material classes within the soil family differentiae. For Chinese soil classification schemes, there is a large loophole in the CST regarding the classification of anthropogenic soils. Many anthropogenic soils cannot reflect these soils’ artificial and technical naming characteristics. For the CST, revised proposals based on the WRB and ST were proposed. Based on the artificial disturbance of soil layers, a manufactured layer was added to the diagnostic basis. The Artificalic Anthrosols suborder was added, and it can be divided into the Transporti-Artificalic Anthrosols and Alteri-Artificalic Anthrosols groups. The subgroups were defined by their levels of contamination, imperviousness, and artifact content. The “T” layer symbol was added to soil profile descriptions to reflect a specific layer about technology, such as A, E, B, and C, to reflect the main genetic horizons. This revised classification system is proposed for inclusion in the revised CST to account for the very large and expanding extent of disturbed soils in China and to remain current with other global soil taxonomy systems.

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Urban soils research: SUITMA 10

Cited by 7 publications

References 19 publications

Major contaminants of emerging concern in soils: a perspective on potential health risks

Major contaminants of emerging concern in soils: a perspective on potential health risks

Recognizing the Importance of an Urban Soil in an Open-Air City Museum: An Opportunity in the City of Madrid, Spain

Revised Proposed Classifications for Typical Anthropogenic Soils in China

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