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Rita Nicolau and Beatriz Condessa
This study seeks to contribute to the definition of a ?no net land take? policy by 2050 for Portugal?s second-largest metropolitan region (AMP, Porto Metropolitan Area) while sensitising those involved in regional and local planning to the European targe...
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Qingfu Xiao, E. Gregory McPherson, Qi Zhang, Xinlei Ge, Randy Dahlgren
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This study evaluated the effectiveness of two bioswales eight years after construction in Davis, California. The treatment bioswale measured 9 m × 1 m × 1 m (L × W × D). Engineered soil mix (75% native lava rock and 25% loam soil) replaced the native loa...
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Qingfu Xiao, E. Gregory McPherson, Qi Zhang, Xinlei Ge and Randy Dahlgren
This study evaluated the effectiveness of two bioswales eight years after construction in Davis, California. The treatment bioswale measured 9 m × 1 m × 1 m (L × W × D). Engineered soil mix (75% native lava rock and 25% loam soil) replaced the native loa...
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Stefano Salata and Taygun Uzelli
It is well acknowledged that sustainable soil management can play a crucial role in reducing the vulnerability of urban areas, but are soil characteristics properly evaluated in the decision-making process concerning urbanization? Within this work, we co...
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Shi-Bo Fang, Hao Hu, Wan-Chun Sun and Jian-Jun Pan
China has experienced rapid urbanization in recent years. The acceleration of urbanization has created wealth and opportunity as well as intensified ecological and environmental problems, especially soil pollution. Our study concentrated on the variation...
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Victoria Kamenchuk, Boris Rumiantsev, Sofya Dzhatdoeva, Elchin Sadykhov and Azret Kochkarov
Urban vertical farming is an innovative solution to address the increasing demand for food in densely populated cities. With advanced technology and precise monitoring, closed urban vertical farms can optimize growing conditions for plants, resulting in ...
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Giovanna Concu, Mariangela Deligia and Mauro Sassu
Several Italian cities are characterized by the presence of centuries-old historic walls, which have a cultural heritage value and, due to their structural role as a retaining wall, often influence the safety of adjacent buildings and infrastructure. Anc...
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Cecilia Herbón, María Teresa Barral and Remigio Paradelo
With the objective of increasing information inorganic pollutants in urban soils in Spain, we studied the presence of Cu, Pb, Zn, Ni, Cr, and As in 55 soils in the city of Santiago de Compostela (northwestern Spain). The soils were developed over diverse...
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Elisa Gaggero, Mery Malandrino, Debora Fabbri, Giorgio Bordiglia, Anna Fusconi, Marco Mucciarelli, Paolo Inaudi and Paola Calza
This study investigated the concentrations of 22 elements in two Turin urban soils located in the city center (Campana Street garden (CA)) and in a peripheral area (Nobile Park (NOB)). The former was found contaminated by Pb, Zn, Ba, Cr and Ni and, to a ...
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Abdul Raouf, Yulu Peng and Tayyab Ikram Shah
Urban parks and open spaces offer a unique setting that can play a vital role in improving health and quality of life in cities and towns, making cities more attractive places to live and work, and connecting residents to nature. Degradation of park faci...
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Abdul Raouf, Yulu Peng and Tayyab Ikram Shah
Urban parks and open spaces offer a unique setting that can play a vital role in improving health and quality of life in cities and towns, making cities more attractive places to live and work, and connecting residents to nature. Degradation of park faci...
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Sally D. Logsdon, Patricia Sauer
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Construction in urban areas usually results in compacted soil, which restricts plant growth and infiltration. Nutrients may be lost in storm runoff water and sediment. The purpose of this study was to determine if existing lawns benefit from aeration and...
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Sally D. Logsdon and Patricia Sauer
Construction in urban areas usually results in compacted soil, which restricts plant growth and infiltration. Nutrients may be lost in storm runoff water and sediment. The purpose of this study was to determine if existing lawns benefit from aeration and...
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Hailiang Lv, Wenjie Wang, Xingyuan He, Lu Xiao, Wei Zhou and Bo Zhang
Society has placed greater focus on the ecological service of urban forests; however, more information is required on the variation of carbon (C) in trees and soils in different functional forest types, administrative districts, and urban-rural gradients...
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Huimin Zhou, Tingping Ouyang, Yu Guo, Shasha Peng, Chenjian He and Zhaoyu Zhu
As a primary sink of pollutants, urban soil heavy metal pollution and its influence on urban residents and ecosystems has been becoming one of the most important environmental problems. In the present study, four indices, the Geoaccumulation index (Igeo)...
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Jane Entwistle, Lindsay Bramwell, Joanna Wragg, Mark Cave, Elliott Hamilton, Amanda Gardner and John R Dean
The solid-phase speciation of contaminants in soil plays a major role in regulating both the environmental mobility of contaminants and their bioavailability in biological receptors such as humans. With the increasing prevalence of urban agriculture, in ...
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Wenbo Li, Dongyan Wang, Qing Wang, Shuhan Liu, Yuanli Zhu and Wenjun Wu
Under rapid urban sprawl in Northeast China, land conversions are not only encroaching on the quantity of cultivated lands, but also posing a great threat to black soil conservation and food security. This study?s aim is to explore the spatial relationsh...
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Usman Raza and Abdul Salam
Storm drains and sanitary sewers are prone to backups and overflows due to extra amount wastewater entering the pipes. To prevent that, it is imperative to efficiently monitor the urban underground infrastructure. The combination of sensors system and wi...
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Safet Dogjani, Ylber Muceku, Pranvera Lazo
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In this paper, we shortly are treating the results of the radon concentration in soil gas, which are obtained by a detailed study that was carried out during 2000-2005 years in the urban area of Tirana, Capital City of Albania. The field measurements wer...
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Arturs Kempelis, Inese Polaka, Andrejs Romanovs and Antons Patlins
Urban agriculture presents unique challenges, particularly in the context of microclimate monitoring, which is increasingly important in food production. This paper explores the application of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to forecast key sensor m...
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