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Urban Expansion, Land Cover and Soil Ecosystem Services: Routledge Studies in Urban Ecology

Editat de Ciro Gardi
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 6 apr 2017
More than half of the world population now lives in cities, and urban expansion continues as rural people move to cities. This results in the loss of land for other purposes, particularly soil for agriculture and drainage. This book presents a review of current knowledge of the extension and projected expansion of urban areas at a global scale.
Focusing on the impact of the process of 'land take' on soil resources and the ecosystem services that they provide, it describes approaches and methodologies for detecting and measuring urban areas, based mainly on remote sensing, together with a review of models and projected data on urban expansion. The most innovative aspect includes an analysis of the drivers and especially the impacts of soil sealing and land take on ecosystem services, including agriculture and food security, biodiversity, hydrology, climate and landscape. 
Case studies of cities from Europe, China and Latin America are included. The aim is not only to present and analyse this important environmental challenge, but also to propose and discuss solutions for the limitation, mitigation and compensation of this process.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781138885097
ISBN-10: 1138885096
Pagini: 332
Ilustrații: 288
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 mm
Greutate: 0.77 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Routledge Studies in Urban Ecology

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Cuprins

Foreword  Fernanda Guerrieri  Part 1: Introducing and Understanding the Process  1. Is Urban Expansion a Problem?  Ciro Gardi  2. Measuring and Monitoring the Extent of the Built Environment: Methodologies and Data Available  Michele Munafò and Luca Congedo  3. Measuring and Monitoring the Extent of the Built Environment: From the Local to the Global Scale  Daniele Ehrlich, Aneta J. Florczyk, Andreea Julea, Thomas Kemper, Martino Pesaresi and Vasileios Syrris  4. Modelling and Projecting Urban Land Cover  Carlo Lavalle, Filipe Batista e Silva, Claudia Baranzelli, Chris Jacobs-Crisioni, Ana Luisa Barbosa, Jean-Philippe Aurambout, Ricardo Barranco, Mert Kompil, Ine Vandecasteele and Carolina Perpiña Castillo  5. Drivers of Urban Expansion  Stefan Fina  Part 2: Impact of Land Take and Soil Sealing on Soil-related Ecosystem Services  6. Urban Expansion and Impacts on Ecosystem Services: An Overview  Mitchell Pavo-Zuckermann and Richard Pouyat  7. Impact of Land Take on Global Food Security  Ciro Gardi  8. Hydrological Impact of Soil Sealing and Urban Land Take  Alberto Pistocchi  9. Impact of Land Take on Biodiversity  Geertrui Louwagie, Mirko Gregor, Manuel Löhnertz, Ece Aksoy, Christoph Schröder and Erika Orlitova  10. Impact of Land Take and Soil Sealing on Carbon Storage  Klaus Lorenz and Rattan Lal  11. Urban Sprawl, Soil Sealing and Impacts on Local Climate  Luigi Perini, Andrea Colantoni, Gianluca Renzi and Luca Salvati  12. Impacts of Urban Sprawl on Landscape  Marie Cugny-Seguin  Part 3: Case Studies  13. Italy  Michele Munafò and Luca Congedo  14. Urban Land Expansion and its Impacts on Cultivated Land in the Pearl River Delta, China  Xiaoqing Song and Zhifeng Wu  15. Urbanization in Mexico as Cases for Latin America  René R. Colditz, María Isabel Cruz López, Adrian Guillermo Aguilar Martínez, José Manuel Dávila Rosas. and, Rainer A. Ressl  16. Dar es Salam  Michele Munafò and Luca Congedo  Part 4: Policy and Good Practices  17. Limitation, Mitigation and Compensation  Stefano Salata and Gundula Prokop  18. Policy, Strategy and Technical Solutions for Land Take Limitations  Stefano Salata  19. Soil Sealing and Land Take as Global Soil Threat: The Policy Perspective  Luca Montanarella  20. Conclusions  Ciro Gardi

Recenzii

"I hope the planners of the world will take notice of books such as this when making sure that they mitigate the damage to soil structure, drainage and ecosystem services." - British Ecological Society Bulletin (December 2017)

Notă biografică

Ciro Gardi works in the Animal and Plant Health Unit of the European Food Safety Authority, Parma, Italy. Previously, he was a Senior Scientist at the Land Resource Management Unit of the Joint Research Center of the European Commission and Professor of Soil Science at the University of Parma. He has served as an independent expert and consultant for the European Commission, World Bank, OECD and several NGOs and is currently a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Global Soil Biodiversity Initiative, representing it in the Global Soil Partnership (FAO).

Descriere

This book presents a review of current knowledge of the extension and projected expansion of urban areas at a global scale, focusing on the impact of the process of "land take" on soil resources and the ecosystem services that they provide.