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- The first book to contain a comprehensive overview of the subject
- Provides a key for identifying technogenic materials during field work
- Over 100 tables included
- Written by a leading expert in the field
- Relevant for practitioners worldwide in urban planning, construction and environmental health
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Environmental Pollution (EPOL, volume 18)
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With more than 50% of the world’s population already living in towns and cities, migration from rural areas continuing at an alarming rate in developing countries and suburbanisation using more and more land in developed countries, the urban environment has become supremely important with regard to human health and wellbeing. For centuries, urbanisation has caused relatively low level soil conta- nation mainly by various wastes. However, from the time of the Industrial Revolution onwards, both the scale of urban development and the degree of soil contamination rapidly increased and involved an ever widening spectrum of c- taminants. With constraints on the supply of land for new urban development in many countries, it is becoming increasingly necessary to re-use previously dev- oped (brownfield) sites and to deal with their accompanying suites of contaminants. It is therefore essential to fully understand the diversity and properties of urban soils, to assess the possible risks from the contaminants they contain and devise ways of cleaning up sites and/or minimizing hazards. The author, Helmut Meuser, is Professor of Soil Protection and Soil Clean-up at the University of Applied Sciences, Osnabrück and is one of Europe’s foremost experts on contamination from technogenic materials in urban soils. He has many years’ experience of research in Berlin, Essen, Osnabrück, other regions of Germany, and several other countries.
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Book Title: Contaminated Urban Soils
Authors: Helmut Meuser
Series Title: Environmental Pollution
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9328-8
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2010
Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-481-9327-1Published: 05 August 2010
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-3291-9Published: 13 October 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-90-481-9328-8Published: 23 July 2010
Series ISSN: 1566-0745
Series E-ISSN: 2215-1702
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 320
Topics: Sedimentology, Pollution, general, Popular Science, general, Soil Science & Conservation, Terrestrial Pollution, Urban Ecology