Overview
- Offers a highly interdisciplinary resource on urbanization and its environmental consequences with a focus on urban soils and ecosystems
- Aimed at a broad and multidisciplinary audience from research, municipal services, agencies, professionals, and policy-makers
- Includes numerous case studies from European cities
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Springer Geography (SPRINGERGEOGR)
Included in the following conference series:
- ICLASCSD: International Conference on Landscape Architecture to Support City Sustainable Development
Conference proceedings info: ICLASCSD 2016.
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About this book
Megapolises are complex ecosystems, and their air and water quality, vegetation and soils are exposed to anthropogenic influences. The book discusses advanced approaches and techniques to monitor, model and assess environmental consequences and risks in megapolises and offers solutions to the environmental problems of modern megapolises. It also presents successful, sustainable urban-development projects from Europe and beyond, including the management and design of green infrastructure, waste management, run-off purification and remediation of urban soils.
Focusing on urban soils and ecosystems, the book is intended for experts in various fields of geography, urban studies and planning, and environmental sciences, including those in the scientific and research community, municipal services, environmental protection agencies, stakeholders working in urban management and greenery, landscape architects, civil engineers and policy-makers.
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Keywords
- Urbanization
- Sustainable urban development
- Pollution mitigation
- Environmental management in urban areas
- Ecosystem services
- Soil functions
- Landscape design and planning
- Urban Soils
- Urban Pollution
- Urban Green Infrastructure
- Urbanization effect on air quality and surface water
- urban geography and urbanism
Table of contents (18 papers)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Megacities 2050: Environmental Consequences of Urbanization
Book Subtitle: Proceedings of the VI International Conference on Landscape Architecture to Support City Sustainable Development
Editors: Viacheslav I. Vasenev, Elvira Dovletyarova, Zhongqi Chen, Riccardo Valentini
Series Title: Springer Geography
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70557-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-70556-9Published: 15 November 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-88960-3Published: 25 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-70557-6Published: 14 November 2017
Series ISSN: 2194-315X
Series E-ISSN: 2194-3168
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 184
Number of Illustrations: 51 b/w illustrations
Topics: Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns), Sustainable Development, Urban Ecology, Environmental Management, Soil Science & Conservation, Pollution, general