Overview

Urban Soil and Water Degration, Volume Seven explores a wide breadth of emerging and state-of-the-art technologies, including comprehensive coverage of topics such as Urban sprawl, Soil degradation, Hydrological challenges in urban areas, Soil and water quality – pollutant sources and pathways, Ecosystem services in urban areas, Freshwater-related nature-based solutions in cities, Property Rights and Climate Change - land use under changing environmental conditions, Municipal planning to prevent soil and water degradation: The case of Vilnius, In between water and fires: soil degradation in a new Mediterranean peri-urban landscape, and more. Additional chapters in this release include Groundwater in Venetian area, Soil protection and hydrogeological risk assessment. A strategic planning experience in Franciacorta, Data driven approach for assessing surface runoff in separated sewage systems: Israeli Case Study, Ecological status of urban streams and riparian habitats in the Czech Republic, Soil and water degradation in urban areas from western Romania, Mapping water ecosystem services: supply and demand in Stockholm, Land degradation and water availability in Ethiopia, and The study of land use and land cover changes in the Bekéscsaba area, Hungary.

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Author:   Paulo Pereira (Professor, Environmental Management Center, Mykolas Romeris University, Lithuania) ,  Carla Sofia Ferreira (Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra, Portugal)
Publisher:   Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc
Imprint:   Academic Press Inc
Weight:   0.480kg
ISBN:  

9780128201800

ISBN 10:   0128201800
Pages:   204
Publication Date:   17 November 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Volume Editor Preface Paulo Pereira and Carla Sofia Santos Ferreira 1. Climate change and property rights: Challenges for land policy B. Ayça Ataç and Thomas Hartmann 2. Urban sprawl: Theory and practice Vito Imbrenda, Rosa Coluzzi, Leonardo Bianchini, Valerio Di Stefano and Luca Salvati 3. Hydrological challenges in urban areas Carla S.S. Ferreira, António C. Duarte, Milica Kasanin-Grubin, Marijana Kapovic-Solomun and Zahra Kalantari 4. Land and flood protection: A strategic planning experience in Franciacorta (Lombardy, Italy) Michele Pezzagno 5. Soil quality and urban sprawl: Insights from long-term patterns in the Rome metropolitan region Francesca Perrone, Francesco Gallucci, Enrico Maria Mosconi and Luca Salvati 6. Mapping and assessment of flood regulation supply and demand in Vilnius (Lithuania) Paulo Pereira, Marius Kalinauskas, Manob Das, Katažyna Bogdzevic, Miguel Inácio and Damia Barcelo 7. Mapping of ecosystem services: Supply and demand for local climate regulation and nutrient regulation services Zahra Kalantari, Samaneh Seifollahi-Aghmiuni, Farzad Vahidi Mayamey, Navid Ghajarnia and Riad Lilipaly 8. Groundwater in the Venetian area Sebastiano Trevisani, Paolo Fabbri and Pietro Daniel Omodeo

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Paulo Pereira is a full professor at the Environmental Management Center, Mykolas Romeris University, Lithuania. He holds a PhD in Physical Geography from the University of Barcelona and has previous experience working on spatial modelling of environmental variables and applying these results to sustainable landscape planning. Prof. Pereira was awarded the outstanding young scientist award from the Soil System Sciences Division (European Geoscience Union) and is one of the most influential scientists in the world in the field of environmental sciences, according to Elsevier/Stanford University. Prof. Pereira is an editor and guest editor of various journals in the field of environment and soil science. Carla Sofia Ferreira is at Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra, Portugal

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