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Urban areas, human health and technosols for the green deal

Authors aim to carry out a bibliographic review as an initial approach to state of the art related to the quality of urban soils, as well as its possible link with human health. This concern arises from the need to highlight the consequences that soil could face, derived from the growth and aging of...

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Autores principales: Rodríguez-Espinosa, T., Navarro-Pedreño, J., Gómez-Lucas, I., Jordán-Vidal, M. M., Bech-Borras, J., Zorpas, A. A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Netherlands 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8093134/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33945056
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10653-021-00953-8
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author Rodríguez-Espinosa, T.
Navarro-Pedreño, J.
Gómez-Lucas, I.
Jordán-Vidal, M. M.
Bech-Borras, J.
Zorpas, A. A.
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Navarro-Pedreño, J.
Gómez-Lucas, I.
Jordán-Vidal, M. M.
Bech-Borras, J.
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description Authors aim to carry out a bibliographic review as an initial approach to state of the art related to the quality of urban soils, as well as its possible link with human health. This concern arises from the need to highlight the consequences that soil could face, derived from the growth and aging of the population, as well as its predicted preference for urban settlement. Urban development may pose a challenge to the health of urban soils, due to degradative processes that it entails, such as land take, sealing, contamination or compaction. A healthy soil is the one which maintains the capacity to support ecosystem services, so it can provide numerous benefits to human health and well-being (carbon sequestration, protection against flooding, retention and immobilization of pollutants and a growth media for vegetation and food production). This article addresses threats facing urban soils, the strategies put forward by the European Union to deal with them, as well as the issues that require further attention. Greening cities could be a consensual solution, so authors analyze whether soils of cities are ready for that challenge and what resources need to maintain soil ecosystem functions. This review proposes to use made by waste Technosols for a sustainable green city. Although the use of Technosols as a type of soil is very recent, the interest of the scientific community in this field continues to grow.
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spelling pubmed-80931342021-05-05 Urban areas, human health and technosols for the green deal Rodríguez-Espinosa, T. Navarro-Pedreño, J. Gómez-Lucas, I. Jordán-Vidal, M. M. Bech-Borras, J. Zorpas, A. A. Environ Geochem Health Original Paper Authors aim to carry out a bibliographic review as an initial approach to state of the art related to the quality of urban soils, as well as its possible link with human health. This concern arises from the need to highlight the consequences that soil could face, derived from the growth and aging of the population, as well as its predicted preference for urban settlement. Urban development may pose a challenge to the health of urban soils, due to degradative processes that it entails, such as land take, sealing, contamination or compaction. A healthy soil is the one which maintains the capacity to support ecosystem services, so it can provide numerous benefits to human health and well-being (carbon sequestration, protection against flooding, retention and immobilization of pollutants and a growth media for vegetation and food production). This article addresses threats facing urban soils, the strategies put forward by the European Union to deal with them, as well as the issues that require further attention. Greening cities could be a consensual solution, so authors analyze whether soils of cities are ready for that challenge and what resources need to maintain soil ecosystem functions. This review proposes to use made by waste Technosols for a sustainable green city. Although the use of Technosols as a type of soil is very recent, the interest of the scientific community in this field continues to grow. Springer Netherlands 2021-05-04 2021 /pmc/articles/PMC8093134/ /pubmed/33945056 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10653-021-00953-8 Text en © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature B.V. 2021 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.
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Rodríguez-Espinosa, T.
Navarro-Pedreño, J.
Gómez-Lucas, I.
Jordán-Vidal, M. M.
Bech-Borras, J.
Zorpas, A. A.
Urban areas, human health and technosols for the green deal
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title_short Urban areas, human health and technosols for the green deal
title_sort urban areas, human health and technosols for the green deal
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8093134/
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