Constructing Soils to Mitigate Land Occupation by Urban Expansion and Metabolism to Improve Healthy Cities
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. What Is a Technosol?
3. Making Technosols
4. Technosols, Wastes and Policy Makers
5. Technosol Functions for Healthy Cities
- provide food and biomass production, including in agriculture and forestry [55];
- absorb, store and filter water and transform nutrients and substances, thus protecting groundwater bodies [56];
- provide the basis for life and biodiversity, including habitats, species and genes;
- provide a physical platform and cultural services for humans and their activities [59];
- act as a source of raw materials [33];
- constitute an archive of geological, geomorphological and archaeological heritage [60].
6. Technosol and Ecosystem Services
7. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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Other Soils: | |
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1. with all of the following: a. one or both of the following: i. having ≥20% (by volume, weighted average, related to the whole soil) artefacts in the upper 100 cm from the soil surface or to a limiting layer, whichever is shallower; or ii. having a layer, ≥10 cm thick and starting ≤50 cm from the soil surface, with ≥80% (by volume, weighted average, related to the whole soil) artefacts; and b. not having a layer containing artefacts that qualifies as an argic, duric, ferralic, ferric, fragic, hydragric, natric, nitic, petrocalcic, petroduric, petrogypsic, petroplinthic, pisoplinthic, plinthic, spodic or vertic horizon starting ≤100 cm from the soil surface, unless buried; and c. not having a limiting layer, unless consisting of artefacts, starting ≤10 cm from the soil surface; or | |
2. having a continuous, very slowly permeable to impermeable, constructed geomembrane of any thickness or technic hard material starting ≤100 cm from the soil surface. |
Artesols | |
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Name | Artesols (from Latin phrase arte factum made with skill). Formative element: art. |
Reason | Soils in the Artesols order form in human-altered soils or in human-transported material following intentional human activity. They are made with skill and many contain artifacts that are also made with skill. The art formative element starts with a vowel and fits well linguistically with the suborder formative elements. The art formative element is different enough from existing formative elements to avoid confusion in pronunciation. |
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Rodríguez-Espinosa, T.; Pérez-Gimeno, A.; Almendro-Candel, M.B.; Navarro-Pedreño, J. Constructing Soils to Mitigate Land Occupation by Urban Expansion and Metabolism to Improve Healthy Cities. Land 2024, 13, 1383. https://doi.org/10.3390/land13091383
Rodríguez-Espinosa T, Pérez-Gimeno A, Almendro-Candel MB, Navarro-Pedreño J. Constructing Soils to Mitigate Land Occupation by Urban Expansion and Metabolism to Improve Healthy Cities. Land. 2024; 13(9):1383. https://doi.org/10.3390/land13091383
Chicago/Turabian StyleRodríguez-Espinosa, Teresa, Ana Pérez-Gimeno, María Belén Almendro-Candel, and Jose Navarro-Pedreño. 2024. "Constructing Soils to Mitigate Land Occupation by Urban Expansion and Metabolism to Improve Healthy Cities" Land 13, no. 9: 1383. https://doi.org/10.3390/land13091383