Helmut Meuser

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Contaminated Urban Soils (2010)Hardcover - 2010, 5 August 2010

Contaminated Urban Soils (2010)
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Part of Series
Environmental Pollution
Print Length
320 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Springer
Date Published
5 Aug 2010
ISBN-10
9048193273
ISBN-13
9789048193271

Description

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.

Product Details

Author:
Helmut Meuser
Book Edition:
2010
Book Format:
Hardcover
Country of Origin:
NL
Date Published:
5 August 2010
Dimensions:
23.39 x 15.6 x 2.06 cm
Genre:
Ecology
ISBN-10:
9048193273
ISBN-13:
9789048193271
Language:
English
Location:
Dordrecht
Pages:
320
Publisher:
Weight:
653.17 gm

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