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Type: | Journal article |
Title: | Incorporating soil ecosystem services into urban planning: status, challenges and opportunities |
Author: | Teixeira da Silva, R. Fleskens, L. van Delden, H. van der Ploeg, M. |
Citation: | Landscape Ecology, 2018; 33(7):1087-1102 |
Publisher: | Springer Nature |
Issue Date: | 2018 |
ISSN: | 0921-2973 1572-9761 |
Statement of Responsibility: | Ricardo Teixeira da Silva, Luuk Fleskens, Hedwig van Delden, Martine van der Ploeg |
Abstract: | Context: Traditionally soils have not received much attention in urban planning. For this, tools are needed that can both be understood both by soil scientists and urban planners. Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to enhance the role of soil knowledge in urban planning practice, through the following objectives: (1) identifying the role soil plays in recent urban plans; (2) analysing the ecosystem services and indicators used in soil science in an urban context; and (3) inferring the main challenges and opportunities to integrate soil into urban planning. Methods: Seven urban plans and reports of world cities that include sustainability goals were analysed using text-mining and qualitative analysis, with a critical view on the inclusion of soil-related concepts. Secondly, the contribution of soil science to urban planning was assessed with an overview of case studies in the past decade that focus on soil-related ecosystem services in urban context. Results: The results show an overall weak attention to soil and soil-related ecosystem services in the implementation and monitoring phases of urban plans. The majority of soil science case studies uses a haphazard approach to measure ecosystem service indicators which may not capture the ecosystem services appropriately and hence lack relevance for urban planning. Conclusions: Even though the most urban plans assessed recognize soil as a key resource, most of them fail to integrate indicators to measure or monitor soil-related functions. There is a need to develop soil-related ecosystem services that can be easily integrated and understood by other fields. |
Keywords: | Soil; ecosystem services; urban planning; sustainable development; integrated planning |
Rights: | © The Author(s) 2018. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. |
DOI: | 10.1007/s10980-018-0652-x |
Published version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10980-018-0652-x |
Appears in Collections: | Aurora harvest 8 Civil and Environmental Engineering publications |
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