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Science --- Hygiene. Public health. Protection --- Radiotherapy. Isotope therapy --- Environmental protection. Environmental technology --- Pedology --- Biotechnology --- bodemkunde --- stralingshygiëne --- bodembescherming --- farmacologie --- wetenschap --- biotechnologie --- milieuzorg --- wetenschappen --- milieutechnologie --- milieubeheer --- milieuanalyse

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Pédologie --- Sols --- Aspect de l'environnement --- Analyse --- Composition --- Pédogénèse --- Utilisation des terres --- Propriété physicochimique du sol --- Chimie du sol --- soil chemistry --- Soil sciences --- soil genesis --- Soil resources --- land use --- Environmental impact --- soil chemicophysical properties --- soil fertility --- world --- Pédologie - Manuels d'enseignement supérieur --- Sols - Aspect de l'environnement - Manuels d'enseignement supérieur --- Sols - Analyse - Problèmes et exercices --- Sols - Composition - Problèmes et exercices

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This proceedings volume focuses on different aspects of environmental assessment, monitoring, and management of urban and technogenic soils. Soils of Urban, Industrial, Traffic, Mining and Military Areas (SUITMAs) differ substantially from their natural zonal counterparts in their physical, chemical and biological features, their performed functions, and supported services. This book discusses the monitoring, analysis and assessment of the effects of urbanization on soil functions and services. Further, it helps to find solutions to the environmental consequences of urbanization and discusses best management practices such as management and design of urban green infrastructure, waste management, water purification, and reclamation and remediation of contaminated soils in the context of sustainable urban development. The book includes thematic sections corresponding to 14 sessions of the SUITMA 9 congress, covering broad topics that highlight the importance of urban soils for society and environment and summarizing the lessons learned and existing methodologies in analyses, assessments, and modeling of anthropogenic effects on soils and the related ecological risks. This proceedings book appeals to scientists and students as well as practitioners in soil and environmental science, urban planning, geography and related disciplines, and provides useful information for policy makers and other stakeholders working in urban management and greenery.

Soil science --- Soil conservation. --- Urban Ecology. --- Sustainable architecture. --- Sustainable development. --- Endangered ecosystems. --- Soil Science & Conservation. --- Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns). --- Sustainable Architecture/Green Buildings. --- Sustainable Development. --- Ecosystems. --- Threatened ecosystems --- Biotic communities --- Nature conservation --- Development, Sustainable --- Ecologically sustainable development --- Economic development, Sustainable --- Economic sustainability --- ESD (Ecologically sustainable development) --- Smart growth --- Sustainable development --- Sustainable economic development --- Economic development --- Eco-architecture --- Environmentally conscious architecture --- Environmentally friendly architecture --- Green architecture --- Green building design --- Green design (Buildings) --- Sustainable design (Buildings) --- Architecture --- Sustainable design --- Cities and towns --- Urban ecology --- Urban environment --- Social ecology --- Sociology, Urban --- Conservation of soil --- Erosion control, Soil --- Soil erosion --- Soil erosion control --- Soils --- Agricultural conservation --- Soil management --- Environmental aspects --- Control --- Prevention --- Conservation --- Soil science. --- Urban geography. --- Urban ecology (Biology). --- Biocenoses --- Biocoenoses --- Biogeoecology --- Biological communities --- Biomes --- Biotic community ecology --- Communities, Biotic --- Community ecology, Biotic --- Ecological communities --- Ecosystems --- Natural communities --- Ecology --- Population biology --- City ecology (Biology) --- Geography --- Pedology (Soil science) --- Agriculture --- Earth sciences

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This is the first book on global agromining/phytomining technology. It presents the complete metal farming or agromining chain; an emerging technology expected to be transformative in the extraction of resources of those elements not accessible by traditional mining techniques. Meeting the demand for critical minerals (rare earth elements, platinum group elements, nickel cobalt) is increasingly difficult in the 21st century due to resource depletion and geopolitical factors. Agromining uses hyperaccumulator plants as “metal crops” farmed on sub-economic soils or mineral waste to obtain valuable elements. This book, which follows the metal farming chain, starts with the latest information on the global distribution and ecology of hyperaccumulator plants, biogeochemical pathways, the influence of rhizosphere microbes, as well as aspects of propagation and conservation of these unusual plants. It then presents the state of the art in new tools for identifying hyperaccumulator plants and for understanding their physiology and molecular biology. It goes on to describe the agronomy of “metal crops,” and opportunities for incorporating agromining into rehabilitation and mine closure, including test-cases of nickel, cobalt, selenium, thallium, rare earth elements and PGEs. Finally, it concludes with an overview of the latest developments in the processing of bio-ores and associated products. This book is edited and authored by the pioneers in the field who have been at the foreground of the development of agromining over the past three decades. It is timely as agromining is now at a pivotal point in its development with rapid expansion of activities in the field around the globe. As such it is of interest to environmental professionals in the minerals industry, government regulators and academics.

Rocks. Minerals --- Biogeography --- General biochemistry --- Biochemical engineering --- mineralogie --- biogeografie --- biochemie --- planten --- moleculaire biologie

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This second and expanded edition of the first book on agromining (phytomining) presents a comprehensive overview of the metal farming & recovery of the agromining production chain. Agromining is an emerging technology that aims to transform the extraction of sources of target elements not accessible by traditional mining and processing techniques. Agromining, which is based on sustainable development, uses hyperaccumulator plants as 'metal crops' farmed on sub-economic soils or minerals wastes to obtain valuable target elements. This volume is edited and authored by the pioneers in the rapidly expanding field of agromining and presents the latest insights and developments in the field. This book provides in-depth information on the global distribution and ecology of hyperaccumulator plants, their biogeochemical pathways, the influence of rhizosphere microbes, the physiology and molecular biology of hyperaccumulation, as well as aspects of propagation and conservation of these unusual plants. It describes the agronomy of metal crops and opportunities for incorporating agromining into rehabilitation and mine closure, including test cases for agromining of nickel, cobalt, manganese, arsenic, selenium, cadmium, zinc, thallium, rare earth elements and platinum group elements. Since the first edition was published, there have successful nickel agromining field trials in the tropics (in Malaysia and Guatemala), and these are presented in a dedicated case study chapter. Other new chapters focus on the processing of bio-ore for elements other than nickel, such as rare earth elements and cadmium, and on agromining from industrial wastes such as tailings, and industrial by-products and sites. Furthermore, the book features two new chapters that provide a comprehensive assessment of accumulation a very wide range elements from the Periodic Table in various plant species around the globe, and a chapter on practical methods for discovery of hyperaccumulator plant species in the field and in the herbarium. This book is of interest to environmental professionals in the minerals industry, government regulators, and academics.

Relation between energy and economics --- Environmental protection. Environmental technology --- Biotechnology --- energiebeheer (technologie) --- energiemanagement (economie) --- energiebeleid --- energie-economie --- biotechnologie --- milieutechnologie --- bindingen (chemie)