The share of urban population of the world is expected to reach 75% by around 2050. The
need to offer within the cities soil services rose awareness of keeping soil functions in cities …

The sixth edition of the Polish Soil Classification (SGP6) aims to maintain soil classification
in Poland as a modem scientific system that reflects current scientific knowledge …

Purpose Despite the many studies of urban soils, a comparative analysis for cities of a
similar size has not yet been conducted. Thus, the aim of this review paper was to compare …

ABSTRACT The World Reference Base for Soil Resources (WRB) is an international soil
classification system for naming soils and creating legends for soil maps. The currently valid …

Soil radioactivity is a poorly recognized form of land degradation; however, there are regions
all around the world where it can be dangerous to the environment and human health. The …

For a long time, the soils covering areas strongly transformed by human were ignored in
scientifi c discourse. Also, practice did not care much about these soils because of their …

Purpose In the course of our investigation, we analyzed physical and chemical parameters
as well as heavy metal contents in the urban soils of Sopron, Hungary. Our aim was to …

For hundreds of years, humans have been a soil formation factor. With the recent industrial
development of vast territories, the formation of soils in technogenic and postanthropogenic …

Urban anthropogenic soils (UASs) are soils formed by:(1) Metapedogenesis, in which
human additions of organic matter transform a pre-existing natural soil into a new profile …

This article examines the presence of urban soil buried under anthropogenic debris in an air-
museum park in the Madrid city center (Spain), and highlights the particularities of this …