Soils in Urban Ecosystem

Urban soil study is a new frontier of soil science. Urban soils research is challenging due to complexity of classification, spatial-temporal variability, exposure to pollution and the predominant effect of the anthropogenic factor on soil formation. Management of urban soils and green spaces is an important aspect for developing sustainable spaces. 

Chapter 1. Urban Soil- A Review on Historical Perspective.- Chapter 2. Classification and functional characteristics of urban soil.- Chapter 3. Characteristics and functions of Urban Soils.- Chapter 4. The (urban) soil microbiome and the ecosystem services and functions.- Chapter 5.  Urban soil carbon: processes and patterns.- Chapter 6. Nitrogen cycling processes in urban soils: stocks, fluxes and microbial transformations.- Chapter 7. Urban Soils and Their Management: A multidisciplinary approach.- Chapter 8. Soil quality: concepts, importance, indicators, and measurement.- Chapter 9. Digital Soil Map: an applied tool to Determine Land-use alterations.- Chapter 10.Soil conservation using mechanical and non-mechanical methods.- Chapter 11. Proximal sensing of soil pollution by heavy metals using a portable X-ray fluorescence analyzer in Subarctic industrial barren: limitations and perspectives.- Chapter 12. Urban Smart Sustainability in Tehran: LIPSOR Approach for Transformation.- Chapter 13. A system of the soil mapping and assessment relating to environmentally sensitive areas in cities.- Chapter 14. Heterotrophic and autotrophic components of soil respiration in Russian subtaiga and forest-steppe zones measured by substrate-induced respiration technique.- Chapter 15. Unsaturated Properties of Singapore Urban Soils.

Dr. Subhadip Ghosh is presently a Senior Researcher (Urban Ecosystems) at Centre for Urban Greenery and Ecology (Research), National Parks Board, Singapore.

Dr Viacheslav Vasenev is associate professor at the Department of Landscape design and sustainable ecosystems in RUDN University (Russia)

Dr. H Pathak is presently the Director of ICAR-National Institute of Abiotic Stress Management (NIASM) Baramati, Pune, Maharashtra. He was former director of ICAR-National Rice Research Institute (NRRI), Cuttack, Odisha and former Professor of ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI), New Delhi. 

Dr Visnu D Rajput is presently working as Leading Researcher (Highly Qualified Specialist) at Southern Federal University,Rostov-on-Don, Russia.