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  • SUITMA 9: Urbanization — Challenges and Opportunities for Soil Functions and Ecosystem Services
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Abstract

Purpose

Journal of Soils and Sediments publishes the main outcomes of SUITMA 9 Conference in its Special Issue. SUITMA (Soils of Urban, Industrial, Traffic, Mining and Military Areas) working group organizes conferences biannually all over the world. The ninth conference organized in Moscow in May 2017 involved more than 215 speakers from 25 countries, whose presentations focused on challenges and opportunities of urbanization for soil functions and ecosystem services.

Materials and methods

The main outcomes of SUITMA 9 were analyzed in comparison to the previous SUIMTA conferences and the main topics were distinguished. Manuscripts accepted for publishing in the Special Issue were reviewed and presented.

Results and discussion

Comparison of the topics highlighted in different special issues highlighted the evolution of the SUITMA studies from fundamental morphological descriptions and classifications to applied studies on soil engineering, assessment of SUITMA functions and ecosystem services.

Conclusions

The manuscripts accepted to the Special Issue covered included various case studies of SUITMA ecosystem services (e.g. global and local climate regulation, biodiversity maintenance and improvement, nutrients balance and recreation) and disservices (e.g. pollution by heavy metals, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and sulfur). The increasing role of SUITMA studies for urban management and decision making was concluded.

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Acknowledgments

As guest editors, we would like to express our gratitude to the authors for their presentations at the conference and for their contribution to this issue and more generally to the understanding of the complex processes that occur in urban environments. Viacheslav Vasenev would like to thank “RUDN University program 5-100” for support.

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  1. Department of Landscape Design and Sustainable Ecosystems, Agrarian-Technological Institute, RUDN University, Moscow, Russia

    Viacheslav I. Vasenev & Ramilla A. Hajiaghayeva

  2. Laboratoire Sols et Environnement, Université de Lorraine, Nancy, France

    Jean Louis Morel

  3. Chair for Ecohydrology & Landscape Evaluation, Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

    Thomas Nehls

  4. USDA-NRCS, Somerset, NJ, USA

    Richard K. Shaw

  5. Department of Environmental Horticulture, The University of Seoul, Seoul, South Korea

    Kye John Kim

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Vasenev, V.I., Morel, J.L., Nehls, T. et al. Preface. J Soils Sediments 19, 3123–3126 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11368-019-02389-1

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