Green Technologies and Infrastructure to Enhance Urban Ecosystem Services

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Smart and Sustainable Cities: From Environmental Threats Towards Nature Based Solutions and Sustainable Management

   • Viacheslav Vasenev, E. A. Dovletyarova, I. Veretelnikova, C. Calfapietra, Z. Cheng, M. Fatiev et al.

   Pages 1-3

3. Assessing Soil Lead Exposure for Gardeners in New York City – A Pilot Study

   • Michael T. Schmeltz, Jean A. Grassman, Zhongqi Cheng

   Pages 4-11

4. Assessment of Soil Pollution with Heavy Metals in Urban Areas of the Kola Arctic

   • Natalya V. Saltan, Ekaterina A. Sviatkovskaya

   Pages 12-17

5. Soil-Ecological Assessment of the M.I. Kalinin Park Ufa City, Russia

   • A. R. Suleymanov, R. R. Suleymanov, E. V. Abakumov, A. F. Nigmatullin, R. A. Khamidullin

   Pages 18-28

6. The Effect of Sealing on Soil Carbon Stocks in New Moscow

   • Olga Romzaykina, Viacheslav Vasenev, Diana Andrianova, Alexander Neaman, Dmitriy Gosse

   Pages 29-36

7. Biological Activity of Sealed Soils of Rostov-on-Don

   • S. N. Gorbov, A. V. Gorovtsov, O. S. Bezuglova, I. S. Aleshukina, F. D. Ivanov, P. N. Skpipnikov

   Pages 37-44

8. Effects of the Road Deicing Practices on Gas Exchange Parameters in Urban Lawn Ecosystems

   • O. Gavrichkova, R. A. Hajiaghayeva, D. Liberati, E. Pallozzi, C. Calfapietra, Viacheslav Vasenev

   Pages 45-51

9. Influence of Environmental Factors on the Development and Survival of Toxocara Sp. Eggs in Various Soil Substrates

   • Viktoria V. Erofeeva, Viacheslav Vasenev

   Pages 52-57

10. The Condition of Plantations and Significant Harmful Insects of “Forest Experimental Dacha” RSAU – MAA named after K.A. Timiryazev in Environment of a Megalopolis

    • Sergey Volkov, Tatyana Fedorova, Varvara Byakhova

    Pages 58-65

11. Modeling Technology for Assessment of Summer Thermal Comfort Conditions of Arctic City on Microscale: Application for City of Apatity

    • Olga Gommershtadt, Pavel Konstantinov, Mikhail Varentsov, Alexander Baklanov

    Pages 66-75

12. Agrochemical State and Vertical Organization of Alluviated Soils of Saint Petersburg’s 300th Anniversary Park, Russia

    • Ivan Alekseev, Evgeny Abakumov, Ekaterina Maksimova

    Pages 76-87

13. Fungal and Bacterial Respiration in Urban Technosols vs. Natural Soils

    • Kristina Ivashchenko, Nadezhda Ananyeva, Sofia Sushko, Anna Paltseva, Alexandra Seleznyova, Vadim Plushchikov et al.

    Pages 88-99

14. Mass-Spectrometric Study on Biological and Technogenic Fractionation of Stable Isotopes of Light Elements in Components of C3-Plants Grown in Climatic Conditions of Modern Natural Ecosystems

    • A. Kolesnov, R. Abramovich, M. Zenina, S. Tsimbalaev

    Pages 100-110

15. The Use of DNA Barcoding and Metabarcoding for Food and Environment Quality Control

    • A. V. Kokina, M. Y. Syromyatnikov, O. V. Savinkova, V. N. Popov

    Pages 111-124

16. Soil Electroconductivity as a Proxy to Monitor the Desertification in the Hungry Steppe (Uzbekistan)

    • Viacheslav Vasenev, Irina Veretelnikova, Inna Brianskaia, Sofiya Demina, Olga Romzaykina, Bakhtiyor Pulatov et al.

    Pages 125-132

17. Assessment of Within-Forest Variability in Albeluvisol Quality in an Urban Forest Ecosystem for the Northern Part of the Moscow Megalopolis

    • I. I. Vasenev, A. A. Avilova, M. V. Tikhonova, S. J. Ermakov

    Pages 133-144

18. Noise Reduction Properties of Urban Green Spaces in Saint-Petersburg

    • Elena Koptseva, Anton Zaytsev

    Pages 145-150

19. Sustainable Urban Drainage Designing Approach for São Paulo and Humid Sub-tropical Climates

    • Carme Machí Castañer, Paulo Renato Mesquita Pellegrino

    Pages 151-162

20. Relict Floodplain Forests as a Refuge for Rare and Protected Species Within the City

    • I. I. Istomina, M. E. Pavlova, A. A. Terekhin, T. P. Meer

    Pages 163-172

These proceedings of the Smart and Sustainable Cities Conference (SSC) in Moscow from May 23 to 26, 2018 addresses important questions regarding the global trend of urbanization. What are the environmental consequences of megacities’ expansion? What smart solutions can make life in cities safe, comfortable and environmentally friendly? It is projected that 70% of the global population will live in cities by 2050, and as such the book describes how this rapid urbanization will alter the face of the world.
 
Focusing on solutions for the environmental problems of modern megapolises, it discusses advanced approaches and smart technologies to monitor, model and assess the environmental consequences and risks. The contributors present examples of successful sustainable urban development, including management and design of green infrastructure, waste management, run-off purification and remediation of urban soils.
 
The SSC conference and its proceedings offer a valuable contribution to sustainable urban development, and are of interest to the scientific and research community, municipal services, environmental protection agencies, landscape architects, civil engineers, policy makers and other stakeholders in urban management and greenery.

• Sustainable urban development
• Green infrastructure
• Pollution mitigation
• Enviornmental mangement
• Urban ecosystem services
• Soil functions
• Landscape design and planning
• Urbanization
• Urban climate
• landscape/regional and urban planning
• Environmental Geography

• RUDN University , Moscow, Russia

  Viacheslav Vasenev, Elvira Dovletyarova

• City University of New York , Brooklyn, USA

  Zhongqi Cheng

• DIBAF, University of Tuscia, Viterbo, Italy

  Riccardo Valentini

• National Research Council (CNR), Institute of Research on Terrestrial Ecosystems (IRET), Porano, Italy

  Carlo Calfapietra

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