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Urban soils as a basis for expanded ecosystem services
Citation:
Shuster, W. Urban soils as a basis for expanded ecosystem services. Building Sustainable Urban Communities from the Ground Up, State College, PA, June 07, 2018.
Impact/Purpose:
This is an invited presentation for a workshop at Penn. State U. The name of the workshop is: Building Sustainable Urban Communities from the Ground Up. This presentation will inform workshop attendees on how urban soil assessments underpin a fair judging of urban landscape hydrology, and its role in rendering ecosystem services at the community level.
Description:
In the context of urban water cycles, we can use urban landscapes and their underlying soils as a sort of passive green infrastructure to render hydrologic ecosystem services. Cities are dynamic social-ecological systems, where interactions between human needs and natural resources remain in a state of tension.