A Systematic Review and Characterization of the Major and Most Studied Urban Soil Threats in the European Union
2024
Binner, Hannah | Wojda, Piotr | Yunta, Felipe | Breure, Timo | Schievano, Andrea | Massaro, Emanuele | Jones, Arwyn | Newell, Jennifer | Paradelo, Remigio | Popescu Boajă, Iustina | Baltrėnaitė-Gedienė, Edita | Tuttolomondo, Teresa | Iacuzzi, Nicolò | Bondi, Giulia | Zupanc, Vesna | Mamy, Laure | Pacini, Lorenza | de Feudis, Mauro | Cardelli, Valeria | Kicińska, Alicja | Stock, Michael, J | Liu, Hongdou | Demiraj, Erdona | Schillaci, Calogero | University College Cork (UCC) | European Commission - Joint Research Centre [Ispra] (JRC) | Queen's University [Belfast] (QUB) | Universidade de Santiago de Compostella (USC) | Geological Institute of Romania, Bucureşti, Romania | Vilniaus Gedimino technikos universitetas ; Vilniaus Gedimino technikos universitetas | Università degli studi di Palermo - University of Palermo | Crops, Environment and Land Use Programme ; Irish Agriculture and Food Development Authority | Ecologie fonctionnelle et écotoxicologie des agroécosystèmes (ECOSYS) ; AgroParisTech-Université Paris-Saclay-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE) | Laboratoire de géologie de l'ENS (LGENS) ; Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Département des Géosciences - ENS Paris ; École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL) ; Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL) ; Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL) | University of Bologna | Polytechnic University of Marche [Ancona, Italy] / Università Politecnica delle Marche [Ancona, Italia] (UNIVPM) | AGH University of Science and Technology [Krakow, PL] (AGH UST) | Trinity College Dublin | Centre for planetary Health and Food Security, Griffith University | Agricultural University of Tirana
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Show more [+] Less [-]English. There is an urgent need by the European Union to establish baseline levels for many widespread pollutants and to set out specific levels for these under the Zero pollution action plan. To date, few systematic reviews, superseded by bibliometric analyses, have explored this issue. Even less research has been carried out to compare the efficacy of these two data extraction approaches. This study aims to address these two issues by i) constructing an inventory of the available information on urban soils, highlighting evidence gaps and measuring compliance with the Zero pollution action plan, and by ii) comparing the methods and results of these two data extraction approaches. Through Scopus and Web of Science databases, peer-reviewed articles using the terms urban soil in combination with specific urban soil threats and/or challenges were included. Notably, both approaches retrieved a similar number of initial articles overall, while the bibliometric analysis removed fewer duplicates and excluded fewer articles overall, leaving the total number of articles included in each approach as: 603 articles in the systematic review and 2372 articles in the bibliometric analysis. Nevertheless, both approaches identified the two main urban soil threats and/or challenges to be linked to soil organic carbon and/or heavy metals. This study gives timely input into the Zero pollution action plan and makes recommendations to stakeholders within the urban context.
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