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Conference poster
Impacts of industry on environmental quality of urban soils
Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers (Washington, DC, 2010)
2010
Abstract
Surface horizons of urban soils have been shown to be polluted with trace metals and organic pollutants, especially in old and large cities such as Naples, Seville, Beijing. The influence of this pollution on human health is strong and well documented. The present study assessed surface soil pollution in a small city (Pensacola, FL, population 60,000) and evaluated what factors influence the pollution. The study focused on public places because the interaction between humans and soils is more intense there than in other urban settings.
Pensacola was selected for the study because it has many water, sediment, and air pollution issues but soil pollution has been little studied in the region, with the exception of soils at former industrial sites
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- Title
- Impacts of industry on environmental quality of urban soils
- Resource Type
- Conference poster
- Conference
- Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers (Washington, DC, 2010)
- Format
- pdf
- Identifiers
- 99380090643606600
- Academic Unit
- Earth and Environmental Sciences; Hal Marcus College of Science and Engineering
- Language
- English