The right fit: Acceptance of nature-based solutionsacross European cities | Using oral bioaccessibility measurements to refine risk assessment of potentially toxic elements in topsoils across an urban area | New Green Infrastructure For European Cities: Multiple Ways For Improvement And Climate Change Adaptation |
| Ulrike Pröbstl-Haider, Alice Wanner, Magdalena Feilhammer, Nina Mostegl, Kornelia Dabrowska, The right fit: Acceptance of nature-based solutions across European cities, Landscape and Urban Planning, Volume 252, 2024, 105189, ISSN 0169-2046, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2024.105189 European cities consistently seek to improve urban environments for their residents, yet often struggle to find solutions to address urban issues while engaging citizens. The research from the project UPSURGE is based on… | Tatiana Cocerva, Matthew Robb, Ada Wong, Rory Doherty, Jennifer Newell, Ulrich Ofterdinger, Manus Carey, Mark Cave, Siobhan F. Cox, Using oral bioaccessibility measurements to refine risk assessment of potentially toxic elements in topsoils across an urban area, Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, Volume 276, 2024, 116293, ISSN 0147-6513, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoenv.2024.116293 Elevated concentrations of As, Cr, Cu, Ni, Pb, V and Zn in topsoils in Belfast, Northern Ireland have been found to exceed assessment criteria in the city and therefore may pose a risk to human health. Most generic assessment criteria (GAC) for potentially toxic elements (PTEs) in soils assume PTEs are 100% bioavailable to humans. | Alice Wanner, Ulrike Pröbstl-Haider, Magdalena Feilhammer, WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment, Vol. 260, 121 – 133, 2022, DOI: 10.2495/sc220111 The establishment and improvement of nature-based solutions (NBS) to reduce impacts by climate change and improve air quality are a challenging task for urban planning and management. Despite the great interest and willingness to improve the situation, many concerns and questions arise when… |
| Earthworms in an enhanced weathering mesocosm experiment: Effects on soil carbon sequestration, base cation exchange and soil CO2 efflux | Oral bioaccessibility trends for As, Cd, Cr, Ni, and Pb in vegetables grown in contaminated soils: A systematic review | Leveraging nature for just cities: Planning nature-based solutions in Greece |
| Arthur Vienne, Patrick Frings, Sílvia Poblador, Laura Steinwidder, Jet Rijnders, Jonas Schoelynck, Olga Vinduskova, Sara Vicca, Earthworms in an enhanced weathering mesocosm experiment: Effects on soil carbon sequestration, base cation exchange and soil CO2 efflux, Soil Biology and Biochemistry, Volume 199, 2024, 109596, ISSN 0038-0717, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2024.109596 Despite its attractiveness for long-term carbon dioxide removal (CDR), quantifying weathering and CDR rates for enhanced weathering is a significant challenge. Moreover, the role of soil organisms, such as earthworms, in enhancing silicate weathering (both physically and chemically) has been… | Newell, Jennifer, Cox, Siobhan F., Doherty, Rory, 70009, Oral bioaccessibility trends for As, Cd, Cr, Ni, and Pb in vegetables grown in contaminated soils: A systematic review, Urban Agriculture & Regional Food Systems, Urban Agric Region Food Syst., Vol.10, 1, 2575-1220, https://doi.org/10.1002/uar2.70009 Urban and peri-urban agriculture has the potential to address social, economic, and environmental issues by bringing communities together, producing low- cost food, and greening derelict locations. However, many urban and peri-urban brownfield sites have a legacy of soil metal and metalloid contamination, and… | Alice Wanner, Ulrike Pröbstl-Haider, Meike Jungnickel, Leveraging nature for just cities: Planning nature- based solutions in Greece, Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, Volume 106, 2025, 128731, ISSN 1618- 8667, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ufug.2025.128731 An unequal distribution of green areas across cities coupled with the vulnerability towards climate change and global warming is causing segregation between residents who profit from nature-based solutions’(NbS) health and wellbeing benefits and those who do not. Residential segregation in urban settings goes far beyond income and… |