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Topic 3.5 — Soil sealing

Sources and additional reading

  • DIRECTIVE (EU) 2025/2360 — Soil Monitoring Law.
  • European Environment Agency (2021). Land take and land degradation in functional urban areas (No 17/2021).
  • Joint Research Centre, European Soil Data Centre. Soil sealing theme.
  • O'Riordan et al. (2021). The effects of sealing on urban soil carbon and nutrients. SOIL, 7, 661–675.
  • Prokop, Jobstmann & Schönbauer (2011). Overview of best practices for limiting soil sealing or mitigating its effects in EU-27.
  • RECARE (2018). Policy Brief Soil Sealing and Land take.
  • Scalenghe & Marsan (2009). The anthropogenic sealing of soils in urban areas. Landscape and Urban Planning, 90, 1–10.
  • Tobias et al. (2018). Soil sealing and unsealing: State of the art and examples. Land Degrad. Dev..