The urban lead (Pb) burden in humans, animals and the natural environment

R Levin, CLZ Vieira, MH Rosenbaum, K Bischoff… - Environmental …, 2021 - Elsevier
Centuries of human activities, particularly housing and transportation practices from the late
19th century through the 1980's, dispersed hundreds of millions of tons of lead into our …

[HTML][HTML] Risk factors and assessment strategies for the evaluation of human or environmental risk from metal (loid) s–A focus on Ireland

R Nag, SM O'Rourke, E Cummins - Science of the Total Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
Elevated human exposure to metals and metalloids (metal (loid) s) may lead to acute
sickness and pose a severe threat to human health. The human body is exposed to metal …

[HTML][HTML] A citizen science approach to identifying trace metal contamination risks in urban gardens

MP Taylor, CF Isley, KL Fry, X Liu, MM Gillings… - Environment …, 2021 - Elsevier
We launched the VegeSafe program in 2013 to assist Australians concerned about
exposure to contaminants in their soils and gardens. VegeSafe analyses garden soils …

Healthy soils: The backbone of productive, safe and sustainable urban agriculture

MJ Salomon, TR Cavagnaro - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2022 - Elsevier
The increasing urbanization of an ever-growing global population is coinciding with major
global challenges that are threatening our food security. Urban agriculture is as a multi …

Increasing city resilience through urban agriculture: Challenges and solutions in the Global North

BZ Gulyas, JL Edmondson - Sustainability, 2021 - mdpi.com
Cities, which now host the majority of the global population, are vulnerable to environmental
and socio-economic disturbances, which are likely to increase in number and severity in the …

Cannabis contaminants limit pharmacological use of cannabidiol

Z Montoya, M Conroy, BD Vanden Heuvel… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
For nearly a century, Cannabis has been stigmatized and criminalized across the globe, but
in recent years, there has been a growing interest in Cannabis due to the therapeutic …

Lead poisoning of backyard chickens: Implications for urban gardening and food production

T Yazdanparast, V Strezov, P Wieland, YJ Lai… - Environmental …, 2022 - Elsevier
Increased interest in backyard food production has drawn attention to the risks associated
with urban trace element contamination, in particular lead (Pb) that was used in abundance …

Edible green infrastructure for urban regeneration and food security: case studies from the Campania region

A Russo, GT Cirella - Agriculture, 2020 - mdpi.com
Ten identified edible green infrastructure (EGI)-related urban regeneration case studies
within the Campania region, Italy, are explored in relation to local community development …

[HTML][HTML] Heavy metals and metalloids concentrations across UK urban horticultural soils and the factors influencing their bioavailability to food crops

M Crispo, MC Dobson, RS Blevins, W Meredith… - Environmental …, 2021 - Elsevier
Urban horticulture (UH) has been proposed as a solution to increase urban sustainability,
but the potential risks to human health due to potentially elevated soil heavy metals and …

Urban kitchen gardens: effect of the soil contamination and parameters on the trace element accumulation in vegetables–a review

G Bidar, A Pelfrêne, C Schwartz, C Waterlot… - Science of the Total …, 2020 - Elsevier
Trace element contaminants in kitchen garden soils can contribute to human exposure
through the consumption of homegrown vegetables. In urban areas, these soils can be …