Future environmental challenges of the urban protected area Great War Island (Belgrade, Serbia) based on valuation of the pollution status and ecosystem services
| Autor: | Jovana Orlić, Snežana Antonijević, Aleksandra Šajnović, Svetlana Djogo Mračević, Milica Kašanin-Grubin, Snežana Štrbac, Dragana Randjelović |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Pollution
Environmental Engineering media_common.quotation_subject 0208 environmental biotechnology 02 engineering and technology 010501 environmental sciences Management Monitoring Policy and Law 01 natural sciences Ecosystem services Urban planning Environmental protection Metals Heavy Urbanization 11. Sustainability IUCN Red List World War I Waste Management and Disposal Ecosystem 0105 earth and related environmental sciences media_common Islands Pollutant Pollution indices Urban area General Medicine 15. Life on land 6. Clean water 020801 environmental engineering Geography Geochemistry Habitat 13. Climate action Wetlands Protected area Serbia Water Pollutants Chemical Environmental Monitoring |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Environmental Management |
| Popis: | The Great War Island (GWI) is an area of importance for the protection of the environment, cultural and historical heritage of Belgrade, Serbia. According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) this area belongs to the IV category - Habitats and Other Regulated Areas. The main objectives of this paper are to evaluate the potential impacts of pollution on ecosystem services of the Great War Island and to explore different scenarios for future urban development of the Great War Island that will have implication for human well-being. The aims of this paper are set up based on the evaluation of ecosystem services of the Great War Island and assessment of the pollution status of the Great War Island. In order to evaluate pollution status of the GWI inorganic and organic composition of sediments were examined. Additionally, the content of microelements was determined in the leaves of the Salix alba L. Pollution indices indicate that all investigated sampling sites are polluted and correspond to high and very high degree of contamination. Cd and Cu show high to extremely high degree of contamination while Sb has extremely high degree of contamination. Content of As, Co, Cu, Ni and Zn in leaves of Salix alba L. is in sufficient to normal range, while content of Cd is between the sufficient and excessive values generalized for various species. Typical oil distributions of terpanes and steranes and values of the corresponding maturity parameters clearly indicated that the sediments of the GWI, in addition to native organic matter, contained oil pollutants of anthropogenic origin. GWI provides provisioning, regulating, supporting and cultural ecosystem services. In relation to ecosystem services two possible scenarios can be predicted: first - losing the status of a protected area due to urbanization; and the second - increasing the degree of protection by admission into international protection lists. Supplementary material: [http://cherry.chem.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/3845] |
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