Urban Soils

Dr Andrew Rate has worked at The University of Western Australia since 1995 after postgraduate training in chemistry and soil chemistry in New Zealand. He has published research relating to geochemistry in multiple areas, including estuaries, mineral exploration, mine rehabilitation, analytical chemistry, hydrology, mineralogy, agriculture, and urban contamination. Dr Rate’s main areas of teaching and research are currently in Environmental Geochemistry. His present areas of research activity and publication are centered around understanding the behaviour of trace and rare-earth elements in Earth-surface environments, soils and sediments in urban environments, and acid sulfate soils.

• 1. Urban Ecosystems: Soils and the Rise and Fall of Cities.- 2. Formation and Properties of Urban Soils.- 3. Spatial Variability and Data Analysis in Urban Soils.- 4. Urban Soil Functions.- 5. Urban Soil Physics.- 6. Inorganic Contaminants in Urban Soils.- 7. Organic Contaminants in Urban Soils.- 8. Soil Biological Processes in Urban Soils.- 9. Urban Soil as a Source and Sink.- 10. Urban Soil and Human Health.- 11. Urban Soil Remediation.- 12. The Future of Urban Soils.