5. Glossary
Infrastructures vertes; Green infrastructure
Urban environmental buildings designed as interconnected natural spaces to provide multiple ecological functions.
Technosols construits; Constructed Technosol
Result of the human action of intentionally creating a "soil" from artifacts and/or semi-natural materials (e.g. bricks, gravel, sand, fill) selected to create an environment generally intended to be vegetated.
Brownfield site
Contaminated or degraded land that was once used as an industrial or commercial facility, but is no longer in use or operational.
Élément trace métallique; Heavy metals
Toxic metals above a certain threshold, some are radioactive.
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