Chapter 6: The effects of urban expansion on soil health and ecosystem services: an overview -- Introduction -- Direct effects of urban expansion -- Indirect effects of urban expansion -- Urban expansion effects on soil health and ecosystem services -- Restoration and mitigation of direct and indirect effects of urban expansion -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 7: Impact of land take on global food security -- Introduction -- Global food security -- The role of bioenergy crops -- Urban sprawl, urban expansion and land take -- Land grabbing -- Impact of land take on potential agricultural production in Europe -- References -- Chapter 8: Hydrological impact of soil sealing and urban land take -- Introduction -- The ecological consequences of soil sealing -- Impacts on water availability and their mitigation -- Impacts on floods and their mitigation -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 9: Impact of land take and soil sealing on biodiversity -- Introduction -- Impact -- Responses to soil sealing -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 10: Impacts of land take and soil sealing on soil carbon -- Introduction -- Effects of land take on soil organic carbon stock -- Sealing and soil organic carbon stock -- Effects of land take on soil inorganic carbon -- Effects of soil sealing on soil inorganic carbon -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 11: Urban sprawl, soil sealing and impacts on local climate -- Introduction -- The urban heat island -- The heat balance in urban areas -- Profiling urban climate -- Climate and urban form -- Monitoring climate and planning sprawl in urban areas -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 12: Impacts of urban sprawl on landscapes -- Introduction -- The ecological impacts of landscape fragmentation -- The impacts on cultural services -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- PART III: Case studies