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Increasing awareness of the irreversible and long-lasting impacts of deterioration and pollution of soils and sediments has had an important influence on environmental policies and research in the last decade. The complexity of the soil and sediment systems and its processes cannot be tackled properly unless scientists from different disciplines work together. With this in mind, a number of multidisciplinary soil research programmes have been started in various European countries. They involve different disciplinary approaches and they aim at different fields of application: agriculture, land use and town and country planning, drinking water supply, nature management. The results that are now appearing need to be integrated in a scientifically sound and useful way. The first European Conference on Integrated Research for Soil and Sediment Protection and Remediation was intended to foster this.
The volume contains the edited and selected proceedings of this Conference.
List of contents
Preface. Introduction. I: Soil and Policies and the Need for Integrated Soil Research. Setting standards in relation to reference values, agricultural use, building activities, remediation. Integrated soil research for low input agriculture. II: Assessment of Soil Quality and Soil Vulnerability. Speciation and bioavailability. Soil ecotoxicity testing. Rehabilitation and erosion management. III: Approaches in Integrated Soil Research. Spatial interpolation in relation to soil contamination. Decision support system. Farming by soil: using information systems for site-specific fertilization. IV: Managing Problems of Soil and Sediment Pollution. Ex situ soil and sediment treating by physico-chemical, thermal and multiple treatment. Isolation, containment and hydrogeochemical management of contaminated sites. In situ soil and sediment treatment (air and groundwater stripping/flushing combined with biorestoration). V: Soil Quality: Burden or Business Opportunity. Index.
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`It is highly recommended for users, administrators, industrial managers, farmers, leaders of research projects, policy makers and politicians.'
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