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Theme IV-2: Integrated
Environmental Monitoring in Industrial Areas J-P Nordvic, A.C.
Lucia, N. Mitchison
Presentation abstracts
will appear here as soon as possible.
Environmental risk
management is one of the challenges for our modern industrial
society as demonstrated by recent environmental disasters. Environmental
risk evaluation and simulation play an important role in engineering
projects and applications such as underground storage for nuclear
waste disposals, oil, ground water quality, etc. However, reference
data available in the literature for environmental diagnosis,
especially for characterizing fluid transportation, diffusion
or soil/rock interaction, dispersion in ocean are relatively scarce.
The goals of this Session are to cover various aspects of environmental
management including long and short term effects and to foster
a better understanding in risk evaluation procedure. Specific
attention will be paid to the following subjects :
- Remediation of
contaminated soils (toxic metals, PAH, pesticide)
- Coastal remediation
and sea pollution (sewage, industrial rejection, wastes, oil)
- Evaluation of the
fragility of complex ecological systems
- Environmental modeling
and rehabilitation
Modeling contaminant
behavior in the natural environment
- Effect of contaminated
drainage on groundwater quality
- Ecological monitoring
using GIS
Efforts to reduce toxic
emissions reflected in European and national policies are generally
linked to international commitments. Presentations and case studies
on strategies for quality control of water rejections, sewage
and soil pollution in industrial areas are welcome. The balance
between economic development and rational use of natural resources
is of great importance and models based on "favorable" strategy
for contaminant usage in human activity with the minimum possible
ecological damage will be appreciated. This Session is expected
to stimulate discussions on data and knowledge necessary for optimizing
the environmental risk management from the point of view of economics,
ecology and benefit versus cost optimization.
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