Integrated Soil and Sediment Research: A Basis for Proper Protection: Selected Proceedings of the First European Conference on Integrated Research for Soil and Sediment Protection and Remediation (EUROSOL)

Front Matter....Pages i-xxiv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Introduction....Pages 3-4
The European Community and The Environment: The Fifth Action Programme....Pages 5-10
Integrated Soil Research Within The Framework of Agricultural Policy Making....Pages 11-21
River Basins: Sediments as a Key Factor in Policies and Research Programs....Pages 23-36
Soil Protection Concept of The Council of Europe and Integrated Soil Research....Pages 37-47
Front Matter....Pages 49-49
Introduction....Pages 49-50
How to Give Scientific Answers to Political Questions....Pages 51-54
Relevance of Soil-Ph in View of Risk Assessment of Soil Pollution....Pages 55-58
Introducing The’ soil-Life’ and ‘Production Half-Life’ Concepts to Assess the Importance of Soil Quality Deterioration....Pages 59-62
Delayed Effects of Chemicals in Soils and Sediments: “Chemical Time Bombs”....Pages 63-66
Setting Cleanup Goals For Contaminated Sites: Towards a Nationally Consistent Approach in Canada....Pages 67-71
Investigation of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Soils For The Assessment of Soil Potential of Biotransformation....Pages 73-76
The “Observatoire de 1a Qualité des Sols”: an example of ecosystem monitoring....Pages 77-81
Mobilization of Heavy Metals in Soils By Oxidation of Sulphides....Pages 83-84
The Role of Soil Organic Matter in Urban Ecosystems....Pages 85-86
Soil Quality of Urban Ecosystems....Pages 87-88
Target values for soil and groundwater in the Netherlands....Pages 89-90
Assessing of Soil Pollution an Alternative Conception to The Rigid Schedules of Limits....Pages 91-92
Aox-Levels in The River Rhine: 50 Percent of Natural Origin!....Pages 93-95
Natural Production of Chlorinated Organic Compounds in Soil....Pages 96-98
Front Matter....Pages 49-49
The Natural Occurrence of Heavy Metals in Some Common Glacial and Postglacial Deposits From Denmark....Pages 99-101
Soil in Ecosystems or Ecosystems in Soil? Classification of Spatially Nested Ecosystems For Ecosystem Response Modelling....Pages 102-104
Analysis of Contaminated Soils From Different Industrial Sources....Pages 105-106
The Soil Potential Concept - a Method For The Fundamental Evaluation of Soils and Their Protection....Pages 107-109
Corine Information System....Pages 110-111
Canada’s Great Lakes Contaminated Sediment Treatment Technology Program....Pages 112-113
Integrated Environmental Policy Approaches and Their Main Research Needs....Pages 114-115
Front Matter....Pages 117-117
Introduction....Pages 117-117
Patterns of Multilayer Utilization of Land in The South of China....Pages 119-122
Possibilities For an Environmentally-Sound Restructuring of Agriculture in The New BundeslÄnder (2. Communication)....Pages 123-126
Effect of Growing Crops and Crop Residues in Arable Fields on Nematode Production....Pages 127-131
Simulation of Nitrogen Mineralisation Based on Food Web Interactions in Different Soil Ecosystems....Pages 133-136
Effects of Acidification and Repeated Sewage Sludge Application on C Utilization by Soil Microorganisms....Pages 137-139
Nematodes as Indicators of Anthropic Action on Soil....Pages 140-141
Management Induced Changes in Agroecosystems - Aims And Research Approach of The Munich Research Network on Agroecosystems....Pages 142-144
Origin and Distribution of Boron in Soils of The Jordan Rift Valley, Jordan....Pages 145-146
Effects of No-Tillage on Yield and Soil Properties Under Semi-Arid Conditions in Central Spain....Pages 147-148
Slit Ploughing - a Possibility For Bridging Over Soil Layers With High Density Below The Plough Horizon of Loess Soils....Pages 149-150
Front Matter....Pages 151-151
Introduction....Pages 153-154
General Concepts of Soil Quality....Pages 155-170
Front Matter....Pages 151-151
The Influence of Soil and Aquifer Characteristics on The Attenuation in Subsurface Water of Trace Metal and Halogenated Organic Pollutants: Relevance of Local Properties....Pages 171-185
Soil Quality in Relation to Agricultural Uses....Pages 187-200
Defining Soil Quality For Ecosystems and Ecosystem Functioning....Pages 201-211
Front Matter....Pages 213-213
Introduction....Pages 213-214
Effect of Ph on The Bioavailability of Metals in Soils....Pages 215-219
Bioassaying Critical Concentrations of Cadmium in Soil Using Soil Microorganisms....Pages 221-225
Application of Factorial Designs: Estimating The Pollution Potential Inferred From Changes in Soil Water Chemistry....Pages 227-230
Long-Term Management of Sewage Sludge-Amended Soils....Pages 231-234
Managing Bio-Availability: an Effective Element in The Improvement of Biological Soil-Cleaning?....Pages 235-239
Field Test of The Pestla Model For Ethoprophos on a Sandy Soil....Pages 241-245
Mechanisms and Rates of Pesticide Leaching in Shallow Clayey Till....Pages 247-251
Availability of Lead From Pottery Industry in Soil: Risk Assessment....Pages 253-254
Seasonal and Spatial Variation of Heavy Metal Solubilities in A Fallow, Acidic Loamy Sand Soil....Pages 255-256
The Solubility and Plant Availability of Heavy Metals in Soils Contaminated With Industrial Dusts and Sludges....Pages 257-260
Adsorption of Zn By Complexes of Clay/Al-Hydroxide Polymers....Pages 261-262
Bioremediation of Organic Contaminants in Soils: The Role of Sorption Processes.....Pages 263-265
Nutrient and Heavy Metal Dynamics in Decomposing Forest Litter....Pages 266-267
Cyanide in Soils: Speciation and Quality Standards....Pages 268-269
Remediation of Metal-Contaminated Soils: an Assessment of Mobile and Bioavailable Metals in Soil After Treatment With Possible Immobilizing Additives.....Pages 270-271
Using Humus Indices For The Assessment of Soil Quality and Soil Vulnerability....Pages 272-273
Front Matter....Pages 213-213
Heavy-Metal Interactions With Soil Bacteria....Pages 274-275
Partitioning of Heavy Metals in Particle-Size Fractions: a Tool to Predict Metal Mobility and Distribution in The Environment....Pages 276-278
Areal, Profile and Time Differentiation of Heavy Metal Content in Soils in The Vicinity of Copper Smelters in Lgom, Poland....Pages 279-281
The Process of Adsorption-Desorption of Heavy Metals in a Natural and a Contaminated Soil....Pages 282-283
Submicroscopic Investigation of Soils Polluted By Heavy Metals....Pages 284-286
Front Matter....Pages 287-287
Introduction....Pages 287-288
The Swedish Soil Research Programme (Mats): Aims, Preliminary Results, Limitations and Perspectives....Pages 289-293
Evaluation of Different Methods For Measuring Microbial Soil Activity....Pages 295-298
Use of Laboratory Toxicity Tests For The Hazard Assessment of Chemicals to Earthworms Representing The Soil Fauna....Pages 299-302
Secondary Poisoning in a Terrestrial Food Chain; a Probabilistic Approach....Pages 303-307
Simulation of The Effects of Contamination on The Functioning of Belowground Food Webs....Pages 309-312
Evaluation of soil pollutions applying an ecotoxicological assay....Pages 313-314
Protozoan Bioassays of Soil Amended With Sewage Sludge and Heavy Metals Using The Common Soil Ciliate Colpoda Steinii....Pages 315-316
Effects of Soil Spatial Variability on Exposure of Organisms to Contamination....Pages 317-318
Sediment Toxicity Testing: Dutch Methodology Development....Pages 319-320
Front Matter....Pages 321-321
Introduction....Pages 321-322
Investigations on The Revegetation Problems of Landfill Soils in Semiarid Environment....Pages 323-326
Role of Perennial Grasses in Controlling Degradation of Soil Systems in Steppes....Pages 327-331
Integral Water Management in The Catchment of The River Geul....Pages 333-336
Assessment of Soil Vulnerability to Soil Erosion Using Gis and Simulation Models in Catchments in The Netherlands and The United Kingdom....Pages 337-340
Front Matter....Pages 321-321
Ecological Recovery of Some Thermally and Biologically Cleaned Field Soils....Pages 341-344
The Influence of Soil Clean up on the Bioavailability of Heavy Metals for Earthworms and Plants....Pages 345-348
Integrated Characteristics in Soil Bioindication: Case Studies of Chernozem Soil Contamination and Tropical Forest Biodegradation....Pages 349-351
Remaining Pah-Contamination After Microbial Remediation: Why Does it Exist and How to Treat it?....Pages 352-353
Front Matter....Pages 355-355
Introduction....Pages 357-357
The Integral River Basin Approach to Assess the Impact of Multiple Contamination Sources Exemplified by the River Rhine....Pages 359-384
Water and solutes movement in soils: measurements, modelling and perspectives....Pages 385-400
Using Gis-Information to Translate Soil Type Patterns to Agro-Ecosystem Management - The Daisy Model....Pages 401-428
Front Matter....Pages 429-429
Introduction....Pages 429-429
Modelling Spatial Variability of Soil Pollution Variables with Geostatistics for Environmental Purposes....Pages 431-434
Sampling Schemes for Contaminated Soil....Pages 435-439
Impact of Spatial Variability on Transport of Pesticides From Soil Surface to Pumping Well....Pages 441-444
Mapping of Trace Elements in Soils in the Province of Madrid. Sampling Strategies and Analysis of Results.....Pages 445-448
Improving the Efficiency of Soil Sampling on a Regional Scale in Impact Assessment....Pages 449-452
Heavy Metals in Soils After a Long—Term Industrial Fallout: A Case Study Near Turin (Italy)....Pages 453-456
Cadmium and Zinc in the Silt Loam Soils of South Limburg: An Anthropogenic Anomaly....Pages 457-461
Pattern Recognition Methods and the Investigation of the Origin of Harmful Substances in Soils....Pages 463-464
Spatial Variation of Chemicals in Sediments in Small Aquatic Systems....Pages 465-466
The Influence of Soil Variability on the Amount of Nitrogen Leaching to the Groundwater....Pages 467-468
Front Matter....Pages 469-469
Introduction....Pages 469-470
Front Matter....Pages 469-469
Cleaning or Disposal of Contaminated Spoil - Comparison of Environmental Risks and Effects....Pages 471-474
A New Strategy for Managing the Environmental Risks of Abandoned Landfills....Pages 475-479
Soils: A System to Support Decisions on Cleaning-up Polluted Sites....Pages 481-484
Decision Support for Designing Soil Survey Schemes: An Overview of the Decision Problems....Pages 485-486
Expert assessment network on soil protection....Pages 487-488
Conceptual Approach to Managing Sites in Poland Which are Contaminated by Petroleum....Pages 489-491
Front Matter....Pages 493-493
Introduction....Pages 493-493
Aggregation aspects of integrated environmental modelling....Pages 495-498
Soil-Specific Farming: A North American Perspective....Pages 499-502
Expert-N - A Building Block System of Nitrogen Models as Resource for Advice, Research, Water Management and Policy....Pages 503-507
The Application of a Soil Information System in Reallotment Projects....Pages 509-511
The Integration of Soil Classification and Modelling of N-balances with the DAISY model....Pages 512-514
Fuzzy Soil Layer, Profile and Suitability Classification in the Lower Manoi Valley, New South Wales, Australia....Pages 515-517
Environment-Adapted Nutrient Management on Grassland in the AllgÄu....Pages 518-520
Fuzzy Set Theory - A New Concept for Land Suitability Assessment....Pages 521-522
Modeling the Nitrate Flow in the Ground-Water Provinces of West-Germany....Pages 523-527
Front Matter....Pages 529-529
Introduction....Pages 531-531
Microbial Remediation: Strategies, Potentials, and Limitations....Pages 533-544
An Integral Cluster Approach for Containment, Remediation and Monitoring of Groundwater Pollution in Large Industrial Areas....Pages 545-558
Soil Bio Remediation in Practice: Problems and Results....Pages 559-575
Front Matter....Pages 529-529
Natural Rehabilitation Strategies....Pages 577-587
Front Matter....Pages 589-589
Introduction....Pages 589-589
Soil Remediation Studies: An Overview....Pages 591-595
A Combined Remediation Technique for Soil Containing Organic Contaminants: Hydrocyclone Separation, Photochemical Treatment and Bioremediation....Pages 597-600
Development of a Model Soil Bioreactor to Investigate into the Possibilities to Act on Soil Microbial Communities by Steering the Physico-Chemical and Nutritional Environment in Soil....Pages 601-604
Degradation of Oil Sludge by Landfarming -A Case-Study at the Gent Harbour....Pages 605-608
Bioremediation of a sediment pollution with the XENEX system- a practical approach....Pages 609-612
Application of Test Systems for Mass Balance and Optimization of Biological Soil Treatment....Pages 613-616
GranDiff method for assessing the granular differentiation of soils....Pages 617-618
Rate limitations in the biological degradation of oil....Pages 619-620
Treatment of Groundwater Polluted by Iron-Cyanide Complexes....Pages 621-622
Quality of the Bottom Sediment of the Bogged and Shallow Waters of Noorderpark, Utrecht (The Netherlands): Assessment of Toxic and Ecological Effects on the Eco-System....Pages 623-624
Know How in Linking Characterization and Full Scale Soil Washing Installation....Pages 625-627
Heavy Metal Extraction from a Contaminated Dredged Material Using Nta in Combination with Acid Treatment....Pages 628-629
Front Matter....Pages 631-631
Introduction....Pages 631-632
Heavy Metal Contamination of Reclaimed Soils as a Consequence of Liming With Ca - Mg Oxides from a Zinc Smelter....Pages 633-635
Low-emission waste transposition by converting from anaerobic to aerobic decomposition....Pages 637-640
HCH Contamination in the Pyrenees. A Case Study....Pages 641-644
Front Matter....Pages 645-645
Introduction....Pages 645-645
Screening for Pah Degrading White-Rot Fungi: Bjerkandera Sp. Bos55, a Promising New Isolate....Pages 647-651
Front Matter....Pages 645-645
Application of in Situ Bioremediation Techniques Concerning Pah; Applying Nitrate as an Alternative Oxygen Source Demonstrated on Laboratory and Pilot Plant Scale....Pages 653-657
Bioremediation of Contaminated Soils....Pages 659-661
In-Situ Biological Remediation of Groundwater Contaminated with Triazine Pesticides Using the UVB-Technology....Pages 663-667
Model Application for Evaluating Effects of Treatment Scenarios on Microbial Decomposition of Hydrocarbons in Landfarms....Pages 669-672
The Potential for the Use of Metal-Accumulating Plants for the in Situ Decontamination of Metal-Polluted Soils....Pages 673-676
The Distribution of Protozoa in an Organically Contaminated Aquifer....Pages 677-678
Data Collection and Priority List Definition for Hazardous Waste Sites Remediation....Pages 679-681
Influence of Soil Type and Organic Supplements on the Mineralisation of Contaminants....Pages 682-683
Remediation of Oilpolluted Soil by Compost, Compared to the Effect of Other Additives....Pages 684-685
Bioleaching of Zinc-Contaminated Soils with Thiobacilli....Pages 686-687
In Situ Soil Vapour Extraction and on Site Biological Treatment at a Petrol Station....Pages 688-689
Front Matter....Pages 691-691
Introduction....Pages 693-693
Soil Remediation at Schweizerhalle - A Case Study....Pages 695-705
Diapers Recycled as Compost....Pages 713-723
Key-issues in the legislation with respect to soil rehabilitation....Pages 725-732
Soil Clean up in Europe - Feasibility and Costs....Pages 733-753
How Long Will the Soil Feed us?....Pages 755-756
Back Matter....Pages 757-763