It is the fifth time for The Research and Supervisory Centre of Underground Mining Co. Ltd in Lędziny and Institute for Ecology of Industrial Areas in Katowice to organise the International Conference Innovative Solutions For Revitalization Of Degraded Areas organized from 5th to 7th October in Ustroń. The conference will be devoted to natural and landscape, technological and engineering, design and planning, economical, financial and social aspects of revitalisation of degraded areas.

We welcome academia, R&D units, state and private organizations as well as local governments involved in the process of revitalization of degraded areas, particularly post-industrial sites, i.e. local and regional authorities, site owners, companies dealing with soil and groundwater remediation and land reclamation, construction companies, experts, consultants, financial institutions, and insurance companies from Poland and abroad.

THEMATIC SCOPE

• Biological restoration of post-industrial sites

• Technical and biological aspects of degraded areas cleanup

• Research methods used at different stages of remediation processes: sites
  qualification for remediation, remediation effectiveness assessment and after-remediation monitoring

• Remediation of soil and water environment at contaminated sites with special focus on attenuation processes

• Revitalisation of natural and regulated rivers and river basins

• Recommended and proven remediation technologies

• Examples of best practices in the remediation and revitalisation efforts of post industrial and post-mining sites, landfill sites well as water reservoirs

• Innovative cleanup approaches: green remediation

• Health implications of degraded areas redevelopment

• Public involvement in remediation and revitalisation processes

• Revitalisation of degraded areas in the aspect of urban policy

• Revitalisation tools for urban and industrial sites

The Conference will be initiated by a Special Session “Tools for identification of main sources of underground water contamination”. During the session the following advanced technical and operational tools will be presented: application of passive sampling in contamination assessment of water environment, integral groundwater investigation (Integral Pumping Tests), environmental forensics and isotopic fingerprinting, backtracking and contaminant transport modelling and environmental and health risk assessment.

DEADLINES:

For participants
Registration of participants - 27 September 2011
Promotion application - 27 September 2011

For authors
The term for sending full texts was extended - 30 August 2011


PROMOTION:

• Promotion of companies in conference materials

• Promotion paper

• Promotion stand (2 m², additional space for negotiation)
   

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