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Soils of Urban, Industrial, Traffic, Mining and Military Areas
SUITMA 2000 Essen

SUITMA 2000 Essen
Soils of Urban, Industrial, Traffic, Mining and Military Areas
Start :	July 12 2000 (iCal)
End :	July 18 2000
City :	Essen
Country :	Germany
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The SUITMA 2000 symposium was held in Essen (Germany).

Themes and related abstracts

The Unknown Urban Soil - Detection, Resources and Face

• City management and soils
  • Soils as object of legal protection, by Stepan Poznyak
• Soil heritage in urban areas
  • History of the features of soil science - the Roman time, by György Füleky
  • Rescuing our urban archaelogical soil heritage: a multidisciplinary micro-stratigraphical approach, by Richard MacPhail
  • Soil heritage of the younger residential, industrial and mining history, by Wolfgang Burghardt
• Reports on soil observed in urban sites
  • Anthropogenic landscape and soils due to constructed Vernal Pools, by Terry D. Cook
  • Soil studies under oak phytocenoses in the region of Sofia, by Vanya Doychinova
  • Soil moisture regime at roadside tree pits in Hong Kong, by C.Y. Yim
  • Soils observed in urban sites, by Farzana Panhwar
  • Features of soils in urban and suburban Nanjing and their environmental effect, by Ganlin Zhang
  • The soils of Zielona Gora urban areas. Transformation of thr soils as a result of urbanization processes, by Andrzej Greinert
  • To a question about the urban soil mapping, by Olga Bezuglova
• Methods and examples of field survey
  • Change of natural environment on example Transdanubian settlements in Hungary, by Laszlo Nagyvaradi
  • New York City Soil survey program, by Luis Hernandez
  • The recommendations of the Working Group Urban Soils of the German Soil Science Society for the soil survey instruction of urban, commercial, industrial and mining areas, by Wolfram Kneib and Belinda Bongard
  • Improving the knowledge of urban soil variability by coupling of technics: diagraphy and pressuremeter, by Nathalie Moussouteguy and Denys Breysse
  • Evaluation of soil resources in urban areas, by Dorothea Stasch
  • Determination of dust flux rates and PM10-concentrations on an industrial site, by Silke Hoeke and Wolfgang Burghardt
  • Using of field magnetometry in estimation of urban soil degradation, by Tadeusz Magiera
• Analytical methods and their applicability
  • Beneficial soil arthropds as bio-indicators of human activity across different soil habitats in Warangal urban system, by M. Vikram Redy
  • Extraction of mobile trace elements in 1 M NH4NO3-solution - evaluation of DIN 19730, by Rainer Gryschko
• Classification - soil substrate, soil development, soil use
  • Urbanisation and agriculture, case Tunis, by Mtimet Amor
  • Urban soils in India and their management, by Rao Kalvakuntla
  • Soils of Kisuma urban region: Their characteristics, classification and evaluation of multiple land use, by Victor Da Costa and W.O. Omoto
  • Main trends of the urban pedogenesis, by Victor Targulian
  • Pedogenesis in the urban environment, by Alan Kosse
  • Trends of soil transformation in Warsaw under the influence of anthropogenic factors and classification of soils of the urbanised areas, by Zbigniew Czerwinski
  • Classification of anthropogenic (man-made) soils and substrata, by Svetla Gencheva and Tatjana Kostadinova
  • Urban soils as a special group of soils, by Marina Stroganova and Tatiana Prokovieva
  • Composition and classification of an urban soil, by Ole K. Borggard
  • The program design, mapping, classification, and interpretation of the soils of New York City, by Tyrone Goddard
  • Redoximorphic urban soils, by Hans-Peter Blume
  • The German double tracked concept of classifying soils by their substrate and their natural genesis, by Wolfgang Burghardt
  • Scale depending definition of pedological soil associations of urban areas and their presentation in maps, by Hans-Kurt Siem
  • Classification of urban soils by their neutralization capacity of acids, by Dieter A. Hiller
  • Structural and functional composition of micro-flora of urban and mining site soils and substrata, by Maya Nusturova, Svetla Gencheva and Mihaela Myashkova
• Relationships of soil use and history to soil features and development
  • Human impact in the giant sequoia groves of Yosemite National Park, USA, by Kerry Arroues
• Man-made materials, their features and quality as soils
  • Biomutans floris as a substitute for peat and compost in technical soil, by Helmut Hauser and Dietmar Matthies
  • The amendment of Leptososls with urban wastes for crops and vegetable production in the area of Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso), by Lamourdia Thiombiano
  • Characterisation of deposited blast furnance sludge as plant growth site, by Tim Mansfeld
  • Hydraulic properties of urban soils, by Rainer Horn
  • Chemical processes in soils on artificial materials: silicate dissolution, occurrence of amorphous silica and zeolites, by Daniela Sauer

Application of soil information

• Communal and industrial sludge and waste
  • Mobilisation of heavy metals in soils on a former sewage treatment form, by Bernd Marschner
  • Inspection of urban roads made with municipal solid waste incinerator bottom ash, by Denis François
• Storm-water infiltration, ground-water recharge, drainage, irrigation
  • Storm wate-infiltration practice in Australia - assessing soil and groundwater impacts, by Pamela Hazelton
  • The concept of storm water infiltration, by Guido Winzig, Jens Tueselmann and Wolfgang Burghardt
  • Reducing the effects of storm-water runoff with porous pavement, by John J. Sloan
  • Road stone layers as retention reservoir for storm water discharge, by Werner Richwien
  • Comparison of methods to determine the infiltration rate of soils, by Thilo Herrman
  • The ‘Beetinfiltrometer’, a device for the determination of storm water infiltration rates, by Jens Tueselmann, Guido Winzig, Oliver Steinberg and Wolfgang Burghardt
• Vegetable garden areas, food supply
  • Estimating dietary risk from soils in urban gardens, by Joyce Mack Scheyer
  • Soil and vegetable quality under city effluent irrigation, by Manzoor Quadir
• Green areas, park and urban forest
  • Chemical and physical characterisation of established garden soils in the urban area of Pisa, Italia, by Roberto Pini
  • Characterisation, control, and follow up, of qualities of physical properties of reconstituted anthropegenic soils for green areas, by Jean-Pierre Rossignol
  • Suitability of urban demolition soils in Sheffield for wild flower meadows, by Francesca Bretzel and James Hitchmough
  • Establishment of urban woodlands and inner city green areas on artificial soils – physical problems and analysis of man-made soils, by Barbara Wittman and Dietmar Matthies
• Playground and sport fields
  • Construction of soils from green-fields at the former airport Fornebu, Oslo, Norway, by Trond Knap Haraldsen
  • Playgrounds and sport fields: an engineering approach and a groundsman's approach to the establishment of good quality sport fields, by Piet Van Deventer
• City planning
  • Use of soil survey data in planning urban areas, by Ranjith Mapa
  • The role of soils in sustainable urban land use planning in Nakuru Town, Kenya, by Victor Da Costa and W. O. Omoto
  • Soil information - a key to better town, road, mining planning? A challenge to developing world – a case of Tanzania, by Pitio Ndyeshumba
  • Soil-science date for sustainable urban planning – examples from the test sites Oberhausen/Ruhr-Area and Krefeld/Lower Rhine Basin, by Walter-Götz Schraps and Hans Baumgarten
  • Urban geochemestry in Norwegian cities – pollution, sources, health risk evaluation and practical consequences, by Rolf Tore Ottesen

The soil quality and problems: what shall we do?

• Quality of urban soils
  • Pollutants in urban soils from Bucharest, by Radu Lacatusu
  • Urban geochemistry of the City of Oslo, by Laurentius Tijhuis and Björge Brattli
  • Heavy metal contamination of surface soils in the City of Trondheim, by Eilivl Steinnes
  • The assessment of soil functions according to the German Federal soil protection law(BBodSchG) at the example of Saarbrücken City, by Karl Dieter Fetzer and Jochen Kubinjok
  • Mobility of Pb and Zn in a polluted soil from road environment – results from column experiments, by Carole Delmas
  • Soil organic matter in urban soils, by Lothar Beyer
  • Microbial biomass and activity in soils developed on man-made substrates, by Galina Machulla
  • Soil temperature variations in landscape planters in Hong Kong, by C. Y. Yim
  • Substrate dependence of contamination in urban soils of Berlin – results from a data bank, by Beate Mekiffer
  • Peculiarities of radio-nuclides migration in the urban soils, by Elena Kvasnikova
• Soil protection and soil as biotop/pedotop
  • Urbanisation, industrialisation and the multifunctionality of soils, by Winfried Blum
  • Pedotopes as an instrument for soil protection in urban areas, by Jens Tueselmann
  • Mycological properties of urban soils, by Olga Marfenina
• Soil degradation (chemical, physical, biological)
  • The main sources of chemical degradation of soil in urban areas, by Zygmund Strzyszcz
  • Yaounde urban soil degradation, by Emile Temgoua
  • The humus stage of urban soils in the steppe zone of South Russia, by Sergey Gorbov
  • Result of long-term research on contribution of micro organisms communities of soils to the environmental safety of towns in Sibiria, and Novosibirsk in particular, by Sergeevna Artamonova
  • Heavy metals in urban area of City Lodz, by Jozef Chojnici
  • Pollution of cities by heavy metals as a system and its evolution, by Boris Gradusov
  • The ecological estimation of urbolandscape under the contents of heavy metals in soil-plant system, by Leysa Bortnik
  • Chemical degradation of soils around industrial area : a case study, by Satis Kumar Singh
  • Soil potential changes in the area of copper mining, example from Bor, Yugoslavia, by Zeljko Bulajic
  • Water and soil contamination in the Pecs-Komlo coal mining area (Southern Transdanubia/Hungary), by Denes Loczy, Szabolcs Czigany and Ervin Pirkhoffer
• Soil remediation
  • Minimising the risk of heavy metal exposure freom contaminated soils by reducing bioavailability using sorptive minerals and selected vegetable varieties, by Brian Alloway
  • Mitigating lead pollution in urban soils, by Salah Tahoun and El-Sayed Abdel Bary
  • Biostabilisation of heavy metals in arable soils by means of fibre and oil crops cultivated on areas adjacent to a copper smelter, by Witold Grzebisz
• Specific problems of industrial sites
  • The concentration of Pb in industrial effluents and soils in a battery factory in Tanzania, by J.J. Msaky
  • The dynamics of lead, zinc and cadmium at historic lead-zinc mining sites, by Brian Alloway
  • Specific properties and connected analytical problems of soils derived from industrial dust in surroundings of a blast furnace and two different foundries, by Maria Kuylaars and Christian Kuylaars
  • Soil enzymes and soil microbial activity as indicators of soil quality in the urbanistic soils, by Iryna Shpakivska
  • Soil and land remediation in surroundings of nuclear power station Mochovce (Slovakia), by Jaroslava Sobocka
• Specific problems of traffic sites (sealing, de-icing, wetting, emissions, road, railway, airport, harbour)
  • Pollution of soils from road and traffic sources: total contents and transfer mechanism evaluation along two French highways, by Michel Legret
  • Leaching of highway derived contaminants, by Marina Bergen Jensen
  • Seepage water and heavy metal transport in road side soils, by Birgit Kocher, Gerd Wessolek and Heiner Stoffregen
  • Autogene minerals of anthropogenic soils horizons in Moscow, by Alexsey Kazdym
  • Roads - El-Nino, by Mariano Calero Meri
  • Salt content and retention in roadside soils of Quebec, by François Courcuesne
  • Problems of anthropogenic salinazation of urban soils in Moscow, by Galina Chenousenko
  • City trees regulation of metabolism under the influence of the anthropogenic salinization, by Marina Skripnikova
  • Characteristics of soils of a railway marshalling yard in the heavy industry area of Duisburg, by Dieter A. Hiller, Volker Jessen, Thomas Köppner, Rainer Stenpass and Wolfgang Burghardt
• Specific problems of mining sites
  • Technogenic soils of coal mining sites in Southern Brazil, by Nestor Kämpf
  • Specific processes in mine soils in post reclaimed period, by Husnija Resolovic
  • Man-made landscape around gold mines in South Africa: quality of existing material and future land use, by Piet Van Deventer
  • Governing factors of soil development on As-Pb enriched tailings of a former gold mine (La Petite Faye-France), by Catherine Neel
  • Development of element cycles of post-mining sites, by Wolfgang Schaaf
  • Chemical and biological properties of technogenic dumps of the surface mining areas in Western Ukraine, by Oksana Maryskevych
  • Restoration of soils of coal mining areas using pig slurry in semiarid mediterraneum environments, by Rosa Poch
  • Application of organic waste materials for agricultural recultivation on mine soils in eastern Germany -effects on soil chemical properties, by Michael Haubold-Rosar and Joachim Katzur
  • Application of organic waste materials for agricultural recultivation on mine soils in eastern Germany - effects on soil microbial properties and the establishment of earthworms, by Christoph Emmerling, Liebner C. Trier, Michael Haubold-Rosar and Joachim Katzur

The international scientific committee

• Paola Adamo, Italy
• Brian Alloway, United Kingdom
• Olga Bezuglova, Russia
• Hans-Peter Blume, Germany
• Wolfgang Burghardt, Germany
• Victor Da Costa, Kenya
• Alan Kosse, United States
• Olga Marfenina, Russia
• Jean-Louis Morel, France
• Joyce Mack Scheyer, United States
• Walter-Goetz Schraps, Germany
• Jaroslava Sobocka, Slovakia
• Zygmunt Strzyszcz, Poland
• Salah Tahoun, Egypt
• Ganlin Zhang, China