Geo-environment and Landscape Evolution: v. 2

Keynote address Towards a truly sustainable future and a high quality of life for all people on our planet: the role of the Earth Sciences Section 1: Environmental planning and management Ethics, geological risks, politics and society; Environmental impact assessment and environmental management plans: an example of an integrated process from the UK; Geological factors in monitoring and planning nature trails at tourist centres in northern Finland; The acoustical improvement plan as a process to re-establish acceptable acoustical conditions; Estimation of the on-farm-costs of soil erosion in Sleman, Indonesia Section 2: Environmental modelling and monitoring Large scale soil erosion modeling for a mountainous watershed; Decreased deposition of sulphate and the responses in soilwater at Estonian integrated monitoring sites 1995-2004; SAKWeb(c) - Spatial Autocorrelation and Kriging Web Service Section 3: Environmental pollution and remediation After treatment of landfill leachate in peat filters; Studies on the distribution of heavy metal Cd in contaminated soils of various particle sizes and removal efficiencies of heavy metal using acid washing; Mitigation of alkaline mine drainage in a natural wetland system; A sequential aerated peat biofilter system for the treatment of landfill leachate; Are crop and range lands being contaminated with cadmium and lead in sediments transported by wind from an adjacent contaminated shallow lake?; The sorption characteristics of PAHs onto soils in the presence of synthetic and bio surfactant; Carbon dioxide sequestration in coal: implications for CO2 disposal and CH4 displacement from coal seams Section 4: Climatological processes Response of dissolved organic carbon in a shallow groundwater ecosystem to a simulated global warming experiment; Regional analysis of climate and bioclimate change in South Italy Section 5: Geo-environment in urban settings The urban geo-science model: an essential tool to support planning and sustainable development; Developing design-oriented strategies to combat regional scale climate change; Land subsidence evolution and controlling mechanisms near Mexico City: environmental planning and management; Stability of slopes of municipal solid waste landfills with co-disposal of biosolids; Section 6: Geoecology Net photosynthetic O2 evolution and calcium precipitation in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii; Dynamics of suspended sediment concentration and the impact on a lake-inhabiting bivalve (Corbicula japonica) in the Abashiri River basin, Hokkaido, northern Japan; Potential of poplar plantation for enhancing Polish farm sustainability Section 7: Hydrological studies Modified quantitative estimation model of erosion and degradation in three mountainous watersheds; Bathymetric curve (75 years old) validation, using the soil erosion transportation at Cuitzeo Lake Watershed; Efficient watershed modeling using a multi-site weather generator for meteorological data; Hydrological modelling for river basin management in a highly hydro-geological conditioned environment; Hydrological modelling of snow cover in the large upper Po river basin: winter 2004 results and validation with snow cover estimation from satellite Section 8: Landscape analysis Spatial correlograms and landscape metrics as indicators of land use changes; The role of geosciences and landscape in the management of Natural Parks of Guadalajara (Central Spain): in search of suitable applications; Exploring the effect of demographic elements on the evaluation of the scenic beauty of various landforms - preliminary results; An approach to the landscape analysis; Evaluation and analysis criteria of the environmental risk factor of the anthropic perturbation in the infrastructure works Section 9: Natural hazards and risks M3 (Monitoring, Management and Mapping) - tool for the solution of the conflict: "people and environment"; Gas hazard: an often neglected natural risk in volcanic areas Section 10: Remote sensing Identification of As-bearing minerals associated with mine wastes from former metalliferous mines in France using laboratory reflectance spectra; Rapid mapping with remote sensing data during flooding 2005 in Switzerland by object-based methods: a case study; Using spatial technology for analyzing disturbed areas and potential site selection in Chihuahua, Mexico; Section 11: Soil and rock properties The pedoecologial conditions of natural and opencast peat fields in Estonia; Monitoring programme for underground rock characterization facility; Geotechnical evaluation of Stabilized Dredged Material (SDM) from the New York/New Jersey Harbor; The impact of soil quality on cocoa yield in Nigeria Section 12: Vulnerability studies Influence of ground water extraction in the seismic hazard of Mexico City; Predicting favourable areas for landsliding through GIS modelling in Aparados da Serra (Brazil)