Air, Water and Soil Quality Modelling for Risk and Impact Assessment

Environmental pollution is a global problem, requiring substantial effort to develop and apply efficient measures of control, mitigation and abatement. Most environmental quality models focus on selected isolated parts of the geo-system, although impacts on one compartment usually also affect others. There is a strong need to advance to an integral treatment of air, soil and water pollution by combining different models for different media. To support mitigation and abatement measures in an optimal way, it is imperative to develop and apply modern methods of control theory to environmental risk assessment.

Like the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on which it is based, Air, Water and Soil Quality Modelling for Risk and Impact Assessment aims to further environmental compartment modelling and applications of control theory to environmental management. The articles of these proceedings provide an overview of ongoing research in the assessment of environmental risks and impacts. Besides issues of practical application, the articles address questions of forward and inverse modelling, integrated treatment of environmental changes and economic impacts, as well as aspects of the future development of numerical environmental modelling.

Scientists working in the field of environmental modelling, numerical modelling, risk and emergency analysis, environmental planning and policy, climate research, geo-system research